Eirik Torheim
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
São Paulo - State of São Paulo, Brazil
Toptal member since December 5, 2017
Eirik is an award-winning senior design professional with 15 years of experience working with some of the most prestigious brands across Scandinavia and Europe. His achievements include a gold medal for best website and a top international award. His forte is crafting superior, holistic win-win solutions, expertly balancing the necessities of users, businesses, and technology. Eirik has worked with globally recognized marketplaces reaching 200 million users in 34 countries.
Portfolio
Work Experience
CEO
North Labs
- Contributed to co-founders from early stage to exit in both senior product and designer roles.
- Designed a landing page and dashboard for a blockchain analytics company.
- Created an AI lab and playground for exploring concepts.
Co-founder | Chief Product Officer | Chairman
Testflow AS
- Created and co-founded a B2B software as a service (SaaS) for remote, unmoderated user testing.
- Developed a prototype, MVP, and design for a product for unmoderated user testing.
- Set up our startup with a European partner, enabling us to scale to 17 countries.
CEO | Chief Product Officer | Product Designer
North Labs
- Collaborated with three co-founders from early-stage startup to acquisition.
- Built an online learning platform to connect people who want to learn Spanish with Spanish teachers.
- Designed and developed True North, a productivity and goal-setting app.
- Created a startup lab for exploring and validating early-stage ideas.
- Initiated an AI startup lab to explore the new concepts and use cases of OpenAI.
Chief Product Officer | Product Manager | UX Designer
Nettbil
- Designed a customer journey for an easy, safe, and convenient way to sell cars in the Norwegian market.
- Engaged as the chief product officer hired to lead the product team.
- Grew the startup from 100 to 30,000 sold cars after joining as part of the early team.
- Localized, adapted, and scaled the product to the Swedish market.
Product Designer, Developer Relations
Schibsted
- Built products for the internal product and technical community.
- Developed the main developer console, which collects all internal tools and services for an engineering community of over 1,700 members.
- Contributed to a distributed and Agile setup across Barcelona, Milano, Oslo, Stockholm, Krakow, Mexico City, and London.
- Facilitated brainstorming sessions and quarterly goal-setting workshops.
Lead Designer, Marketplaces Car Vertical
Schibsted
- Built products for private and professional individuals buying or selling cars.
- Created a marketplace ad performance weekly email report for car dealers in Europe.
- Designed an ad performance dashboard for car dealers.
- Conducted field research, visiting car dealers in the Swedish market.
- Worked in an Agile distributed team across six locations in Europe and Mexico.
- Produced a car price calculator design for finn.no.
UX Interaction Designer
Schibsted Tech Polska
- Designed Curate, one of the media platform's products where users control automated and personalized content.
- Built a visual concept and a design system for a unified media platform.
- Contributed expert design concepts to Schibsted Media Platform—winning INMA's New Corporate Innovation Initiative prize in 2017.
Product Owner | Product Manager
Norsk Tipping
- Worked for a government-owned limited company under the direction of the Ministry of Culture—with 42% of Norwegians as customers and daily profits of 12 million Norwegian kroner used to benefit good causes.
- Acted as the product owner for Agile teams in deploying norsk-tipping.no's new design.
- Managed and oversaw the vision, roadmap, prioritization, and release plans.
- Built relationships with around 120 stakeholders in customer service, product and brands, CRM, desk, and responsible gaming.
- Handled two procurement processes for deals over four years.
- Contributed to digitalizing and growing the customer base from 25% to 45%.
- Increased the digital revenue from 18% to 39% in my time at Norsk Tipping.
Senior Designer | Design Team Lead
Norsk Tipping
- Led a team of designers in the redesign and modernization of norsk-tipping.no.
- Built relationships with over 80 stakeholders in customer service, product, CRM, and responsible gaming.
- Contributed to the launches of over 80 new games within the Norwegian market's instant, casino, bingo, and scratch games.
- Integrated a user-centered development process with usability testing.
