Designer shaping delightful products and the teams behind them. Driven by customers, craft & curiosity.

Designer shaping delightful products and the teams behind them. Driven by customers, craft & curiosity.

Currently leading Product Design at sevdesk ↗

Design × Product

Max Tillich

sevdesk

sevdesk

Redesign & Design System

Accountant Mode

Agentic Accounting

New Mobile App

Command Pallette

Forming Accounting Habits

Forming Accounting Habits

Leading product design at sevdesk across growth and core domains. I shaped product & design vision, drove a company-wide redesign, the new app and led horizontal initiatives across Growth, Core & Tax Advisors. Introduced a token based Design System, adopted across all touch points.

2023–Today · Scale-up (exit) · Manager → Director

Clark

Clark

Smart Insurance Wallet

Smart Insurance Wallet

Redefined the first mile and core experience of CLARK’s smart insurance wallet. Informed by insights from usage and qualitative data, I designed experiments and vision prototypes in close collaboration with Product and Engineering leads, leading to increased retention and a positive impact on sales.

2021–2023 · Scale-up · Senior → Lead

Donut

Donut

Boosted Yield with DeFi

Boosted Yield with DeFi

I led the pivot of our jargon-free Bitcoin micro investing app to become an engaging savings product. We democratized access to dynamic interest rates on decentralized markets that get a boost for bringing friends.

2020–2021 · Early Stage (US) · Senior Designer → Product Lead

mtillich@gmail.com

mtillich@gmail.com

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

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  • Asking what if...

  • taming noodles

  • <3

  • vibe coding audio apps

  • dough hydration 65%

  • 💡🏃🌄

  • South of Berlin brutalism

  • $tokenz

  • Asking what if...

  • taming noodles

  • <3

  • vibe coding audio apps

  • dough hydration 65%

  • 💡🏃🌄

  • South of Berlin brutalism

  • $tokenz

  • Asking what if...

  • taming noodles

  • <3

  • vibe coding audio apps

  • dough hydration 65%

  • 💡🏃🌄

  • South of Berlin brutalism

  • $tokenz

Clarity, Trust & Play

Clarity, Trust & Play

I’m a Product Designer and leader based in Berlin on a mission to build products that give people the financial edge and peace of mind to do more with their life.


My work feels most rewarding when talking to customers becomes routine to understand problems and find opportunities that inform strategy, not just a design maturity scale. When teams rally around visions they've shaped together. When success metrics actually reflect whether people found value in our solution. When customers tell their friends about a delightful experience that we have shipped. This is where desing matters most. I strive for creating such environments, recently leading hands-on and through the teams I built for scale-ups in finance, insurance and accounting.


Design is a waste in isolation. I coach designers to be strong counterparts in product discussions and to work as true partners with engineering. The designers I work with earn their seat at the table by making decisions grounded in principles and customer insight, deliberately leaving room for intuition and play to find solutions that can make the difference.


The highest leverage nobody talks about is getting the mandate and support for pushing the bar from good to great. I approach that by building alliances across product, engineering, and marketing around a shared understanding of who we're serving and what quality means.


Let's build.

I’m a Product Designer and leader based in Berlin on a mission to build products that give people the financial edge and peace of mind to do more with their life.


My work feels most rewarding when talking to customers becomes routine to understand problems and find opportunities that inform strategy, not just a design maturity scale. When teams rally around visions they've shaped together. When success metrics actually reflect whether people found value in our solution. When customers tell their friends about a delightful experience that we have shipped. This is where desing matters most. I strive for creating such environments, recently leading hands-on and through the teams I built for scale-ups in finance, insurance and accounting.


Design is a waste in isolation. I coach designers to be strong counterparts in product discussions and to work as true partners with engineering. The designers I work with earn their seat at the table by making decisions grounded in principles and customer insight, deliberately leaving room for intuition and play to find solutions that can make the difference.


The highest leverage nobody talks about is getting the mandate and support for pushing the bar from good to great. I approach that by building alliances across product, engineering, and marketing around a shared understanding of who we're serving and what quality means.


Let's build.

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