Mike Talvensaari

Summary

10+ years as user experience and product management executive, most recently working on both Search and Material Design at Google. Having worked as an engineer, PM, and UX Designer (and as IC and Manager in all 3 disciplines), I am uniquely positioned to help your company improve your user experience teams. If you're a startup just building out a UX team, I can assist with getting it off the ground. If you want to improve your UX processes, I can help improve how your UX team interacts with Product Management, Engineering and other areas. Need someone to step in and manager your UX or Product team while a key leader is out on leave? I can help. And if you just need advice on how to improve the new UX you or your team is working on, I'm happy to review the designs and give feedback. I have diverse experience creating customer-focused, award-winning products, and SaaS/PaaS services for video streaming, print-on-demand, retail, and software industries from startup to Fortune 500. Passionate about creating simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. Successfully contributed to fast-paced growth of 2 startups, with extensive large company experience, leading product management and user experience, accelerating revenue, product line, and personnel growth, introducing UX discipline, product management strategy and lifecycle processes, including agile and outcome-driven innovation (ODI). 15+ years of people management experience, mentoring, and motivating high performing teams and building successful cross-functional collaborative relationships; strong interpersonal skills and effective communicator at all levels. Able to balance the needs of customers and stakeholders.