Pantea Salmassi

Product Design Lead

Salary / Daily rate

Bordeaux, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyFigmaUser ResearchUX Product DesignDesign ThinkingDesign SystemUI Product Design

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Driving impactful design strategies that enhance user satisfaction and fuel business growth, while remaining hands-on in crafting scalable products and delivering measurable outcomes. Experienced in leading design within cross-functional teams across B2C and B2B environments.

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Work experience

Principale product designer

SwileFreelance

Feb 2025 - Present

1 year 9 months

Remote

Product Design Lead

Hopper

Aug 2022 - Present

4 years 3 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Leading Design in the Payments & Fraud team. Drove an increase in user engagement Unify the checkout experience across the app B2B2C Design owner for Hopper Partners (HTS) - Checkout as a service

Design Mentor - Head Master - Coaching

Freelance

Feb 2018 - Present

8 years 9 months

France · On-site

- Coaching designers - Speaker at French design week / Le Wagon / Friends of Figma - Design Teacher at Strate school of design - Product Bootcamp teacher at Join Maestro and Noé

Product Design Manager

Heroes Jobs

Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

1 year 10 months

France · Remote

As a first designer I help building the product design culture at Heroes. - Creation of the discovery phase - Creation of the very first design system - Put in place the culture of testing and design iterations - Management of the design team (Full time employee and freelancers) We are now looking to grow the team with new product and design team members.

Senior Designer

BlaBlaCar

Apr 2019 - Oct 2020

1 year 7 months

Paris, France

Design owner of supply projects: Driver's experience Design Lead of BlaBlaHelp app

Product Designer

TheFork, a TripAdvisor company

Dec 2016 - Mar 2019

2 years 4 months

Paris, France

- Actor of User Research for the b2c side (interviews, guerilla tests, usability test etc). No design was tested before my arrival and today this became something usual (big personal win) - Design owner of the new mobile web platform - Improved the booking conversion rate: +12% of bookings

Interaction Designer / User Experience Designer

PayPal

Oct 2014 - Dec 2016

2 years 3 months

San Jose, CA, USA

Create . Experiences . Customers . Love . Part of the P2P team: In charge of the Send and Request money flow. - Design spot award 2015 for goods and services abuse prevention plan. - Customer champion spot award 2016

UX/UI Designer

Renault Group

Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

7 months

Technocentre Guyencourt

Designer at the I-DESIGN Lab UX / UI design project for R-link ( Eco-driving part ) and another systeme for 2014. Work about HMI inside of Renault's car ( dashboards and in-vehicle systems ). Project made in a team with graphics designers and ergonomist.

Interaction designer / UX designer

Groupe Crédit Agricole

Apr 2010 - Oct 2010

7 months

Région de Paris, France

I worked at the innovation pole of Crédit Agricole. Our project was" What is the bank future ? " considering all the new technologies that would work in ten years. We also worked on a team with the Microsoft Surface table. Our project was to integrate the Surface table in the bank. We designed program application's interfaces for a bank use. We also inaugurate the Technolab.


Education

Strate, Ecole de Design

Master 2 Designer Industriel

2007 - 2012

5 years 2 months


Licenses & certifications

Développer son leadership

Issued: Aug 2020

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