Stephen ReaProduct, design & AI strategy
Hands-on product design across SaaS, fintech, connected services and games. Three decades of making ideas clear, useful and ready to build.
Explore my experience2024
Global Director UX/CX Product Design — Tax & Accounting
Global tax and accounting UX/CX, shared design governance and systems across more than 30 products; AI-enabled workflows and a framework connecting design quality to business outcomes.
October 2023–January 2024
Principal Design Consultant
Assessed design operations within the BBC Product Leadership group; recommendations for workflows, collaboration and integration into product development.
October 2022–May 2023
Director of Product Design
Consumer and business fintech products; a distributed team of 12 product designers, shared processes, design systems and closer product/engineering collaboration.
April 2019–August 2022
Senior Director Product UX & Design
Product transformation and design organisation growth from 18 to 84 people across six locations; a reported 3.5% increase in daily sign-ups.
May 2018–April 2019
Creative Director — Experience Design
FordPass and FordPass Pro, Owners Dashboard and subscriptions, plus global websites; matrixed team of 12 designers across Ogilvy, VMLY&R and GTB.
April 2017–April 2018
Head of UX & Design
Web and app experiences for global brands, with a London team and four near-shore teams. Clients included Apple, TJX, Nestlé, Santander, Philip Morris and Ernst & Young.
January 2014–April 2017
Lead Experience Design Manager
Orange branded-device experience programme from XD-Labs London. User stories, logic architecture, wireframes, journeys, visual style and user testing; European and AMEA country partners.
May 2013–January 2014
Head of UX & Design
Built a design function, common design language and standards for wireframes, flows, UI assets and delivery across three agile teams.
November 2012–May 2013
Lead Digital Product Designer
End-to-end mobile product design: requirements, UX, wireframes, UI concepts, production assets and developer collaboration. Clients included Deloitte, PwC, BlackBerry and William Hill.
April 2012–November 2012
Lead UX/UI Designer
Game-ready art, UI assets, game journeys, marketing assets and collaboration with developers.
November 2010–April 2012
Art Director
Game art direction, style/reference guides, external studios, technical constraints and marketing assets.
2005–November 2010
Owner / Adobe Certified Expert / Autodesk Certified Instructor / Autodesk Authorised Publisher
Studio ownership, 3D visualisation, technical teaching and publishing.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Design
University of Portsmouth