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Danielle D

Product Strategist & UX Research Lead | Strategy · Discovery · Experiments | B2B/B2C

About Me

Product Strategist & UX Research Lead with 7+ years of experience across B2B fintech and high-traffic consumer platforms. I work at the intersection of product strategy, user research, and experimentation, helping teams move from ambiguous problems to validated, high-impact solutions. My core strength is end-to-end product discovery. I work across the full flow: framing the right problem, uncovering user needs through research, translating insights into clear product strategy, and validating decisions through experiments and post-launch evaluation. I’m as comfortable running deep qualitative research as I am collaborating with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to ship and measure outcomes. I’ve worked across B2B and B2C environments in fast-moving, commercial contexts where prioritization, evidence, and speed matter. I led discovery across 7 global markets at Covantis and built experimentation processes from scratch at Clickout, helping teams replace assumptions with structured learning and measurable outcomes. In practice, this often means working on: · Clarifying problem spaces and success criteria early · Turning research insights into concrete product direction and trade-offs · Designing and running experiments and A/B tests to reduce risk · Connecting discovery work to delivery and post-launch evaluation · Acting as a bridge between research, product, design, engineering, and leadership I excel where strategy, discovery, and experimentation converge to drive measurable results. Let’s connect if you’re building products that value evidence over assumptions.

Jurisdiction

Malta

Notable Employer

  • Senior UX & Product Researcher at Covantis

Experience

Seniority LevelMid-Senior level
Years of Experience6-10 years
Current StatusActive
Product Manager & UX ResearcherClickout Media
2024 - Present

• Product management & strategy: Led product strategy and roadmap for 2 cross-functional development teams, setting prioritisation logic based on business impact and user value across competing SEO, content, editorial, and commercial requests. Used Opportunity Solution Trees and structured discovery to resolve conflicts, make impact-driven trade-offs under limited resources, and align teams on what to build first. • Experimentation & decision-making: Owned experimentation across 6+ flagship sites and 3 company verticals, framing ambiguous problems into testable hypotheses and running A/B and multi-variant tests end-to-end. Established experimentation processes and templates, onboarded other POs on VWO, and delivered successful experiments, including one showing a ~12% relative increase in total clickout rate. • User research & insights: Conducted hands-on user research using surveys, behavioural analysis, and experiment data, synthesising qualitative and quantitative insights to improve content relevance, conversion, and overall user experience. • Major redesign leadership: Led a full end-to-end redesign for a flagship site, driving an iterative rollout approach over a big-bang release to reduce delivery risk and achieve strong stakeholder alignment. • Execution & scale: Coordinated delivery of product and UX changes across multiple high-traffic platforms and 8+ GEOs per site, aligning design, development, SEO, editorial, and localisation inputs. Clarified requirements upfront, kept backlogs ready across teams, and maintained shared documentation and training to keep delivery flowing.

Senior UX & Product ResearcherNotableCovantis
2022 - 2024

* Leading 7 exploratory and strategic B2B research initiatives, facilitating research kickoff and debrief sessions with 10+ stakeholders and development teams. * Conducting in-depth interviews with 80+ clients across 7 markets and 6 user personas, achieving at least a 90% confidence level in understanding client needs per research initiative. * Creating multiple Opportunity Solution Tree maps, communicating 16+ actionable findings to PMs, directly shaping product strategy. * Conducting 30+ continuous discovery sessions, uncovering 15 new foundational topics. * Proposed the improvement of UX metrics, presented to a shareholder, and increased survey respondents from 93 to 170 after implementing. * Proposing and organizing a UXR maturity workshop, resulting in 7 initiatives to increase maturity and 5 initiatives to improve research ops.

UX researcherBlexr
2020 - 2022

* Leading 60+ qualitative and quantitative B2C research activities including around 100 sessions collecting more than 300 unique feedback items * Improving research accessibility and discoverability by 80% with a Research Repository created from scratch using Airtable * Developing 6 detailed, data-driven user personas by triangulating quantitative and qualitative research data * Delivering 10+ research presentations and reports, increasing stakeholder satisfaction * Redesigning the user recruitment flow, reducing time by 25%, and growing the User Panel from 0 to 100+ users.

Education

Masters of MSc Information Studies (human-centered multimedia)University of Amsterdam
2016 - 2017

Certification

Total Certifications2

Product Analytics Certified

Pendo.io

2024

Data-Driven Design: Quantitative Research for UX

IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation

2021

Skills

Core skills0
Languages3

Languages

English
English (British)
Dutch