Rémi Courtillon
Principal Product Designer & Design System Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Managment of two production-ready design systems (achieving 100% front-end adoption) and creating "ready-to-dev" experiences for Vente-unique.com and Habitat France, operating across 16 countries.Founder of Roadmapped (in-repo AI project management), Aldo Reborn (macOS photo book layout software), and Trinil (a library of 1,055 icons released across five frameworks)—three products launched in 2026.Passionate analog film photographer: handling in-house developing, scanning, and printing.
Work experience
Founder - Design Engineer
Open Negative Initiative
Aug 2026 - Present
3 months
Remote
• Open Source film photography MacOS app • SwiftUI and Apple CoreImage stack • Home-made SwiftUI design System
Lead Product Designer & Design System Manager
Habitat
Feb 2024 - Present
2 years 9 months
Paris, France
• Creation of the design system, 100% adoption by the front-end dev team • Redesign of multiple key User Flows (Catalog, Product page, Add to cart, Cart, Delivery, Payment) with positive e-commerce statistical and performance outcome every time. • Management of a product designer
Product & Brand Designer
Freelance
Nov 2022 - Present
4 years
Paris, France
• Website creation and redesign • Solving UX and UI problems for small businesses • Helping with interaction design and marketing material • Motion design for ads
vente-unique.com
Feb 2024 - Present
2 years 9 months
Paris, France
Lead Product Designer & Design System Manager
Mar 2025 - Present
1 year 8 months
Paris, France
• Two design systems built from scratch (~250 components, 150 variables, semantic tokens), WCAG-conformant, adopted by 100% of the 4 front-end devs, ~80% of production covered. Component docs written in code. Actively curated: ~30 components deleted when Figma slots made them redundant • Main product redesign, 100+ pages and features owned from scoping through pre-prod QA with the engineers → −14% checkout abandonment, +8% product page conversion, +27% catalogue click-through (before/after, measured by the Data team) • Delivery speed on a small feature: a year before the design system, two weeks after. Four consuming teams: web, studio, CRM, branding
UX UI Designer & Design Systems Specialist
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 2 months
Paris, France
• Founded the design practice of an 18-year-old e-commerce company: from Illustrator and Photoshop to Figma, design systems and Vue.js in 18 months. Hired and now mentor a product designer • Creation of an internal multilingual (16) Marketing Campaign Asset Generation Tool for the design team. Went from 14h to 15min to generate all assets for an ad campaign. Facilitated the creation of aproximatively 240.000 assets/year.
Art Director
ContentsquareFreelance
Nov 2022 - May 2023
7 months
Paris, France
• Pre-sales design for key accounts (L'Oréal, Schneider, Roland-Garros), marketing visuals, layout of UX and Performance reports • Marketing and branding material
Junior Art Director
Contentsquare
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
• llustration systems, brand patterns and typography for the 2021 rebrand, with the Lead Art Director
Book Layout Designer
Studio Bigot
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
2 months
35135 Chantepie, France
• High-end Photography Book layouts for high profile kown french photographers
Cashier
Cora France
Feb 2016 - Jul 2020
4 years 6 months
35740 Pacé, France
• Student job - Alongside my Design studies
Education
LISAA - L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués
Master 1 (M1), Direction artistique & numérique
2021 - 2022
1 year 2 months
LISAA - L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués
Bachelor's degree, Design graphique
2018 - 2021
3 years 1 month
LISAA - L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués
Mise à niveau en arts appliqués, Design et arts appliqués
2018 - 2019
1 year 1 month
collège lycée la providence
Baccalauréat, Économique et Social
2016 - 2018
2 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Art Director (Left at the 4th year for a major professional design contract)
Issued: Jun 2022
Portfolio
Trinil: 1055 open-source icons, 800 of them redrawn after a grid pivot
Aldo Reborn: the app that prints zines and works out the imposition for you