- Helped norsk-tipping.no achieve the gold award for the best website in the open category of Farmandsprisen 2014.
Web Designer | Web Coordinator
Volda University College
- Led a one-year renewal project of the university's website.
- Acted as the project lead and designer for over 100 stakeholders and three suppliers.
- Trained 40 employees responsible for content production.
- Designed the graphics for marketing materials, such as brochures and catalogs.
Education
Coursework Toward a Bachelor’s Degree in Management: Project Management 1 and 2
BI Norwegian Business School - Oslo, Norway
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
Swansea Metropolitan University - Swansea, Wales, UK
Bachelor's Degree in Media, Information and Communications Technology, and Design
Volda University College - Volda, Norway
Certifications
Google Analytics Individual Qualification
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance Inc.
Skills
Tools
Usertesting.com, Hotjar, Google Analytics, UsabilityHub, Figma, Make, Google Optimize, Stripe Checkout, Confluence, Jira, Optimizely, Mailchimp, Airtable
Languages
Visual Design Language
Industry Expertise
Casinos & Gaming, Media, Sports, Games, Health & Wellness, Apparel & Accessories
Platforms
Mobile, Web, Webflow, Shopify, Google Ads, Android, iOS
Other
Content Management Systems (CMS), User-centered Development (UCD), Product Management, User Research, App UI, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Responsive Web Apps, UX Design, UI Design, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Ideation Workshops, Lean Startups, Bootstrap, Gambling, Web Applications, Product Ownership, Lottery, Style Guides, UI Style Guides, Branding, Marketplace Platforms, Concepting, UX Prototyping, Data Visualization, User Interviews, Validation, Design Leadership, iOS UI Design, Startups, Agile Product Management, Mobile App Design, Startup Consulting, App Design, User Interface (UI), Analytics, Agile UX, Lean UX, User Journey Maps, Accessibility, Visual Design, User Experience (UX), Interaction Design (IxD), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum, Agile, Product Design, Product Development, Design Systems, Usability Testing, Remote User Testing, User Testing, Design, Prototyping, Google Tag Manager, Google Data Studio, MVP Design, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Funnel Optimization, Landing Pages, Web Design, Website Audits, Marketing Design, User Experience Design, Product Leadership, Mobile Design, Web App Design, Web App UX, Web App UI, Twilio, Web UX Design, Websites, eCommerce, Graphic Design, SaaS, Facebook Business Manager, Project Management, Conversion Rate, Web Analytics, Landing Page Design, Product Strategy, Layout Design, User Journeys, UX Wireframes, B2B, Business to Business (B2B), B2C, Interactive Prototypes, Customer Research, Qualitative Research, Qualitative Reports, Workshops, Workshop Facilitation, Wireframing, Mobile Apps, Maps, Gamification, User Flows, Web UI Design, UX Research, Email Design, Design Libraries, Mockups, User Onboarding, UI Audits, UX Audits, Conversion, Website Redesign, eCommerce Design, High-fidelity Mockups, Low-fidelity Mockups, Dashboards, User Validation, Stakeholder Management, Apps, Agile Project Management, Ideation, Stripe Payments, Logo Design, Booking Systems, Social Media Marketing (SMM), Instagram, A/B Testing, Agile Coaching, Booking, Wellness, Photography, Appointment Booking, Email, Email Marketing, Google Design Sprints, Lean Experiments, Conceptual Design, Social Media Platforms, Publishing, Highcharts, CMS Structure & Configuration, Interviews, Field Research, Lean Canvas, Startup Funding, Brevo, Womenswear, Fashion Design, Minimal UI, Streaming, Music Players, Management, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Project Leadership, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Non-fungible Tokens (NFT)
Experience
- User Interface (UI) - 12 years
- User Experience (UX) - 10 years
- Agile - 10 years
- Product Strategy - 10 years
- Figma - 7 years
- Remote User Testing - 6 years
- Startups - 6 years
- Prototyping - 6 years
Tools
- Figma
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