Andreas Grünewald

Strategic UX Designer & Design Lead

Experience

My Work

About Me

Contact

Are you looking for a guy in UX, 6.1’, brown eyes?

10+ years experience, 10+ clients, strategic design leader dedicated to simplify complexity

[ Secret Client ]

CV

Senior UX Consultant, Associate Manager, Mentor and Community driver

Netlight Consulting

August 2016 – ongoing

Serves as a senior expert in UX and Product Design for complex financial and business environments. Combines high-level consulting with a deep commitment to organizational growth, mentorship, and the evolution of the internal design community.

 

9 years of consulting within UX design, focusing on complex ecosystems, tools and services.

5 years of mentoring and personnel responsibility.

7 years of coaching and guiding colleagues.

Driver of design community and sales representative towards potential clients.

Lead UX Designer

Scania

October 2024 – December 2025

Led a design strategy and overhaul of the highest-traffic page (>200k visits/month) with focus on platform scalability, ecosystem integration, responsiveness, and design system usage.

Conceptualised new routing feature through close collaboration with Traton architects, back and front end developers and PO’s.

Coached and mentored colleagues in UX copy writing and user communication patterns.

See my work

Project Manager, Product Owner

Netlight Consulting

September 2023 – December 2024

Spearheaded the translation of new brand assets and guidelines into a new digital brand direction for Netlight and new design system.

Project manager for the full project lifecycle of defining, creating and delivering a new public web for all of Netlight, based on an intuitive CMS for ease of use for sales, recruitment, brand and marketing.

Oversaw up to three teams of PO’s, developers, designers consisting of available consultants. At delivery over 70 people had been engaged in building the project.

See my work

Design Lead, Senior UX Designer

Qliro Group

October 2023 - May 2024

Led end-to-end design update of payment management pages for app and web. Spearheaded design system update and translation tool implementation to improve localisation, legibility, accessibility and user control.

Led a research team through comprehensive guerilla testing with 80+ participants in Oslo and Copenhagen to understand and improve pay later conversion.

Unified design team by increasing collaboration, critiques and shared knowledge bases. Initiated strategic design discussion and long-term visions.

UX Lead, Senior UX Designer

Secret client within Private Equity

January 2022 - September 2023

Oversaw a complete UI transformation, design system update, and new navigation architecture when updating the investor portal’s brand and identity.

Worked closely with business owners and stakeholders to align design goals with product strategy and roadmaps.

Established tracking and feedback loops by implementing Google Analytics 4 and HotJar, conducted usability testing for feature validation.

NDA protected

Design Lead, Senior UX Designer

Zettle by PayPal

January 2020 - December 2021

Spearheaded the end-to-end design for account migrations for Zettle and PayPal accounts. Conducted several user interviews, testing and closed beta releases to ensure a good release.

Worked closely with senior leadership from Zettle and PayPal, working with individuals in India, Sweden, Netherlands and USA.

Acted as stakeholder and representative towards marketing and other affected product teams.

See my work

Other clients

Swedbank Pay

December 2019

  • Brilliant Future - Design LeadFeb 19 - Nov 19
  • Nordnet - Lead UX DesignerDec 16 - Nov 18
  • PwC, Onify, AiSpot - UX DesignerSep 16 - Nov 16
  • Spotify - UX Designer, Master theisJan 16 - Jun 16

Skills

Design Leadership & Strategy

 

  • Aligns roadmaps with business and user goals
  • Unifies teams through shared knowledge and goals
  • Facilitates stakeholder alignment
  • Guides discovery to production launch

Consulting & Business Development

 

  • Drives UX value in sales meetings
  • Leads professional design networks
  • Conducts technical interviews and screenings for recruitment
  • Provides finance sector subject expertise

Complex Interaction Design

 

  • Designs intricate and complex user journeys
  • Maps technical data to interfaces
  • Establishes robust interaction patterns
  • Optimizes complex navigation architecture

Mentorship & Coaching

 

  • Mentors junior to senior consultants.
  • Coaches cross-functional leadership profiles.
  • Supports sustainability and burnout recovery.
  • Drives high design quality standards.

