INTERIM DESIGN LEADERSHIP
Need an Interim Head of Design,
while you hire your next leader?
Hiring always takes longer than expected. Do not let your design team morale, quality and speed take a hit in the meantime.
- Founder + Designer
- 15+ years designing complex B2B products - accounting, HR, data...
- Multiplier approach
- I measure success by how little the team needs me by the end.
- HCI Background
- Strong product and systems thinking, Information Architecture and Usability.
- Human-first leader
- The best design work comes from teams who feel safe enough to fail.
Why me
I had amazing mentors and coaches and it made all the difference
Visit my LinkedIn profile for more details→
How it works
I manage your product design team, while you hire a new leader
I step in part-time as your Interim Head of Design: running the team, providing feedback to keep the quality bar high, and interviewing design candidates (leaders or ICs).
If someone in the team is ready to be your next leader, I'll say so
I can provide 1:1 coaching until they are ready, and after, so they have the right support.
I hand over a team that's already used to being led well
When your permanent leader arrives, I onboard them and hand over notes, context and decisions so they can hit the ground running on month one.
What is included
Flexible hours and scope, shaped around what's most pressing
- 01Design quality — reviews and critiques
- 02Team health — morale, cohesion and culture
- 03People management — 1:1s and performance conversations
- 04Hiring — interviewing candidates for leaders and ICs
No lock-in fees
Immediate start
Flexible number of hours per week.
Min 3 months
After that, adjust hours or cancel anytime.
Starting at
€4,000/month
“She's able to go deep in the weeds AND think at a high level — which means she's able to bring so much to the team.”
“She managed to work both wide and deep. The project required a lot of mental capacity, and critical, out-of-the-box thinking. Elena delivered both.”
“Elena's most impactful strength is her ability to take several steps back, look at a problem in a new light, structure it, and come up with entirely new solutions.”
“Elena's pushes for us to think differently about a topic have often helped us deliver much better experiences significantly sooner.”
“Elena sets a high bar for the user experience and deeply cares about the needs of customers. She finds the right pragmatic balance between aiming for a stellar experience and ensuring a steady pace of improvements.”
“Elena demonstrated a unique ability to synthesise complex requirements from multiple areas into holistic, technically feasible solutions that met the needs of customers across different segments.”
“Elena is an absolutely superb manager and designer. She has a fantastic way of pushing for the best possible solution for users, challenging us to rethink accepted patterns to ensure we're delivering the best experience in the most efficient ways.”
“Her insights into what projects are running across the organisation, and her ability to connect dots between roadmaps of various teams, allowed us to identify potential bottlenecks and misalignments before they became problems.”
“Elena found the right altitude enabling her team to execute while providing enough support to resolve blockers and unexpected discoveries in a timely manner.”
“Her deep understanding of the team, the space we work in, and what's happening across the organisation has helped us push forward and deliver value, even when things felt pretty hard.”
LET'S TALK
Got a design leadership gap?
I'm here and ready to support
Just tell me about your situation and what needs holding together.
