Portrait of Geon-Young Lee

Geon-Young Lee

Senior Strategic Product Designer

Aviation & Banking · WHU MBA Candidate

Senior Strategic Product Designer with experience leading design on large-scale digital products, owning the full arc from problem framing to measuring impact. Specialised in constraint-heavy industries such as aviation and banking.

Work Highlights

  • Condor Website Seat & upgrade booking
  • Condor App Native search experience
  • Postbank BestSign App Standalone & integrated BestSign authentication
  • FYRST Banking App Migration onto a multi-branded design system
  • Deutsche Bank App Product discovery of Personal Finance Management
  • Business Banking Hub 0 → 1, from discovery to end-to-end delivery

Experience

Condor Airlines

Jul 2023 – Present
  1. Senior Strategic Product Designer

    German airline. Booking experience across a new web platform and the native app.

    • Seat selection & upgrade booking (web) — Led the end-to-end design of two journeys: seat selection, delivering the first 3D seat map as a German airline; upgrades, defining the business logic behind one-click bulk purchases. Together they are the airline's two largest ancillary revenue streams.
    • App search experience (native app) — Redesigned the native search experience, optimising the flight booking flow. Contributed to the app's highest App Store rating since launch (4.4) and its highest revenue on record in 2025.
    • New website launch communication — Owned the launch communication strategy across legacy site, email, and the new platform. Lifted engagement, traffic, and email subscriptions.

Deutsche Bank AG

Jun 2020 – Jul 2023
  1. Senior Product Designer, Private Bank Dec 2021 – Jul 2023

    Postbank–Deutsche Bank IT migration: ~18M customers, ~50B data sets, €300M targeted annual savings.

    • Postbank BestSign app — Rebuilt the information architecture and interface across standalone and integrated authentication, now used in the new Postbank and Deutsche Bank apps. Reduced authentication error rates, contributing to a 4.6 App Store rating.
    • FYRST mobile banking app — Led the migration of the existing banking app onto a new multi-branded design system, through to launch.
    • Personal Finance Management discovery — Ran discovery and early concept for the new Deutsche Bank app. Secured roadmap prioritisation and development budget.
  2. Senior Product Designer, Corporate Bank Dec 2020 – Nov 2021
    • Business Banking Hub (0 → 1) — Set product direction through customer research and a series of workshops with stakeholders across business, technology, and design. Launched the bank's first SME-dedicated digital hub in 10 months.
  3. Product Designer, Corporate Venture — Yunar (Ambidexter GmbH) Jun 2020 – Nov 2020
    • User profile & closure experience — Identified improvement areas through a UX audit and redesigned the information architecture and experience of the user profile. Designed the closure experience and communication when the parent company discontinued the venture.

homify GmbH

May 2016 – Aug 2019
  1. Content Design & Marketing Manager
    • Korean market content & design — Set strategy and led a team of 8 creative editors. Highest traffic since launch; recognised as Naver's #1 interior design blog.

Education

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

  1. Master of Business Administration (MBA), Candidate 2026 – 2028 (Düsseldorf)
    • Financial Times MBA 2025 — #1 in Germany
    • Awarded the 2026 Women in Business Scholarship
  2. Executive Education – Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship Essentials Nov 2025 (Düsseldorf)
    • Executive-level program on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship
    • Grade 1,3 sehr gut / A- (90/100)

Hanyang Cyber University

  1. B.A. Architecture & Space Design 2015 – 2018 (Seoul)
    • Grade GPA 4.17 / 4.5 (ECTS 1,3 sehr gut)

Recognitions

Public Speaking at Zalando

Jul 2025
  • Game-changing Mentorship

Public Speaking at University of Europe

Nov 2024
  • The Quiet Impact of Introverted Designers

Deutsche Bank Global Hackathon Winner

2021 & 2022
  • Transforming Mental Health (2022)
  • Banking on AI for Accessibility (2021)

Community

Founder at BDE – Berlin Design Events

2023 – Present
  • Berlin design community of 1,000+ members

Community Leader at Friends of Figma Berlin

2024 – Present
  • Currently on a break

Certified Design Mentor at University of Europe

2025
  • Co-created the Design Mentorship Program