Simon Stellwag

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πŸ’» Entrepreneurial Experience

Co-Founder, Lead Product Designer


Leih dir mein Auto (Berlin)

2021 – present


β€’ Responsible for Product Design and User Experience

β€’ Responsible for Business Development as Co-CEO

β€’ Driving Marketing Initiatives

β€’ Talking to our users via different formats (Onboarding, User Testing, Customer Support)

Co-Founder, CEO, Lead Product Designer


Room Of Opportunity (Remote)

2021 – present


β€’ Responsible for client communication in projects

β€’ Leading UI Design Team and actively contributing to UI designs

β€’ Collaborating closely with Software Development teams

β€’ Assembling teams based on project needs

Co-Founder, CEO, Product Designer


None Studio (Berlin, Guadalajara)

2020 – present


β€’ Responsible for client communication

β€’ Leading Projects in Interface and Product Design

β€’ Leading project management in client and internal projects

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Working Experience as an Employee

Strategic Service Designer, Innovation Manager (Interim position)


Senior Role with focus on supporting In-house teams throughout the organisation.


Austria Railways Γ–BB (Vienna/Remote)

2023 – 2023 (5 months)


β€’ Worked on different strategic topics e.g.

β†’ Bike strategy 2030

β†’ Circular approach to Corporate Clothing

β†’ Discovery & ideation for Venture Building initiatives.

β†’ Developed the internal friendly user pool further

β€’ Conducted click dummy testings and qualitative interviews with different teams

β€’ Participated in the 2023 DreilΓ€nder-Hackathon as a challenge owner

β€’ Contributed to internal Innovation Lab activities and administrative tasks

Service Designer, Innovation Consultant (Mid – Senior Role with focus on creating entirely new services)


Service Innovation Labs (Berlin)

2018 – 2019 (1 year, 2 months)


β€’ Worked on Corporate Venture Building projects

β€’ Conducted several Design Thinking Workshops and Design Sprints for Corporate Venture teams

β€’ Guided Junior Designers on interface design, User Experience Design and various methodologies

β€’ Designed new product and service concepts including prototypes for pitch presentations

β€’ Developed, tested and validated new product and service ideas for various industries

β€’ Designed user interfaces and user experience for an early stage digital fintech product

Product Designer (Junior – Mid Role with focus on User Research, UI Design)


HRS Group – HRS Innovation Hub (Berlin, Cologne)

2017 – 2018 (1 year 6 months)


β€’ Conducted User Research

β€’ Designed interfaces based on insights from user behaviour observation and research

β€’ Contributed to a design system with several components

β€’ Designed low- and high fidelity click dummies for new product ideas

Product Designer (Abroad Internship)


CityDrive (Mobility Startup in the ride hailing sector in Mexico πŸ‡²πŸ‡½)

2016 (5 months)


β€’ Created wireframes for a new product idea

β€’ Designed User Flows for a new product idea

β€’ Contributed to improve the overall Design and User Experience of the main Product

Product Design & Support in Quality Assurance (Working Student)


Mimi Hearing Technologies (Berlin)

2014 – 2015 (1 year, 1 month)


β€’ First experience working with an international team in early stage startup

β€’ Designed several Interface assets

β€’ Responsible for manual quality assurance testing

β€’ Collaborated closely with development team (Scrum)

Product Design / Quality Assurance Assistant (Working Student)


textunes GmbH (Acquired by Thalia Group)

2012 – 2014 (2 years, 4 months)


  • β€’ My first job in tech β€’First time working in a Scrum Team (Never worked in a better one after that)
  • β€’ Designed digital assets for the main Application
  • β€’ Responsible for manual quality assurance testing

πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ“ Education

Interaction Design – Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)


2013 – 2018 (7 Semesters)

University of Applied Sciences Europe (previously btk Berlin)


Some of my courses:


β€’ Interaction Design

β€’ Design Thinking

β€’ Design Theory

β€’ Creative Coding

β€’ User Experience Design

β€’ Web Development Foundation

β€’ Project Management Foundation

β€’I nternet of Things

Media Design / Media Technology – Vocational training


2008 – 2012 (4 Years)

Linz, Austria.


β€’ Media specialist with focus on graphics, print, publishing

β€’ Media specialist with focus on audiovisual media (audio, video and animation)