Hey, I’m Anna Youngs a Community Founder & Design Leader.

Most recently, I’ve been managing teams designing global-scale products at Peakon Employee Voice for Workday.

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I’ve spent a decade in Product, setting direction and creating stability for teams navigating growth and change across start-ups, agencies, and global organisations.

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✦ 10 years learning how different teams work best
Collaborating with Product and Content Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Business Leaders to help teams understand each other and thrive through change.

✦ 6 years leading design teams
Fostering growth, impact, and stability to drive transformation and build teams others aspired to work with.

✦ Facilitating cross-functional collaboration globally
Bringing people together and strengthening connection, whether in-person or remote.

✦ Co-founded Triangirls
Filled a gap in community and connection, giving women and non-binary professionals in London a space to learn, connect, and laugh together.

✦ Hosted Design Lab London & Berlin
Created inspiring and educational evenings for the design community, building relationships and shared growth.

✦ Championing Wellbeing
Helping people feel supported, understood, and empowered, drawing on my personal experiences with neurodiversity. Mental Health First Aider Certified to provide inclusive and safe spaces.

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How I think & lead

I balance joy with candid communication, making space for ideas that actually work.

I believe the best products emerge at the intersection of creativity, inclusivity, and empowered problem-solving.

I create environments where people feel safe to experiment, supported to grow, and confident to challenge assumptions. Strong convictions, loosely held.

For me, design leadership means balancing vision with care for the people who bring that vision to life.

I think globally, embracing differences while blending product, people, and purpose.

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Scared of public speaking and doing it anyway.

Scared of public speaking and doing it anyway.

Learning People + Triangirls

↗ Women In Tech — Closing the gap (recorded event at Deliveroo HQ)

Design Club + Triangirls

↗ What happens when women empower women (recorded event at Monzo HQ)

Team Triangirls

Codurance + Novoda

Snippets of Projects

The work shown here represents both hands on design work and projects I’ve led as a Product Design Manager. In more recent years, my role has been to set vision, guide strategy, challenge assumptions, and provide design critique — enabling the team to produce their best work. While I’ve been deeply involved in shaping outcomes, the credit also belongs to my talented colleagues who continued the heavy lifting to bring these ideas to life.

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↗ Workday / Peakon Employee Voice: Design Leadership & Management

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↗ Punkt / MC01: Research, Strategy & Vision

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↗ Tantalum + AT&T / HARMAN Spark: Product Design & Management

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↗ Bundle / iOS App: Brand and Product Design, Vision & Strategy

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↗ Coople / Flexible Work: Interaction, Research & Product Design

Resources

This is a published self assessment career progression framework can help to make sure you can reflect on your own career journey as well as being able to support and guide your team at a personal and professional level while also reaching alignment with the team/organisation's growth strategy. It provides a better understanding of the team dynamics and allows you to identify personal preferences, needs and motivators as well as opportunities for people to pair and mentor each other.

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Triangirls Community

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↗ Design Calendar / International Women’s Day 2020

Triangirls is a community for women and non-binary professionals in tech, created to spark honest conversations about confidence, leadership, and career growth. What started as a small casual meetup in 2018 after work, became a series of sell-out events bringing together hundreds of people to learn, share, and support each other. With inspiring speakers, industry partnerships, and mentorship for first-time speakers, Triangirls continues to champion inclusivity and empowerment across the tech industry.

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Deliveroo

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Monzo

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Intercom

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Trainline

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Farfetch

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Idean

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Cleo

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Compare The Market

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Graphy

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Beamery

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Deliveroo ✦ Monzo ✦ Intercom ✦ Trainline ✦ Farfetch ✦ Idean ✦ Cleo ✦ Compare The Market ✦ Graphy ✦ Beamery ✦