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Dean Fankhauser
Senior Product Leader · Principal Product Manager
Sydney, Australia · deanfankhauser@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/deanfankhauser
Product leader with 10+ years shipping digital products. A decade contracting as a product and UX lead for Google, LVMH, Jaguar Land Rover, Xapo and Santander, then eight years building and running product at a marketplace acquired by Klarna and at three commercial products since. Strongest where an ambiguous problem needs a decision: discovery, strategy, product design, delivery and measurement, end to end.
Selected outcomes
- Nuji, acquired by Klarna in 2020. Social product-discovery marketplace, 5m+ items from 10,000 designers. Grew connections between people 37.6 times and attributed order value from £60,039 to £455,025 across 2011 to 2012.
- Movingto. €6.76m of client capital placed into 10 investment funds; 96% instalment collection across the client book.
- Santander. Led Project Leapfrog, a 15-person cross-functional programme presented to global executive teams.
- Bitcompare. Took a consumer comparison site to a normalised data layer with a B2B API, provider marketplace and CPC billing.
Experience
Head of Product · Movingto
2021–present
Sydney and Lisbon
Product across a residency-by-investment platform: comparison tooling, qualification and booking funnels, content-to-conversion architecture, internal operations and commercials systems, internationalisation.
Head of Product · Robozaps
2024–present
Humanoid-robotics catalogue and data product. Canonical database, category and brand architecture, regulatory-status data, editorial-to-product wiring.
Product Lead · Bitcompare
2019–present
Crypto yield-intelligence platform and data API. Normalised yield schema across CeFi and DeFi, structured API and MCP surfaces for AI agents, publisher integrations, provider marketplace with CPC billing, and a demand-intelligence dataset sold to providers.
Senior Innovation Partner · Santander UK
2019–2021
London
Led Project Leapfrog, directing a 15-person cross-functional team on the bank's forward vision across digital banking, customer experience and operating model. Presented to global executive teams. Internal venture activity and strategic investment review.
Product Design Lead, contract · Xapo
2018–2019
Bitcoin wallet and custody products. Product and UX frameworks, Figma design system, iOS, Android and web. Payments, onboarding and KYC flows. Workshop facilitation and team mentoring.
Product Lead, contract · Poke London
2017–2018
Clients: Virgin, TM Lewin. Ecommerce and travel. Full product and UX stack, C-level workshops, responsive web and email.
Head of UX, then Head of Product, contract · Lifecake, acquired by Canon
2017–2018
Promoted to Head of Product after six months. Responsible for iOS, Android and web. Product strategy, engagement, monetisation and growth. Established product and UX frameworks, hired and mentored the team.
UX Lead, contract · Spark 44, for Jaguar Land Rover
2016–2017
Connected-vehicle and vehicle-management interfaces. Full UX stack, iOS and Android, user research, C-level stakeholder management.
UX Lead, contract · Google
2016
Greenfield YouTube product under NDA. Full UX stack across responsive web, Android and iOS.
Product Strategy Lead, contract · LVMH, 24 Sèvres
2015–2016
Greenfield luxury ecommerce platform positioned against Net-a-Porter and Farfetch. Product strategy with LVMH digital leadership, full UX stack, led C-level workshops, managed UX, design and strategy teams.
UX and IA, contract · Spring Studios
2015–2016
Lead UX on large-scale multi-brand online department stores.
Head of Product · Nuji, acquired by Klarna
2011–2015, Director to 2020
London
Social product-discovery marketplace, 5m+ items from 10,000 designers. Owned the discovery and curation model, catalogue architecture, mobile product and affiliate monetisation. Klarna acquired the company in 2020.
Consultant, UX and IA, contract · Dare
2011–2012
London
Native and web mobile apps, plus the lead client website. Clients included Nescafé Dolce Gusto.
Consultant, UX, IA and Strategy · Various London agencies
2010–2011
Mobile apps and digital strategy. Clients included Sainsbury's and Hunter.
Innovations and Strategic Planning Consultant · Hill & Knowlton
2010
London
Digital strategy and product. Built and hired the digital team, took an internal startup property from concept to execution.
Strategy · Yahoo!
2009–2010
London
Technical and creative concepts with engineering teams. Insight work supporting product decisions across Yahoo properties and mobile.
Strategic Planner and Business Development · Euro RSCG 4D, Havas
2008–2009
Amsterdam
Agency innovation and insight, established a social practice, new-business pitching.
Education
Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
Swinburne University, Melbourne, 2004–2007
User Experience Design
General Assembly, London, 2015
Recognition
- Seedcamp winner, 2011
- TNW Startup Rally, Best Web App, 2012
- The Guardian, East London's 20 hottest startups, 2012
- TechCrunch Europas, top UK startup, 2013
- Young Guns, top 30 entrepreneurs under 35 in the UK, 2014
- Tech City 100, 2013 to 2016
Capabilities
Product strategy · Discovery · Roadmapping · Customer research · UX and interaction design · Prototyping · Experimentation · Analytics · Monetisation · Growth · Marketplace design · B2B and API products · Design systems · Cross-functional leadership · Go-to-market