Fractional leadership
Player/coach for growing design teams
This is your time
I help teams drive impact through delivering high quality experiences and efficient operations. Teams that communicate and collaborate well align faster on customer and business problems and ship with ease—I can help your teams do this and do it well. Hire me as your fractional exec while you focus on scaling and building a team to last.
Meet your mentor
Nina Mehta designed and led teams at early Stripe, Mailchimp, Twilio, and Pivotal Labs in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia. As the founder of Bitteschön Studio, she specializes in building design teams from the ground up and developing talent inside high-growth startups. She is focused on advising founders, coaching designers, and recently worked with Designer Fund, a premier design-first investment firm. Nina lives in Brooklyn where she is training to be a licensed psychoanalyst.
What you get
Design Leadership
Part-time leadership to help fill management gaps or help your design team and company scale to the next phase of company growth. I can run your critiques, level up work, and organize your design operations so teams work together with more efficiency and impact.
Consulting, Facilitating & Coaching
Drive impact through higher quality and efficient execution
Develop and coach design team execution and collaboration
Interviewing & Hiring
Design Ops & Org Design
Design Execution
Full service product design from customer journeys, wireframes, ux design, and design systems and pair with designers on your teams for a smooth handoff.
UX/UI Design
Customer Research
Customer Journey Mapping across product verticals
My work offers guidance for companies who build software and have an engineering and product org with the plan to eventually scale their design team.
Teams without dedicated design leadership.
Companies navigating growth, restructuring, or new product work.
Teams that need a manager who can lead and contribute.
Organizations looking to elevate design quality and team maturity.
