Manuel Gattinger

Global Head of Design @Star

Munich, DE
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WORK HISTORY

Mar 2025 — Present

Global Head of Design @Star

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Munich, DE

My role at Star:Kick-starting the design studio in Munich for Star (previously: Cogniance). Executing projects, building the design team, developing strategic and operational initiatives with the objective of scaling the design team as well as the global design business.Star is a global consultancy that connects insights, strategy, design, engineering and marketing services into a seamless workflow devised to support our clients every step of the way - no matter how long or complex their journey. We anchor everything we do in clear and compelling endgames, which in turn enable our strategists, designers and engineers to create superior solutions and commercial successes for our

EDUCATION

2004 — 2006

Umeå Institute of Design

Master of Arts - MA, Advanced Product Design

2001 — 2005

FH Joanneum

Master of Science - MSc / Diplom-Ingenieur FH - Industrial and Product Design , Industrial Design

SKILLS

User-Centered DesignCreative DirectionDesign ManagementStrategic DesignModeling3dMobileConcept IdeationConcept DesignAdobe Creative SuiteSketchingIndustrial DesignIdeationPhotoshopCadProduct DesignDesign StrategyRenderingDesign ThinkingSolidworksUser ExperienceIdea GenerationResearch DesignProduct DevelopmentIndesign

ABOUT MANUEL GATTINGER

I am a designer with over 20 years of experience creating digital and physical products / services that make a difference-I have worked in corporate design teams and international design consultancies in Vienna, New York, London and Shenzhen. I am now based in Munich. I have been the Industrial Design Lead for one of Nokia\'s first full-touch phones (rather long ago), designed the most successful portable speaker family (a couple of years ago) and the first AI Cobot at scale (not so long ago). My current position is Head of Design at Star.I have a proven track record in successfully establishing high-performance multidisciplinary design teams and helping to build entire design studios. Trust and finding purpose in accountability are important to me. I strive to develop a fluency with team members that allows us to effectively reconfigure, adapt and deliver in complex environments. The combination of dense connectivity (trust) and the understanding of the situation and commitment to outcome (purpose) makes them resilient and allows the teams I work with to tackle more complex problems than traditional hierarchical teams-

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