Elena Gianni
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English Full professional proficiency
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Italian Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Experience
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Cookpad
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head Of Design
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Apr 2020 - Present
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Executive Officer
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Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
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The New York Times
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United States
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Newspaper Publishing
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700 & Above Employee
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Design Director
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Dec 2016 - May 2019
After leading the re-design for The New York Times home screen across platforms, I now lead our personalizations efforts.The goal of the home page redesign was to re-focus our strategy on subscribers while unifying our editorial curation across our apps and websites.
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Lead Product Designer
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Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
I lead the re-imagining of the Times' Well blog as a digital service. Through research and rapid prototyping we came up with a long term product and editorial strategy, short term design solutions, and a set of projects.
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User Experience Designer
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Nov 2012 - Jun 2016
As a designer, I worked on a variety of projects, from refining NYT Now an IOS only experience designed as an entry level product for the Times, to be part of the team that wrote the Innovation report, a 6-months research effort that captured the current state of the Times and what steps we could take to push the company forward.
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Interaction & Service Designer
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Sep 2010 - Sep 2012
I worked as a designer and a prototyper. By helping designing interfaces, and learning new coding skills as needed I was part of multidisciplinary design teams from research to delivery, while being in charge on prototyping efforts. I worked as a designer and a prototyper. By helping designing interfaces, and learning new coding skills as needed I was part of multidisciplinary design teams from research to delivery, while being in charge on prototyping efforts.
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Experientia
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Italy
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Design
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1 - 100 Employee
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Freelancer Developer
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Oct 2009 - Dec 2009
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TODO
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Italy
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Design Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Intern
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Jul 2008 - Aug 2008
Helped design and develop a low-fi, low-tech, light installation for the Piemonte Region. Helped design and develop a low-fi, low-tech, light installation for the Piemonte Region.
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Education
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CIID - Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Master's degree, Interaction Design -
Politecnico di Torino
Bachelor, Media Studies & Engineering