Skill set
Said in a few words
I am a freelance product designer who can code. A match made in heaven, they say 🦄
I started working in the software world since 2010. I went from web design to UI/UX design to product design. I had many roles during my career; senior designer, design lead, co-founder, and CPO. I designed and build software for different companies in different sectors: e-commerce, healthcare, sports, and fintech. I worked with agencies, startups, scale-ups, and corporates.
I worked full-time on my own startup for 2 years. Now, after selling my shares of my start-up, I am working full-time as a freelance product designer with an extra sauce of coding. During my career, I managed different teams of designers and developers.
When I am not working, I play or watch football. I am a Real Madrid & Ajax fan.
To see my work, go to: saidzadou[dot]nl
Experience
- ADIDASSenior Product Designer & Scrum MasterSPORTSJanuary 2022 - Today (3 years and 4 months)Amsterdam, NetherlandsI help the Studio A product team to build an in house platform to keep track of resources, budgets, and ongoing projects.
- RoosterplatformSenior Product DesignerHEALTH & WELLNESSMarch 2021 - Today (4 years and 2 months)Baarn, NetherlandsI help Roosterplatform design and build a web-app that makes scheduling in the healthcare sector more effective and easy to use. Some of my responsibilities are:✅ Define & research design related problems and come up with suitable solutions✅ Sketch, prototype and design new ideas for the web-app✅ User testing & idea validation✅ Build frontend UI components for the web-app✅ Design & build the marketing website✅ Set up a design system✅ Work on an R&D project to explore new opportunities
- LudimosCo-Founder & CPOMay 2019 - April 2021 (1 year and 11 months)Amsterdam, NetherlandsI started my own startup together with my old colleague. The mission of Ludimos is to use AI, ML and cutting-edge technologies to help cricket coaches and cricket players to train, develop and share knowledge faster and easier from anywhere in the world. Some of my responsibilities are: ✅ Set up a solid team of designers and developers & manage it ✅ Pitch to investors and VC's & seek for investment (€500k pre-seed) ✅ Define & research business/design problems ✅ Sketch, prototype and design new ideas ✅ Design the native app for iOS and Android ✅ User testing & idea validation ✅ A/B testing the marketing website ✅ Organize scrum activities like demo's, retro's and stand-up's ✅ Build the web-app
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Education
- Bachelor in Information TechnologyHogeschool van Amsterdam2012Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
- Scrum Training, Project ManagementProwareness Agile Academy2017Scrum Training, Project Management