Pelin Kazak Bagatur

Product-UX design leader and strategist

With over 13 years of experience spanning Berlin, New York, London, and my hometown of Istanbul, my work fosters positive change and impact through experience design.

In addition to my design endeavors, I'm a certified yoga teacher passionately advocating holistic well-being.

Clients

Zalando

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Sherpa.ai

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Collato

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Quan Wellbeing

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Taxfix

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IADSS

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Verbally.io

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Emma Sleep

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Atölye

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UNFCCC

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The Paradym

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Zalando • Sherpa.ai • Collato • Quan Wellbeing • Taxfix • IADSS • Verbally.io • Emma Sleep • Atölye • UNFCCC • The Paradym •

Services

How I can support you and your team:

Leading change is a journey of uncovering patterns, identifying possibilities, and crafting simple and impactful solutions. Let’s have a chat and explore how I can support you.

    • Leading design strategy, UX and user research through disruptive and complex projects

    • Leading the design team, hiring and mentoring talent when needed

    • Curating ways of working, setting the project up for success

    • Supporting growth of the design team

    • Setting up a team culture, through rituals

    • Fostering design team well-being and creativity

    • Bringing design team maturity higher

    • Planning and facilitating, Design Sprints, Brand, Vision, and Value Creation Workshops that are curated for your business, user and stakeholder needs

    • Solving clear problems in a short time in alignment of a large group of stakeholders

    • Product design review of your current product

    • Building hypotheses on product-market fit

    • Discovery research: User & market research

    • Value proposition creation

    • Concept design & testing

    • DIY: Setting up UX research capabilities for your team and training the team to run user research

    • Portfolio building and landing on a job

    • Design Management: Honing people focused skills

    • Building up a freelance career

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Recent work

Testimonials

  • "Pelin has this rare "full package": she is extremely user-focused, truly falls in love with the users’ problem - not with the solution, and always makes sure to solve for a business problem that matters! All this combined enable her to create great solutions that generate the desired user and business impact."

    Mareike Hummel - Director Recommerce, Zalando

  • "Pelin is very experienced, and pragmatic in taking business needs into account, which is essential in a startup environment. Pelin led and structured our design projects, including user research, design sprints and prototype testing (as a facilitator she is world class), to an amazing outcome!"

    Lucy Howie, Co-Founder & CPO, Quan Wellbeing

  • "Pelin is the embodiment of high standard design and design strategy. She can bring together really well her passion, strong design knowledge, curious mind. A true gem who understands business and technology with a strong design and human centered perspective!"

    Esin Işık, Principle Product Designer, Zalando

  • "There’s no doubt Pelin can take credit for a major part of Zalon by Zalando’s story so far. Pelin was a big driver behind a lot of best-practices and features, with proven KPIs. Pelin has inspired many of us to become better at building great products and can only recommend working with her."

    Dieter Meeuwssen - Lead Product Manager, FarFetch

  • "I worked with Pelin on designing our product from scratch. Pelin's exceptional talent in user research and interaction design, combined with her passion for creating simple user experiences, made her an invaluable member of our team. Her solid understanding of business goals, along with her positive and creative attitude, helped us building our product with a solid design base."

    Ebru Turun - Co-founder, Elements