Ellen Conant
User Experience Manager at Pacific Gas & Electric / PG&E
- Role
- Mobile Product Design, Ux Product Design Manager at Pacific Gas & Electric at Pacific Gas & Electric Pg&e
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ellen Conant
User Experience Strategy and Design management professional with 20+ years of experience in a range of complex UX projects. Adept at linking business and design thinking techniques to produce innovative strategies. Background combines both a Haas MBA and a Yale MFA in design. Focused on human-centered solutions founded on solid user needs analysis. Effective team leader, meeting facilitator, and member of cross-functional leadership teams. Focus on end to end user experience leadership from project definition to implementation. Experience building out a UX and Product Design team and creating UX process tools for team alignment.Specialties: UX and Design management, product design strategy, customer experience, brand strategy, user research, mentoring and design thinking.Past Client Work: T. Rowe Price, Cytyc Corporation, American Express, K-12 OER Collaborative, Haas Garwood Center for Innovation, Jones, Lang LaSalle, Boston Children\'s Hospital, City of Hartford, Yale University and U.S. Census Bureau among others.Extra-credit professional interests: Coached Haas business students to learn the design/business innovation process as part of their core course requirements. Past experience also includes creating and teaching college level design courses to Parsons students.
Experience
Mobile Product Design, Ux Product Design Manager at Pacific Gas & Electric
Oct 2019 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Manage and direct a team of UX researchers and UI designers invested in making mobile applications for PG & E\'s field crews so they can get work done more safely and accurately. Model for innovation throughout the company. Involved in all aspects of design leadership for a large enterprise.
Education
Oberlin College
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Yale University
MFA
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
MBA
Skills
- Competitive Analysis
- Customer Experience
- Start-Ups
- Presentation Development
- Qualitative Research
- Design Strategy
- Design for Print, Interactive, and Wayfinding
- Product Marketing
- Product Management
- Analysis
- Adjunct College-Level Course Development and Teaching
- Project Scope Development
- Design Thinking
- Strategy
- Group Facilitation
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Marketing Strategy
- Leadership
- Interactive Advertising
- Corporate Capbility Building in Design Thinking
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