Sinthu Nathan
Sinthu Nathan · Portfolio · Odense, Denmark

Customer Insights & Growth Researcher

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01 · About me
Danish · nativeEnglish · fluentFrench · proficientOdense · Denmark

I am a customer insights researcher with a UX background. For four years at Universal Robots I worked with product managers, engineers and QA on discovery in the food and pharma industries: interviewing operators and plant managers in Asia, Europe and the US, mapping customer journeys, and building the competitor benchmarking model our leadership used for pricing and strategy. Since 2026 I sit on the board of Tennis Club Odense, where I built our event app and surveys myself with AI and use the data to decide what we do next. I like research that ends in a decision, and I like being the one who follows it through.

What your team gets

An owner of customer insights who turns continuous data into growth decisions.

02 · My experience
  1. 2026 to present
    Board Member · Tennis Club Odense (TCO)Voluntary position

    Board of Fyn's largest tennis club (478 members). Built and shipped the Sip & Serve event platform with AI; responsible for member CSAT, growth and press.

    This season: event management, leading the funding committee, marketing strategy, organisational structuring and process optimisation.

  2. Aug 2021 to May 2025
    UX Researcher · Universal Robots A/S

    Global discovery, journey mapping and competitive benchmarking for product, pricing and senior management, reporting from PM to CEO.

  3. 2019 to 2022
    Counter Manager · Magasin du Nord

    Retail leadership, customer-facing operations and team management.

Education
  • Digital Concept Development · UCL Erhvervsakademi & ProfessionshøjskoleAll A grades
  • Market & Management Anthropology (MMA) · SDU, University of Southern Denmark
Certifications
  • Microsoft Power BI & Data Visualisation Mastery
  • Future Skills Talent Programme (UCL)
  • Innovative Event Management
  • Project Management, Copenhagen Business Academy
01

Commercial & business analysis

  • Competitive benchmarking
  • Value-proposition analysis
  • Exploratory market research
  • Pricing & positioning input
  • Growth & channel analytics
02

Discovery & qualitative

  • Global discovery research
  • Contextual inquiry
  • Customer visits & interviews
  • Industry fairs
  • Observational testing
03

Mapping & modelling

  • Customer journey maps
  • Archetypes & personas
  • Requirements per target group
  • Segment requirement mapping
04

Quantitative & analytics

  • Surveys & NPS / CSAT loops
  • Power BI
  • Product analytics setup
  • Live dashboards
  • Data storytelling
05

AI in research

  • AI-drafted interview protocols
  • EnjoyHQ transcription
  • Semantic clustering
  • AI-assisted synthesis
  • AI as coding partner
06

Validation & feedback loop

  • Feature usability tests
  • Beta testing & feedback capture
  • Community building
  • Working with UX architects & designers
  • SMT / CEO share-outs
What your team gets

Five years of research across pricing, product and growth stakeholders, method, tools and commercial fluency.

03 · The insightful influencer

Gallup CliftonStrengths 34, completed November 2024. My five signature themes, and what they look like at work.

Full Gallup report (PDF)
Researcher and business strategist, in one profile

Most researchers stop at the insight. Most strategists start without one. My profile closes that gap: Woo and Communication get me into the room with customers and executives; Strategic and Input turn what I hear into patterns and options; Significance means I take the recommendation all the way to the decision, and own it.

For a company building experience-first products on a data-driven, iterative foundation, that is the profile you want owning customer insights: someone who can run global discovery on Monday, present the commercial case on Friday, and adapt when the plan changes on Wednesday.

Top 10 themes by domain
  • Influencing4 / 10
  • Relationship building4 / 10
  • Strategic thinking2 / 10
  • Executing0 / 10

Influencing and Relationship Building carry the top ten, anchored by Strategic and Input: win the room, read the people, spot the pattern, then tell the story.

What your team gets

A researcher who wins the room, sees the pattern and tells the story, measured by Gallup, not self-described.

04 · My top 3 case studies
Discovery → Product → Executive dashboard
Research & KPIs

UR Academy: CSAT loop and Training Partner research

Set up a CSAT for the Universal Robots Academy and made results transparent in regular webinars with the Training Partners. Engagement rose and the Academy shifted from assuming to measuring; the research refined focus and prioritised key topics.

“Sinthus research insights have made a tangible impact on our decision-making processes.”
Sven Krüger · UR Academy
Facilitation

Customer journey workshops

Facilitated cross-functional journey-mapping sessions, prep, moderation, synthesis. Focused on stakeholder alignment, not systems.

Field research

Robot unboxing research

Six months of observational research on how first-time customers unbox, mount and start a cobot: a 12-touchpoint journey map, prioritised insights and a threefold concept.

