Lukas Bänninger Leone

User-Centered Product Leader, Putting Impact First.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

More: https://www.baenninger.co/ 19 years of experience from individual contributor (UX, CX and PM) to CEO in a consulting company offering services in product management, user experience and user research. Proven impact on vast range of products from software to hardware to services in various industries. Working to make products better. Shaping product end to end and from a human (mind) perspective: product vision and strategy, business (models), technology, distribution, features, processes, visual and interaction design. Passionate about leading people and designing organizations and environments to enable people and create great products.

Experience

  • Bänninger Consulting BV (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Managing Owner (self-employed)
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Consulting and support in Leadership & Management, Culture, Scaling up Organisations and Teams, Product Management, User Experience and Research, Customer Experience, Innovation Management, Behavioural Economics in Product and Management. Coaching for Managers, Individual Contributors and Teams in Product, UX Research & Design, Marketing and Business. Recent and current clients: Swisscom, blue Entertainment AG, enersuisse AG or Product Matters GmbH.

    • Product Management, Design & Research Coach at Product Matters GmbH
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Frontiers (Full-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Product Director UX & Acceleration
      Mar 2023 - Mar 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Head of Product Innovation & Excellence
      Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Change Management: Drove Frontier’s change into a user-centered (product) company, working with senior management as well as fostering and enabling strong discovery work in cross-functional product teams. User Experience: Built up a UX Design team and a UX Research team, and set up processes, best practices, and structures to enable efficient product design and research activities in cross-functional teams. Product Management: Built up a team of user-obsessed Product Managers with a significant product portfolio within the Frontier’s product ecosystem.

  • Managing Owner (self-employed) at Bänninger Consulting BV
    Aug 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Consulting and support in Leadership & Management, Culture, Scaling up Organisations and Teams, Product Management, User Experience and Research, Customer Experience, Innovation Management, Behavioural Economics in Product and Management. Coaching for Managers, Individual Contributors and Teams in Product, UX Research & Design, Marketing and Business. Client Mandates for Migros-GenossenschaftsBund (DX Team) and Netcetera (Payment Security)

  • Die Ergonomen Usability AG (8 yrs 3 mos)
    • CEO
      Feb 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Constant sustainable growth of the company: # of employees from 12 in 2014 to 25 in June 20, increasing revenue and profit; increasing customer base and customer satisfaction (NPS). Leadership and Management: Defined the company’s mission and values. Introduced company and team OKRs. Successfully introduced a scalable management layer.

    • COO - Team Lead Consulting - User Experience and Product Management Expert
      Nov 2014 - Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Built up and led a high performing team of product experts through talent acquisition and catalyzing transformation of company’s culture into a culture of debate, experimentation and trust (NPS employee satisfaction from 45 in 2017 to 95 end of 2019). Closed/sold, set up and led many client projects with proven impact. Successfully launched new consulting services with focus on Product Strategy and Management, Behavioural Economics in Product and cross-functional agile Development.

    • Senior User Experience Expert
      Apr 2012 - Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Product Manager / Human Centered Design Expert at Swisscom
    Nov 2010 - Mar 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Launched first subscription bundles (landline, internet, TV, mobile) in Switzerland. Responsible for e2e user experience (internal and end user touchpoints). Methodical focus on CX (critical user journeys / customer journey maps), interaction design and e2e usability testing. Part of transformation team, which was assigned to transform this traditional, former state-run telecom company into an agile, cross-functional and human centered product company.