My Career
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🏠 1870 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC V6K 3G2 Canada
📞 +1-672-762-4607
✉️ lea.dingler@gmail.com
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Work Experience
Proprietor, Vancouver (Remote) for Noxtua AG
October 2025 - now
Senior User Experience Researcher
- Establishing user research operations, including research processes, documentation standards, and a participant panel.
- Designing, planning and conducting deep qualitative research studies (e.g. interviews, contextual observations, diary studies).
- Building and maintaining a research insights database to ensure knowledge is accessible and actionable across the teams.
- Creating and maintaining personas and customer journeys, as well as research templates and best practices.
- Bringing user insights into the product development process and identifying opportunities for innovation.
- Helping define the strategic direction of our Legal AI by understanding and articulating what really matters to our users.
- Collaborating with interdisciplinary stakeholders from Executive Level, Product Management and Domain Experts in Legal, Design and Engineering in both German and English.
CARIAD SE (Berlin, Germany)
March 2020 - September 2025
User Experience Strategist & Researcher
- Developing of a key-performance-indicator system for UX on company level
- Carrying out the planning, conduction, analysis and result presentation of mixed-methods user studies
- Developing UX concepts for autonomous and assisted driving functions (both wireframing and build-up of pixel perfect screens with the company design system)
- Developing and maintaining of a research roadmap for our assisted driving system
- Leading an interdisciplinary UX Team and aligning with interdisciplinary stakeholders as a product owner
- Setting up research structures in the Software-Defined-Vehicle Hub
- Managing the UX architecture and requirements
- Leading meetings in both English and German
Volkswagen Group Innovation (Wolfsburg, Germany)
July 2019 - February 2020
Master Thesis Student & Intern
- Master Thesis with the subject "How should autonomous vehicles speak with us in the future? -
Development of a test methodology for evaluating external communication" - Ideation and result presentation in an interdisciplinary project on "Sustainable Mobility"
Mailbutler GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
May 2018 - June 2019
Working Student - User Interface Testing
- Software-Testing and Programming automated UI-Tests
- User Interface Development
Volkswagen Group Innovation (Wolfsburg, Germany)
September 2017 - February 2018
UX Research Intern
- Conduction simulator and interview studies
- Analyzing of qualitative & quantitative data
- Presenting the results of these mixed-methods user studies
German Aerospace Center (Braunschweig, Germany)
April 2014 - April 2017
UX Researcher (part-time) & Bachelor Thesis
- Conduction simulator and interview studies
- Analyzing of qualitative & quantitative data
- Presenting the results of these mixed-methods user studies
- Bachelor thesis with the subject „Automation with transparency – Gaze behaviour in
SAE Level 2 and 3“
Educational Background
Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2017 – 2020
Master of Science Human Factors (GPA: 4.0)
- Project Management for an interdisciplinary Team cooperating with an industry client for
research regarding virtual reality in the workplace - Presentation of interdisciplinary project at a german conference for ergonmics
- Coding and research project regarding the applicability of gaze interaction to interact with
a smart home
Technical University of Braunschweig (Braunschweig, Germany)
2013 – 2017
Bachelor of Science Psychology (GPA: 3.0)
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