Read the case
What your team gets

A benchmark leadership decides with, a growth loop measured on real users, and segment discovery that shaped a roadmap.

05 · My deliverables

Market & User Research

  • Market and User Research

    75+ usability tests and surveys accumulated at Universal Robots, across markets and segments, from operators on the factory floor to non-customers.

    Seen in: Food industry case, one example
  • Actionable Customer Insights

    100+ documented customer insights on needs, pain points and opportunities, turned into strategic direction from product manager to CEO.

    Seen in: Segment roadmap, food industry
  • Customer Journey Maps

    End-to-end journey maps for pharma and food & beverage, and the robot unboxing journey.

    Seen in: UR journey map artefact
  • Behavioural Archetypes & Personas

    Research-driven archetypes with requirements per target group, anchored through several internal workshops I facilitated.

    Seen in: UR archetypes artefact

Commercial & Business Analysis

  • Competitive Benchmarking

    A customisable Power BI visualisation of our value proposition against key competitors, answering strategic, commercial and product-development questions from one model.

    Seen in: Power BI case
  • Pricing & Positioning Input

    Regular testing with non-customers, reported to Service on a fixed cadence; word-association tests for several departments showed what our external communication actually signals.

    Seen in: Power BI case, Pricing Director
  • Growth Metrics & KPIs

    NPS/CSAT loops and product analytics. A CSAT and transparent webinars at UR Academy lifted engagement and changed the Academy mindset; at Tennis Club Odense, NPS +66.

    Seen in: Sip & Serve case, NPS +66
06 · Methodology

How I run a research project end to end, stage by stage, with AI as one part of the work.

01Preparing fieldwork
Research questions and hypotheses agreed with the product manager; recruiting operators, plant managers and partners; discussion guides in Danish and English, tightened with Claude and ChatGPT.
02Interviews and transcription
Contextual interviews on site in Asia, Europe and the US, and online; recordings transcribed in EnjoyHQ where allowed, structured notes where not.
03Analysis and insight development
200+ interviews coded in EnjoyHQ and spreadsheets, clustered in Miro; I ask Claude to propose themes and point out what I have not covered.
04Report and presentation
Journey maps, archetypes, zone requirements and the Power BI benchmark, presented from product manager to CEO; AI drafts summaries and slide skeletons.
05Tracking and testing
Surveys (SurveyXact, SurveyMonkey), NPS/CSAT loops and product analytics, so the next decision starts from data, not from memory.
Stakeholder management, across every stage

It never sits in one stage, because every project needs it differently. From the first hypothesis to the last follow-up I keep product managers, the Pricing Director and senior management in the loop, so the insight is trusted before it lands and acted on after. It is what turns research into a decision.

What your team gets

AI handles the volume; I handle the judgement. Insights land while the decision is still open.

07 · My tool kit
Research & insight
  • UserTesting
  • UserZoom
  • EnjoyHQ
  • SurveyMonkey
  • SurveyXact
  • Power BI
Product & collaboration
  • Jira
  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Miro
  • Microsoft 365
  • Teams
  • SharePoint
  • PowerPoint
Design & prototyping
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • Acrobat
AI & productivity
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Microsoft Copilot
    Working principles
  1. 01
    Reduce uncertainty

    Replace assumptions with evidence.

  2. 02
    Connect insights to decisions

    Research ends in a decision, not a deck.

  3. 03
    Build systems, not isolated studies

    Continuous data compounds over time.

  4. 04
    AI for volume, human for judgement

    Hands-on with AI, human in the loop.

What your team gets

No ramp-up on tools, research, product and AI stack already in daily use.

08 · In their words

Verbatim LinkedIn recommendations. Nothing paraphrased, the pull-quotes are sentences from the originals.

Verify on LinkedIn
“Our senior management team, including the CEO, were tremendously impressed with the first results and how this could be used on an operational and strategic level.”
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Piotr M. Klima
Pricing Director · senior stakeholder, Universal Robots
Senior stakeholder
“Sinthus research insights have made a tangible impact on our decision-making processes.”
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Sven Krüger
UR Academy · Cobot education, Universal Robots
Worked together across teams
“Incredibly dedicated and detail oriented, a great ability to get the job done efficiently while maintaining a collaborative and friendly approach.”
J
Johannes Callø
Product Owner · Pharma, Life Science & Food & Beverage segments
Senior stakeholder
“She has a deep understanding of people and the UX process, always bringing valuable insights to the team.”
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Alexander Munkholm Madsen
Senior UX Consultant · Product Designer
Same team
What your team gets

Colleagues describe the same thing: insights with a tangible impact on decision-making.

09 · Contact me

If your digitalisation is data-driven and iterative and you need continuous data from your target audience, that’s exactly the job I want to own. This form or email, I reply within a working day.

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