Scott Bloomer

Experience

• Strategic Design Partner

  Mar 2025 – present

  Lariat

  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand · Hybrid

  • Embedded design strategist supporting growing businesses with senior input across brand, UX, and digital strategy.
  • Works with founders, product teams, and marketing leads to simplify complexity and ship purposeful design with measurable outcomes — from net-new brand work through elevating existing products.
  • Recent work spans SaaS product design, brand strategy and identity, web design and development, user research and testing, and creative direction for international clients.

• Lead Designer

  Sep 2023 – Feb 2025

  Voyage

  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Built scalable design systems in close partnership with developers and stakeholders.
  • Combined user research, collaborative workshops, and modern tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) so solutions could grow with the business while improving UX and meeting commercial goals.

• Creative Director

  Jan 2018 – Sep 2023

  NZ Digital

  Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Led digital transformation programmes across sectors, joining brand strategy with digital marketing for measurable impact.
  • Ran strategic workshops and collaborative design with multidisciplinary teams to deliver data-led experiences that resonated with users.

• Senior Digital Designer

  Aug 2017 – Sep 2023

  NZ Digital

  Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

  • Hands-on UX and product design across SaaS, web, and native surfaces; prototyping, research, and web build collaboration.
  • Coaching and mentoring designers and developers within long-running client engagements.

• Senior Digital Designer

  Jun 2013 – May 2017

  Gavin Willis Creative Marketing

  Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom

  • Focused on UX/UI for websites and digital platforms, grounding work in research and testing.
  • Delivered cohesive work across print and digital within creative teams, balancing brand consistency with user needs.