Nick Menichelli

Nick Menichelli

Product Designer

Melbourne, AU.

About

Melbourne-born Product Designer currently crafting consumer experiences at carsales, following roles at Rome2rio and Isobar. Focused on impactful, purposeful work alongside collaborative teams that truly value design. Outside of work, I'm spending time with my kids, attempting gym routines, and defending Melbourne coffee to the death.

Work

carsales (CAR Group)

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Product Designer

Australia

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Highlights

Led design on carsales media SaaS platform called Ignition, working directly with various teams across the business.

Iterated on live products using performance and engagement data to refine the buy experience.

Currently leading and building a build & buy experience end to end through prototyping & AI.

Rome2rio

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UX/UI Designer

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Highlights

Designed and documented the first initial design system.

Optimised the core company product which resulted in 5% more user engagement & bookings.

Ran multiple company workshops, experiments and user tests.

Recruited 1 Senior UX Designer to join my team of 1.

Isobar

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Junior Designer

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Highlights

Worked on multiple digital campaigns across many different clients

Transitioned into the product design team and worked on the Jetstar account.

Designed multiple features for Jetstar including Price Watch and their 2nd iteration of the mobile boarding pass.

Gained a strong grasp of product design.

Rodeo -> Huckleberry

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Junior Digital Designer

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Highlights

Worked with multiple brands designing social media assets and assets for their website.

Designed pitch templates and brochures for the agency.

Betfair

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Junior Designer

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Highlights

Designed various artefacts for the company including newspaper and magazine ads and campaign assets for the website.

Mentored by company Senior Designer.

Education

RMIT University

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Certificate Design

Australian Academy of Design

Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Bachelor of Design Arts Graphic Design

Skills

Design

Interaction design, Prototyping, Visual design.

Systems

Design systems, Accessibility (WCAG).

Lead

Cross-functional facilitation, Workshop design, Critique culture.

Build

HTML / CSS.

Tooling

Figma, Claude Code, MCP-based AI workflows.