10+ years running UCD teams.
Across startups and large public & private sector transformation programmes.
Design programmes need a navigator, not just a manager.
Embedded design leadership without the hire — Design Lead and Design Manager in one. No job spec, no notice period, no ramp-up. 10+ years across startups and large transformation programmes.
I'm Sprintpilot® — a hands-on design lead and manager in one.
I give your design team the cadence it's missing: every week starts with a brief and ends with something to show — momentum your stakeholders can see, from discovery to go-live.
Experience highlights
0 → 1 — nothing to live.
Hands-on experience taking design programmes from discovery through delivery.
Mon–Fri sprint cadence.
Design sprints on a weekly outcome rhythm — every team sees progress, every Friday.
Why sprintpilot® exists
I built Sprintpilot® because Scrum Masters kept running design teams into the ground.
I've sat in enough programmes to see the same thing happen over and over: a Scrum Master who's brilliant at running dev sprints gets handed a design team in discovery — with no idea how research, synthesis, or design iteration actually works.
Standups become status theatre. Design gets squeezed into two-week sprints that don't fit how design actually moves. Researchers and designers disengage, because no one in the room understands what they need.
Sprintpilot® is the fix. I've spent 10+ years running UCD teams — as Design Manager and Design Lead — across startups and large transformation programmes. You get the management and the hands-on leadership in one: I run your design programme the way it should be run — evidence-led, outcome-focused, and shipped on a rhythm your stakeholders can actually see.
How I show up
I run how your design team works inside the programme — not around it. From onboarding and sprint rhythm to governance and the retro that actually changes what happens next.
Sprint facilitation
Monday to Friday. Outcome every Friday.
Problem framed, research synthesised, prototype built and tested, outcome shown. Run by someone who's done this for years, not learning on the job.
Programme management
Discovery to go-live — one thread, one owner.
Standards, dependencies, governance, and the connective tissue between research, design, and delivery.
Team onboarding
Set up, oriented, and contributing fast.
Tools, process, and ways of working in place from day one — so new UCD team members hit the ground running.
Design ops
Ceremonies that serve the work.
File management, version control, design ops tooling, and workflows that keep a design team running smoothly.
Coaching
Embedded in the team, not once a month.
Reviewing work, raising the bar, and developing designers in place — as a hands-on lead where the work actually happens.
UX & UI design
End to end — research through to interface.
UX and UI design across the full stack of the work — user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces built to ship, not handoffs that stall in delivery.
You need a Sprintpilot® — a design lead and manager in one.
No job spec. No notice period. No ramp-up while someone learns what a service blueprint is. 10+ years of hands-on UCD leadership, embedded from day one.