UX Reseach & Optimization

 

  • Conducts international field testing.
  • Implements analytics and feedback loops.
  • Validates data-driven user stories.
  • Ensures quality through user testing.

Design Operations & Systems

 

  • Maintains web and app design systems
  • Streamlines agile development workflows
  • Sets localization and naming standards

Soft skills

 

  • Career Mentorship & Coaching (GROW, NOPRA)
  • Design and Team Leadership
  • Change Management
  • Product Strategy and Roadmapping
  • Design Governance
  • Stakeholder Management
  • User Interviewing
  • Client interviewing
  • Technical Recruitment Interviewing
  • Agile Development
  • Requirement Gathering

Tools

 

  • Figma (Design, Make, FigJam, Sites)
  • ChatGPT Enterprise (custom GPTs, design critique, copywriting)
  • Google Gemini (Custom Gems, personal projects, image creation)
  • Lovable, Vercel v0
  • Miro / Mural
  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Paper, Pen and Whiteboards

 

Mentorship & Coaching

 

  • Mentors junior to senior consultants.
  • Coaches cross-functional leadership profiles.
  • Supports sustainability and burnout recovery.
  • Drives high design quality standards.

Education

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden – 2011-2016

Master of Science in Interaction Design and Technology

Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea – fall 2014

Various courses, exchange semester

Languages

Swedish (native)

English (fluent)

Andreas Grünewald

Strategic UX Designer & Design Lead

Experience

My Work

About Me

Contact

Are you looking for a guy in UX, 6.1’, brown eyes?

10+ years experience, 10+ clients, strategic design leader dedicated to simplify complexity

[ Secret Client ]

CV

Senior UX Consultant, Associate Manager, Mentor and Community driver

Netlight Consulting

August 2016 – ongoing

Serves as a senior expert in UX and Product Design for complex financial and business environments. Combines high-level consulting with a deep commitment to organizational growth, mentorship, and the evolution of the internal design community.

 

9 years of consulting within UX design, focusing on complex ecosystems, tools and services.

5 years of mentoring and personnel responsibility.

7 years of coaching and guiding colleagues.

Driver of design community and sales representative towards potential clients.

Lead UX Designer

Scania

October 2024 – December 2025

Led a design strategy and overhaul of the highest-traffic page (>200k visits/month) with focus on platform scalability, ecosystem integration, responsiveness, and design system usage.

Conceptualised new routing feature through close collaboration with Traton architects, back and front end developers and PO’s.

Coached and mentored colleagues in UX copy writing and user communication patterns.

See my work

Project Manager, Product Owner

Netlight Consulting

September 2023 – December 2024

Spearheaded the translation of new brand assets and guidelines into a new digital brand direction for Netlight and new design system.

Project manager for the full project lifecycle of defining, creating and delivering a new public web for all of Netlight, based on an intuitive CMS for ease of use for sales, recruitment, brand and marketing.

Oversaw up to three teams of PO’s, developers, designers consisting of available consultants. At delivery over 70 people had been engaged in building the project.

See my work

Design Lead, Senior UX Designer

Qliro Group

October 2023 - May 2024

Led end-to-end design update of payment management pages for app and web. Spearheaded design system update and translation tool implementation to improve localisation, legibility, accessibility and user control.

Led a research team through comprehensive guerilla testing with 80+ participants in Oslo and Copenhagen to understand and improve pay later conversion.

Unified design team by increasing collaboration, critiques and shared knowledge bases. Initiated strategic design discussion and long-term visions.

UX Lead, Senior UX Designer

Secret client within Private Equity

January 2022 - September 2023

Oversaw a complete UI transformation, design system update, and new navigation architecture when updating the investor portal’s brand and identity.

Worked closely with business owners and stakeholders to align design goals with product strategy and roadmaps.

Established tracking and feedback loops by implementing Google Analytics 4 and HotJar, conducted usability testing for feature validation.

NDA protected

Design Lead, Senior UX Designer

Zettle by PayPal

January 2020 - December 2021

Spearheaded the end-to-end design for account migrations for Zettle and PayPal accounts. Conducted several user interviews, testing and closed beta releases to ensure a good release.

