Alessandro L. Piana Bianco
Strategic Innovation & Design — EU / MENA

Hire me

VP/Director-level strategic design leadership — aligning strategy, delivery, and governance so teams ship fast without losing quality. Deep experience across EU and MENA, in trust-sensitive domains (banking, identity, regulated environments).

If you are hiring: send a short brief (scope + constraints + success metrics). I’ll reply with fit, approach, and a first-week plan.

How to evaluate me in 3 minutes

Scan the proof map

Start from Proof of work — ranked claims with links to evidence and case studies.

  • Search for your domain keywords (e.g., banking, privacy, governance, state model).
  • Open a claim and review the linked evidence and cases.

Check governance operating model

Use Design Governance OS — operating model + templates (NDA-safe) — to see how I scale design quality in digital products without bureaucracy.

  • Decision rights, critique rituals, quality gates.
  • Pattern evolution rules, escalation paths, state model first.
  • AI/agent workflows: autonomy bounds, guardrails, auditability.

Validate leadership scope

Use the Résumé for scope and trajectory (org scale, domains, markets, years).

  • Director/VP-level responsibility, cross-org alignment.
  • 250+ workshops and complex stakeholder ecosystems.

Decide engagement mode

I work as a full-time leader or as an advisor when a fast ramp is needed.

  • Full-time: Director/VP Design, Head of Design, Design Ops / Governance leadership.
  • Interim / fractional: capability build, org reset, or high-stakes delivery.
  • Advisory: operating model, portfolio, AI/agent workflow design.

Signals of fit

You’ll like working with me if…

You need clarity + speed in messy orgs.

I design governance and decision-making so teams can execute without design-by-committee.

  • Principles that translate into shipped interfaces.
  • Rituals: reviews, metrics, quality gates that don’t slow delivery.
  • Service blueprints and state models that reduce support debt.

High-stakes contexts

Regulated, trust-sensitive products.

Identity, finance, and complex ecosystems where auditability and recoverability matter.

  • Consent + control, safe defaults, role-based access.
  • “No silent failure”: reversible actions and clear status.
  • Operational evidence surfaces: explain “why this”.

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Contact

Let’s discuss a leadership role, advisory work, or a complex product challenge.