Sara Kalinoski

Sara Kalinoski — Director, Product Design at Delivery Hero. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Sara Kalinoski

Director, Product Design

Sara Kalinoski is Director of Product Design at Delivery Hero, where she leads the teams shaping the core discovery experience across the company’s global restaurant and grocery marketplaces. Over five years at Delivery Hero she has guided design for landing experiences, ordering journeys and large scale consumer touchpoints that serve millions of users worldwide.
With more than 17 years of experience across San Francisco, Berlin, and Minnesota, Sara has crafted digital experiences for Apple, Audi, Zalando, Contentful and other high growth organisations. Her background spans product design leadership, visual design, design systems and cross functional collaboration.

Past talks

1 talk · 1 event

2026

UXDX EMEAMay 2026

Slowly, then suddenly and all at once: building a design-led culture at Delivery Hero

What does a real design led culture look like in day to day product work? At Delivery Hero, the UX team spent nearly 2 years reshaping how they showed up in planning and decision making across the organization. The turning point came with a high stakes project that revealed how much had changed. In this session, Sara shares the concrete practices, process shifts and leadership moves that turned design into a driving force for strategy and execution. Outcomes - Turn organisational turbulence and reorgs into drivers of focus and innovation - Use design led planning to get ahead of product, engineering and data dependencies - Elevate IC designers into trusted leaders - Create an experience north star and shared vision that aligns squads and stakeholders

Sara Kalinoski