Thomas Peterson

Started:
February 2024
Role:
UX Practice Lead
Connect:
LinkedIn

Based in Melbourne, Thomas is responsible for leading Salsa’s customer experience (CX) practice to deliver practical user-centred solutions for clients and internal products. The CX practice is also responsible for ensuring the continued evidence-backed evolution of CivicTheme.

Thomas started out his career at Salsa, and after over a decade has come back as a “boomerang”. He brings his considerable design expertise to help Salsa design and build websites, open data portals, Rules as Code solutions and digital products.

Skillset

  • User-centred design practices: user experience (UX), CX and service design
  • Product management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Product strategy

Previous experience

Thomas has over 12 years of experience in technology, ranging from his beginnings as a business analyst to his role as a VP of Product & CX for a global streaming service, and more recently a co-founder of his own ventures.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Industrial Design

Hobbies

  • Building products
  • Homelab
  • Squash
  • Cycling
  • Gardening
  • Spending time with my wife and two kids