Lea Ann Hutter
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Studied at Parsons School of Design, The New School
Works at Hutter Connect
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Work Experience
Executive Leadership and Career Coach
Hutter Connect
January 2025 - Present
I am a certified Executive Leadership and Career coach who helps people navigate big changes and experience more clarity, fulfillment and joy. I bring decades of experience in creative leadership, management, mentoring, and teaching to my clients, sharing valuable tools and practices that have helped me overcome fear and achieve things I never imagined I was capable of before.
Executive Leadership Coach in training
New Ventures West
December 2023 - January 2025
I've earned my professional Coaching Certification through New Ventures West, the global leader in Integral Coach training and leadership development. I chose New Ventures West because the philosophy of Integral coaching resonates with my own experience that fulfillment comes from awareness and alignment in the heart, mind, body and spirit.
Senior Director of Product Design
October 2017 - April 2021
Hiring Manager
Leading and scaling User Experience Design teams for LinkedIn Talent Solutions ($4B+ multi product platform for recruiting and job posting), Careers (the free LinkedIn job seeking experience), the Trust UX Design team and the China UX Design team.
Director of Product Design
March 2015 - September 2017
Hiring Manager
As Director of Product Design, I lead and scale a dynamic group of Senior Design Managers and UX Designers across 3 key areas: $2B+ Talent Solutions product suite (Recruiting and Job posting), Careers (the free LinkedIn job seeking experience), and Premium Subscriptions. My team and I partner with Product and Engineering to shape strategy across monetized and free desktop and mobile apps, including the 5 start rated LinkedIn Job Seeker app. I focus the team on creating excellence in user experience that positively impacts business success. As a Hiring Manager, I actively evaluate design talent for hire and placement across all of LinkedIn’s product teams.
Senior Manager of User Experience Design
May 2014 - March 2015
Hiring Manager
As Senior User Experience Design Manager of LinkedIn’s Monetization team, my top priority is partnering with Product leadership to shape strategy across all monetized mobile and desktop products. I lead a dynamic team of UX Design Managers and Designers across Talent Solutions (Recruiter, Jobs), Marketing Solutions (Ads, Company Pages), Sales Solutions, Premium Subscriptions, and Payments. I focus the team on creating excellence in user experience that positively impacts business success. I’m actively scaling the team, onboarding and mentoring new Managers and Designers, as well as evaluating design talent for hire and placement across all of LinkedIn’s product teams.
Senior User Experience Designer
January 2011 - June 2012
Interviewer
I work collaboratively with the CORE product team on membership growth and improving the registration user experience. I conduct competitive analysis and create personas, wireframes, flows and high fidelity UI designs for desktop and mobile. I'm passionate about designing products that help people achieve career related goals with a feeling of effortlessness.
Senior User Experience Designer
Hearst Corporation
November 2009 - January 2011
I design core feature UI and interactions across Kaboodle (a Hearst Digital Company), including the registration and Facebook Login experience and the "Add to Kaboodle" button. I also work closely with product and engineering to develop iterations of the SEO catalog page and SEM landing page for A/B testing to increase affiliate monetization. In addition, I've taken on a leadership role by launching the Competitive Research Group, a cross-disciplinary team of 20 that is tracking, analyzing and sharing new developments in the social and e-commerce space.
User Experience Designer
ThisNext
March 2008 - November 2009
I work collaboratively with Product, Tech and Community to develop UI solutions that balance meeting revenue goals with improving the product features and overall user experience. I take the lead on partner sponsorship integrations (such as Pepsi/Propel) by creating strategy and product concepts, flow diagrams and visual design. I also conduct usability testing and scope features based on value prop and behavioral analysis. I've also lead a scrum team and manage other designers.
Founder and Creative Director
Hutter Design
November 1999 - March 2008
Hiring Manager
As the creative and business force behind Hutter Design, my focus was on building solid, long term client relationships and delivering successful design solutions on time and budget. Most clients retained my services for 3 or more years for projects that ranged from branding, advertising, email marketing, web sites with CMS, UI design and usability consultation. I hired and managed a team of freelance designers and partnered with Flash and PHP developers to provide streamlined, cost effective design and marketing services. My clients included A&E, TheStreet.com, Beliefnet, Gabriels Technology Solutions, Wazap, M Represents and Glow.com.
Education
Parsons School of Design, The New School
BFA, Communication Design
Activities and societies: Parsons Communication Design department representative
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Overall Rating
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