Portrait of Jozsef Szabics, rendered as a mezzotint

Design and leadership.
Without the gap.

I lead a design team and ship alongside it — the strategic call and the hands-on work are one job, held to one standard.

PositionPlayer-coach / leads & ships
LocationLondon / Hybrid & UK / Remote
StatusOpen for opportunities
Clients & employers02 marks  [●■]
B2BB2CRECRUITMENTPRODUCT DESIGN
B2BB2CFUNDRAISING & TICKETINGPRODUCT DESIGN
B2BB2CFUNDRAISINGPRODUCT DESIGN
B2CHOSPITALITYDIGITAL EXPERIENCE
B2CGAMINGPRODUCT DESIGN
B2CFITNESSDIGITAL EXPERIENCE

Selected work

Proof of work
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Full case studies on request. Get in touch and I’ll talk you through them.

Career log

Sixteen years in the making
04 positions  [●■]
2024 — 26

Lead Designer

Reed.co.uk
2023

Senior Product Designer

Reed.co.uk
2021 — 22

Lead Product Designer

Enthuse

Worked withLondon Marathon Events, Great Run Company

2019 — 21

Product Designer

FSB

Worked withHungarian National Lottery Fund, JenningsBet, Fitzdares, QuinnBet

About me

The person behind the spec
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One job kept leading to the next, and each one asked for something the last one hadn't. A print shop taught me how things actually get made. Apparel and sportswear design taught me why efficiency matters and how a system holds together at scale. Agency work threw me at industries I had no business understanding — finance, gaming, gastronomy, telecommunications — and made me learn fast every time. My degree in Computer Science and Economics ran alongside all of it, giving me the science and the numbers to back that instinct up — choosing one over the other never felt like an option.

Moving to London reset a lot of that confidence on purpose. I went from running a team to being the newest, least experienced person in the room again, more than once. I learned to sit with that instead of rushing past it — that not knowing something yet is different from not being any good at it.

What stayed constant was curiosity about how things actually work underneath. Every industry I touched added a different question to carry forward: what makes people trust, what makes a system hold up at scale, what makes a decision defensible in a room full of people. That habit of asking better questions than I did the year before is what actually qualified me to lead a team of my own.

Jozsef Szabics at his desk, working across multiple screens

Off the clock

Shot on foot, and from the sky
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Walking, cycling or camping somewhere with worse weather than planned — the camera comes along. It's not brand decoration, it's most of how I spend a weekend.

Dambulla, Sri Lanka
Augusta, Italy
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
Anglesey, Wales
Gran Canaria, Spain
Pembrokeshire, Wales
Stromboli, Italy
Udawalawe, Sri Lanka
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