Design your way

Elevated design careers and strategic leadership through mentorship, craft, and intuitive insight.

Nina Mehta is your design pair — a coach for product designers and a strategic partner for technical companies.

With over a decade of leadership experience and 20+ years in design, she helps individual designers grow into confident leaders. She builds resilient, customer-centered teams that drive business impact.

Nina’s expertise lies in crafting seamless experiences across product, brand, and design systems teams. She has scaled global design orgs working on SaaS products, developer tools, and supplier-side marketplaces and customer-centered applications of AI. Nina’s approach is warm, direct, and grounded in the belief that great leadership is a craft — built with collaboration, care, and intention.

Let’s work together. Write to Nina at nina@bitteschon.co or book a 25min call.

Services for Designers

INDIVIDUALS

As a design leadership coach, Nina works with designers in transition. She supports folks on small teams and emerging leaders who are growing their practice without strong in-house mentorship. She helps build career paths, refine craft, and develop skills needed in collaborative, cross-functional environments.

  • Career and leadership development for solo designers

  • Hands on design pairing, reviews, and critique

  • Building influence and cross-functional collaboration skills

  • Portfolio and presentation reviews

With over 20 years in design and a decade leading teams, Nina offers mentorship grounded in real-world leadership, helping designers not just succeed in their roles, but scale their impact.

TEAMS

Services for Companies

Nina joins teams as a fractional design leader or seasoned hands-on designer, offering experienced support as you scale. She works with companies to bridge leadership gaps, mentor growing teams, and deliver high-quality design execution — ensuring both the craft and strategy of your design practice are built to last.

  • Design vision and experience strategy

  • Team development and leadership coaching

  • Organizational design and operational scaling

  • UX/UI execution, design systems, and service mapping

With over 20 years in design and a decade leading global teams at companies like Stripe, Twilio, Mailchimp, and Pivotal Labs, she brings the experience and clarity to help design organizations thrive.

Let’s work together

You are welcome here

I invite individuals of all identities and abilities to partner with me in a safe and respectful space.