Max Baasner
DE/EN
Career · professional experience · 2011 to today

Ten stations, ten results.

The right-hand column is not the job description, it is what came out of it measurably.

CV as PDF
Sept 2023 to today
3 years
Frauenfeld · Remote

visuell unterrichten · Self-employed

  • Alongside my main role I help Swiss freelancers, SMEs and educational organisations structure complex offers clearly and take them online.
  • Positioning, information architecture, UX writing, design and implementation in Framer.
  • Websites and order flows focused on clarity, trust and conversion.
  • Built the Shopify shop for Glarner Kaffee and tripled online revenue.
  • Developed visuell unterrichten, a workshop offering for teachers and school teams on visualisation and AI.
  • Both activities are deliberately capped at 20 percent combined and compatible with a permanent position.
3× revenue
online, Glarner Kaffee
June 2025 to Dec 2025
7 months
Zurich · Hybrid

Swisscom · Senior Care Journey Manager

  • Responsible for the end-to-end optimisation of core care and self-service journeys.
  • Increased the eCare rate by 20 percent through research, redesign and A/B tests.
  • Validated the service disruption page with 87 customers and fed the identified hurdles into the redesign.
  • Built an optimisation process for the most important journeys.
  • Trained team members in funnel analysis and conversion optimisation.
  • Owned analytics for sales, care and self-service.
+20 %
eCare rate
Sept 2023 to June 2025
1 year 10 months
Zurich · Hybrid

Swisscom · Lead UX/UI Designer, Insurance

  • Design ownership for building a new insurance offering at Swisscom.
  • Launched five insurance products within eight months.
  • Built the design system and Figma setup that carried five products in parallel.
  • Led a research process with more than 1,000 participants and twelve design variants.
  • Increased conversion per product by 16 to 110 percent.
  • Professionally led an external designer, trained an apprentice and mentored a trainee.
  • Worked with product, business, engineering, data, brand, legal and external insurance partners.
+16 to +110 %
conversion, five products
Aug 2022 to Sept 2023
1 year 2 months
Zurich · Hybrid

Swisscom · Senior Online Experience Manager

  • UX and conversion ownership for core product pages and sales flows in the Swisscom online shop.
  • Conceived and designed the new WLAN box product page. After launch, 600 percent more devices were sold and the product went out of stock.
  • Designed the digital launch of the kids mobile portfolio. Conversion rate of 1.5 percent against a benchmark of 0.9 percent in the regular mobile portfolio.
  • Restructured, redesigned and relaunched the buyback page for device trade-ins after years of neglect.
  • Ran A/B tests with Adobe Target and evaluated them in Adobe Analytics.
+600 %
WLAN box sales
Nov 2019 to Aug 2022
2 years 10 months
Winterthur · Hybrid

AXA · Customer Journey Designer

  • Redesigned complex claims and service journeys with interviews, usability tests, prototyping and behavioural design.
  • Reduced cancellations by 30 percent with a new service journey.
  • Reduced fraud cases by 12 percent through behavioural design.
  • Built a B2E design system in Figma.
  • Designed and validated expert interfaces for case handling and external partners.
  • Made documents and digital communication clearer and more consistent.
−30 % / −12 %
cancellations / fraud cases
Feb 2019 to Oct 2019
9 months
Wallisellen · On site

ubitec · UX Designer

  • UX and UI for digital products in Swiss banking and insurance.
  • Translated complex order flows and domain logic into understandable user flows.
  • Developed reusable components for different client projects.
  • Created prototypes and validated concepts with stakeholders and users.
  • Supported design colleagues in Vietnam professionally.
Client projects
first time agency side
May 2016 to Jan 2019
2 years 9 months
Wallisellen · On site

UPC Switzerland · User Experience & Conversion Manager

  • Built A/B testing and conversion optimisation at UPC from the ground up.
  • Established a test process from analysis and hypothesis to statistical evaluation.
  • Generated CHF 1.2 million in additional revenue.
  • Ran experiments in Adobe Target and evaluated them in Adobe Analytics.
  • Presented results and recommendations up to executive level.
  • Supported a website relaunch focused on usability and conversion.
CHF 1.2 m
additional revenue per year
Jan 2015 to Apr 2016
1 year 4 months
Wallisellen · On site

UPC Switzerland · Digital Specialist and Product Owner for Oracle RightNow

  • Responsible for digital service offerings and the Oracle RightNow platform.
  • Increased usage of digital services through UX research and clearer content.
  • Reduced support contacts with better self-service processes.
  • Introduced A/B tests for layout, guidance and copy.
  • Increased entries into digital forms by 166 percent.
+166 %
entries into digital forms
June 2011 to Aug 2013
2 years 3 months
Halberstadt · Hybrid

Harz University · Working student

  • Structured and implemented university websites and digital content. Improved the online presence through content management and web design. Supported research projects with the digital preparation of content.
Web & content
first hands-on experience
Feb 2012 to July 2012
6 months
Berlin · Germany

Materna GmbH · UX Intern

  • Supported the UX team with prototypes and mockups in Axure. Documented existing best practices and made them usable in projects. Gained first experience in UX consulting and user-centred product development.
Career choice
and it still holds today

Verifiable

Five insurance products live in eight months · research with more than 1,000 participants · +600 % WLAN box sales · +20 % eCare rate · +166 % entries into digital forms · CHF 1.2 m additional revenue per year · 3× revenue for Glarner Kaffee · apprentices and trainees trained

To the project archive
Setup

Frauenfeld, 40 minutes from Zurich · hybrid or on site · available by arrangement · Swiss C permit

What I need

Clear goals and room to design · flat hierarchies · a team I am allowed to build and support

What I bring

11 years of UX · honesty without politics · experience in training and mentoring people

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