Ryan Manning

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About Ryan Manning

Creative design executive with extensive product management experience, leading design and delivery of world-class product design for digital experiences in financial services. Track record includes creating innovative solutions that surpass user needs, driving business growth, and fostering a competitive edge. Recently partnered to deliver a new online account opening experience for Fidelity Investments, resulting in approximately 6M new individual customers in 2023. A member of a design leadership team committed to empowering users through human-centered product design focused on aligning brand standards, business goals, and technology integrations. Focus on articulating design decisions' impact on user needs and business objectives. Core Leadership and Management – Deeply skilled and practiced in leading the full lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring product and market fit, and engaging markets in validating solutions viability. Able to work at the highest strategic levels and at the lowest tactical levels. Design Strategy and Product Management – Adept at working collaboratively cross-team to translate design strategies into a product vision, nurture into the executable roadmap, and monitor and course-correct during execution. Team Leadership and Morale – Focused on driving engagement through transparency. Ensure teams have a clear line-of-sight between company, design strategies, and daily work. Open-door policy for feedback to drive a one-team mentality. Design Strategy and Workshop Facilitation – Highly versed in gaining empathy with users through a human-centered approach in design thinking to turn ambiguous requirements into an actionable strategy. Leveraging psychology and user behavior to improve the quality of experiences and user engagement. Skilled at weighing design decisions against platform impact to ensure maximum impact. Driven to innovate and redefine accepted norms. Skilled in UX, prototyping, and experience design. Technology and Software Development – Educated and experienced in the application and delivery of technology to solve business problems and drive innovation. Work well with product and architecture teams in ‘speaking their language. Focusing on a systems approach to drive platform adoption, used by 3K developers across 1K repositories, saving costs and speeding up time to market.