Sam Marks

Design Leadership

Building what's next with Product, AI & Design.

Over the last 20 years I've helped organisations solve complex product challenges by bringing together design and product strategy, AI and leadership.

From scaling global design organisations to shaping AI-powered product strategy, I work with ambitious teams to identify opportunities, align stakeholders and build products that create measurable customer and business value.

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20+ years product design leadership·Strategic design leadership·Product strategy & innovation·UX Director·AI product design & human-centered AI·Enterprise SaaS & platform products·Design systems & design ops·Team leadership, coaching & mentoring·Organizational transformation·Customer experience strategy·Cross-functional leadership

I've led strategic design and product initiatives that align customer needs, business goals, and emerging technologies to drive growth and transformation across organizations including:

Cannes Lions
Coca-Cola
Indeed
Tottenham Hotspur
Vodafone
UAL
The Electoral Commission
Standard Life

01What I help with

Three ways I create impact

Product strategy, AI transformation, and design leadership for ambitious teams.

Product Strategy

I help organisations identify the biggest opportunities before a single feature is designed.

From customer discovery and executive workshops to product vision, roadmap definition and prioritisation, I connect user needs with commercial goals to ensure teams are solving the right problems—not simply building more software.

03Leadership impact

Beyond visual design

Evidence of leadership across teams, products, and organisations.

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Design systems scaled

04Testimonials

What leaders say

I worked alongside Sam at Indeed Flex, where he led design across many genuinely varied briefs a SaaS rebrand, our AI agent for clients, complex reporting dashboards, and a hybrid prototyping tool to support the revenue team. That breadth is notable because Sam handled each with the same steady, considered approach rather than treating them in the order of prestige.

Sam uses naturally high emotional intelligence in a role that demands it. Design leaders sit in difficult territory between product, engineering, and commercial stakeholders who rarely want the same thing at the same time. Sam navigated that without drama, adapting his style to whoever he was in the room with and keeping the work moving.

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Andrew Pendrick

Head of Product, JustPark

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