A force multiplier for design

I design the systems, create the strategies, and build the teams that make great products possible.

Alexa Kaminsky
Leadership & Org Design

Building a unified, strategic, and future-ready UX organization

bol · Director of UX · 2024–2026

Unified fragmented UX teams into a strategic, customer-led function. Aligned leadership, professionalized roles, and embedded customer insight into company strategy.

Transforming former business analysts into a product design team

bol · Head of Design · 2023–2024

Transformed 10 former business analysts into a collaborative product design team by establishing expectations, addressing skill gaps, and fostering a strong team culture.

Strategy & Vision

Consumer experience vision for 2028

bol · Director of UX · 2025

Led a cross-functional effort to define a consumer experience vision grounded in changing customer behaviors. Influenced 2026 planning and became a shared reference point across the organization.

Project Polaris: Vision for the customs workspace

Flexport · Design Manager · 2022

Initiated and led a UX vision that identified 7 key opportunities and produced 11 product concepts, 7 of which were adopted into long-term strategy.

Product Design

Automating the filing of a customs entry

Flexport · Design Manager · 2023

Led a 3-person UX team to envision and execute a 0-to-1 platform for automating customs entry, targeting a 50% reduction in cost to serve.

Long stay weekly & monthly discount

Booking.com · Lead Product Designer · 2020

Led a UX team to create an MVP enabling accommodation partners to offer weekly and monthly stay rate plans for competitive pricing.

Onboarding new accommodation partners

Booking.com · Lead Product Designer · 2019–2020

Defined a guidance framework across five key onboarding milestones to help new accommodation partners become profitable faster.

Reusable PGA product profiles

Flexport · Senior Product Designer · 2022

Designed an end-to-end workflow enabling customs brokers to create reusable product profiles, directly reducing cost to serve.

Side Projects

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iOS App

Fret Not

I built Fret Not, a simple guitar songbook app, to explore how AI-assisted development tools are reshaping the product development process. Going from idea to the App Store in one week, it gave me firsthand insight into what these tools make possible. Now at v1.4.1 with over 150 downloads, it's also genuinely useful!

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Resources

Alexa kayaking on the Amsterdam canals

About Me

I'm a design leader who helps teams focus on the right problems and turn ambiguity into clear direction. I've spent the last decade building and leading design teams at scale, working across product, design, and strategy.

What drives me is making complexity manageable: aligning people around a shared understanding of the customer, raising the bar on craft, and helping organizations move from good intentions to real outcomes. Not just shaping interfaces, but shaping decisions, priorities, and how teams learn.

Originally from New York, now based in Amsterdam. When I'm not working, I'm usually running, traveling, exploring new food and music, or out in nature with my dog, Oreo.

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