Worked closely with senior leadership from Zettle and PayPal, working with individuals in India, Sweden, Netherlands and USA.

Acted as stakeholder and representative towards marketing and other affected product teams.

See my work

Other clients

Swedbank Pay

December 2019

  • Brilliant Future - Design Lead - Feb 19 - Nov 19
  • Nordnet - Lead UX Designer – Dec 16 - Nov 18
  • PwC, Onify, AiSpot - UX Designer – Sep 16 - Nov 16
  • Spotify - UX Designer, Master theis – Jan 16 - Jun 16

Skills

Design Leadership & Strategy

 

  • Aligns roadmaps with business and user goals
  • Unifies teams through shared knowledge and goals
  • Facilitates stakeholder alignment
  • Guides discovery to production launch

Consulting & Business Development

 

  • Drives UX value in sales meetings
  • Leads professional design networks
  • Conducts technical interviews and screenings for recruitment
  • Provides finance sector subject expertise

Complex Interaction Design

 

  • Designs intricate and complex user journeys
  • Maps technical data to interfaces
  • Establishes robust interaction patterns
  • Optimizes complex navigation architecture

Mentorship & Coaching

 

  • Mentors junior to senior consultants.
  • Coaches cross-functional leadership profiles.
  • Supports sustainability and burnout recovery.
  • Drives high design quality standards.

UX Reseach & Optimization

 

  • Conducts international field testing.
  • Implements analytics and feedback loops.
  • Validates data-driven user stories.
  • Ensures quality through user testing.

Design Operations & Systems

 

  • Maintains web and app design systems
  • Streamlines agile development workflows
  • Sets localization and naming standards

Soft skills

 

  • Career Mentorship & Coaching (GROW, NOPRA)
  • Design and Team Leadership
  • Change Management
  • Product Strategy and Roadmapping
  • Design Governance
  • Stakeholder Management
  • User Interviewing
  • Client interviewing
  • Technical Recruitment Interviewing
  • Agile Development
  • Requirement Gathering

Tools

 

  • Figma (Design, Make, FigJam, Sites)
  • ChatGPT Enterprise (custom GPTs, design critique, copywriting)
  • Google Gemini (Custom Gems, personal projects, image creation)
  • Lovable, Vercel v0
  • Miro / Mural
  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Paper, Pen and Whiteboards

 

Mentorship & Coaching

 

  • Mentors junior to senior consultants.
  • Coaches cross-functional leadership profiles.
  • Supports sustainability and burnout recovery.
  • Drives high design quality standards.

Education

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden – 2011-2016

Master of Science in Interaction Design and Technology

Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea – fall 2014

Various courses, exchange semester

Languages

Swedish (native)

English (fluent)

Andreas Grünewald

Strategic UX Designer & Design Lead

Experience

My Work

About Me

Contact

Are you looking for a guy in UX, 6.1’, brown eyes?

10+ years experience, 10+ clients, strategic design leader dedicated to simplify complexity

[ Secret Client ]

CV

Senior UX Consultant, Associate Manager, Mentor and Community driver

Netlight Consulting

August 2016 – ongoing

Serves as a senior expert in UX and Product Design for complex financial and business environments. Combines high-level consulting with a deep commitment to organizational growth, mentorship, and the evolution of the internal design community.

 

9 years of consulting within UX design, focusing on complex ecosystems, tools and services.

5 years of mentoring and personnel responsibility.

7 years of coaching and guiding colleagues.

Driver of design community and sales representative towards potential clients.

Lead UX Designer

Scania

October 2024 – December 2025

Led a design strategy and overhaul of the highest-traffic page (>200k visits/month) with focus on platform scalability, ecosystem integration, responsiveness, and design system usage.

Conceptualised new routing feature through close collaboration with Traton architects, back and front end developers and PO’s.

Coached and mentored colleagues in UX copy writing and user communication patterns.

See my work

Project Manager, Product Owner

Netlight Consulting

September 2023 – December 2024

Spearheaded the translation of new brand assets and guidelines into a new digital brand direction for Netlight and new design system.

