About

Claus Hollensteiner is a highly skilled Freelance Product Designer with over 11 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently serving as a Product Design Lead at back, where he is responsible for organizing and automating employee requests on an intuitive platform. Prior to his current role, Claus has worked as a Product Designer at contentful, where he led the efforts around the design system and introduced design operations to streamline the approach to product design. He was responsible for end-to-end product design and worked on various topics, including onboarding, authoring, and developer experience. Claus also built a strong design culture in collaboration with the first UX designer and grew the design team from two to seven people. He started out in the marketing team and introduced a new visual brand language that is still in use today. Claus also led a relaunch of the marketing website, from project management to design and front-end development. Claus has also served as a Designer and Front-End Developer at gigmit.com, where he refactored the marketing website and web application, introducing a modular architecture for CSS. He helped the team introduce standard agile development processes. Claus is proficient in product design, designing, frontend, and web development. He is a highly motivated and results-driven professional who is passionate about delivering exceptional results. Claus is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, making him an asset to any team.