Project manager for the full project lifecycle of defining, creating and delivering a new public web for all of Netlight, based on an intuitive CMS for ease of use for sales, recruitment, brand and marketing.

Oversaw up to three teams of PO’s, developers, designers consisting of available consultants. At delivery over 70 people had been engaged in building the project.

See my work

Design Lead, Senior UX Designer

Qliro Group

October 2023 - May 2024

Led end-to-end design update of payment management pages for app and web. Spearheaded design system update and translation tool implementation to improve localisation, legibility, accessibility and user control.

Led a research team through comprehensive guerilla testing with 80+ participants in Oslo and Copenhagen to understand and improve pay later conversion.

Unified design team by increasing collaboration, critiques and shared knowledge bases. Initiated strategic design discussion and long-term visions.

UX Lead, Senior UX Designer

Secret client within Private Equity

January 2022 - September 2023

Oversaw a complete UI transformation, design system update, and new navigation architecture when updating the investor portal’s brand and identity.

Worked closely with business owners and stakeholders to align design goals with product strategy and roadmaps.

Established tracking and feedback loops by implementing Google Analytics 4 and HotJar, conducted usability testing for feature validation.

NDA protected

Design Lead, Senior UX Designer

Zettle by PayPal

January 2020 - December 2021

Spearheaded the end-to-end design for account migrations for Zettle and PayPal accounts. Conducted several user interviews, testing and closed beta releases to ensure a good release.

Worked closely with senior leadership from Zettle and PayPal, working with individuals in India, Sweden, Netherlands and USA.

Acted as stakeholder and representative towards marketing and other affected product teams.

See my work

Other clients

Swedbank Pay

December 2019

  • Brilliant Future - Design Lead - Feb 19 - Nov 19
  • Nordnet - Lead UX Designer – Dec 16 - Nov 18
  • PwC, Onify, AiSpot - UX Designer – Sep 16 - Nov 16
  • Spotify - UX Designer, Master theis – Jan 16 - Jun 16

Skills

Design Leadership & Strategy

 

  • Aligns roadmaps with business and user goals
  • Unifies teams through shared knowledge and goals
  • Facilitates stakeholder alignment
  • Guides discovery to production launch

Consulting & Business Development

 

  • Drives UX value in sales meetings
  • Leads professional design networks
  • Conducts technical interviews and screenings for recruitment
  • Provides finance sector subject expertise

Complex Interaction Design

 

  • Designs intricate and complex user journeys
  • Maps technical data to interfaces
  • Establishes robust interaction patterns
  • Optimizes complex navigation architecture

Mentorship & Coaching

 

  • Mentors junior to senior consultants.
  • Coaches cross-functional leadership profiles.
  • Supports sustainability and burnout recovery.
  • Drives high design quality standards.

UX Reseach & Optimization

 

  • Conducts international field testing.
  • Implements analytics and feedback loops.
  • Validates data-driven user stories.
  • Ensures quality through user testing.

Design Operations & Systems

 

  • Maintains web and app design systems
  • Streamlines agile development workflows
  • Sets localization and naming standards

Soft skills

 

  • Career Mentorship & Coaching (GROW, NOPRA)
  • Design and Team Leadership
  • Change Management
  • Product Strategy and Roadmapping
  • Design Governance
  • Stakeholder Management
  • User Interviewing
  • Client interviewing
  • Technical Recruitment Interviewing
  • Agile Development
  • Requirement Gathering

Tools

 

  • Figma (Design, Make, FigJam, Sites)
  • ChatGPT Enterprise (custom GPTs, design critique, copywriting)
  • Google Gemini (Custom Gems, personal projects, image creation)
  • Lovable, Vercel v0
  • Miro / Mural
  • Atlassian Jira / Confluence
  • Paper, Pen and Whiteboards

 

Mentorship & Coaching

 

  • Mentors junior to senior consultants.
  • Coaches cross-functional leadership profiles.
  • Supports sustainability and burnout recovery.
  • Drives high design quality standards.

Education

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden – 2011-2016

Master of Science in Interaction Design and Technology

Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea – fall 2014

Various courses, exchange semester

Languages

Swedish (native)

English (fluent)