Lead Product Designer Berlin, Germany

Background

An individual contributor focused on building User Experience through thought-out and beautiful interfaces for complex enterprise and customer-focused software.

Being currently involved in startups, I'm passionate about the intersection of design and business, especially about integrating business concepts with technical design and user interfaces.

Since 2006, I‘ve been designing user experience for projects from various industries: conversational interfaces, natural language processing, advertisement, telecommunications, and financial technology.

I dedicated the last five years to projects in the natural language processing and understanding domain.

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Professional experience

| Jul 2021 – Present Startup・https://www.voiceflow.com/ | Voiceflow Senior Product Designer

The main product of the company is a conversational assistant builder with the possibility to integrate with custom NLP models. In other words, it’s Webflow + Figma for a conversational experience.

My primary goal was a complete redesign of the existing platform given customer feedback that was accumulating for years and establishing a comprehensive design system for the future scale of the product and the team. | | --- | --- | | Jan 2019 – Jul 2021 Startup・https://chattermill.com/ | Chattermill Individual Contributor — Product Design

I was leading the design of the core product of the company – customer feedback analytics platform. My primary duties included product design, research, and building the design system.

At Chattermill, I’ve successfully accomplished the platform redesign and introduced Customer development practices. | | Feb 2018 – Jan 2019 Startup・https://chattermill.com/ | Invocable Product Designer and Product Owner

As a Product Designer and the first employee at the Y Combinator startup Invocable (ex. Storyline), I established the design principles and vision of the platform for building Amazon Alexa applications (skills) without coding.

I participated in customer development calls, product strategy, domain research on natural language understanding and created a unique approach to the design tool for building non-linear conversations. | | Nov 2015 – May 2018 Enterprise | Adamantium (RhythmOne) Senior UX Designer

As a part of the in-house team of 4 user experience designers, I was responsible for creating UX principles, visual language (design system), and interface patterns for the most valuable product of the company – real-time bidding advertising platform (DSP + DMP) for ad optimizers.

My main achievement was a rapid implementation and successful launch of a brand-new tool within the company workspace, conducting user tests and grooming it to ship the product to our target users. The peculiarity of the product was that due to the high level of automation and the necessity of new processes development, therefore, the design had played one of the leading roles in the successful introduction of the product and the possibility to gain the first outcomes shortly. | | Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 Enterprise・https://libertex.com/ | Forex Club UX Designer / Software Analyst

As a Software Analyst and User Experience Designer, I transformed users' and the company’s needs into structured requirements and UI prototypes for the trading platform Libertex and its tablet application.

The most valuable achievement during my time at Forex Club was a successful redesign of the web terminal application and building the flexible system that adjusts the UI and a subsequent experience based on a segment each particular client belongs to. | | May 2013 – Nov 2014 Enterprise outsourcing・https://ibagroupit.com/ | IBA Group UX Designer / Software Analyst

Holding the position of a UX designer and Software Analyst at the web-portals department, I participated in projects from financial, transport and telecom domains as a part of in-house and distributed teams.

I was awarded a Certificate of honor and successfully finished five projects mostly in the web-portal domain for large banks and telecommunication providers. | | Jun 2012 – Apr 2013 Enterprise・https://www.telecontact.ru/ | Telecontact UX Designer / Software Analyst

As a Software Analyst and User Experience Designer in a large outsourcing contact-center, I was focused mainly on communicating with enterprise clients and transforming their needs and business goals into detailed software specifications, UI mockups, and guidelines for the call-center software. | | 2009 – 2018 Remote consultant | Freelance UI/UX designer

Over 10 years of working as a freelance designer, I participated in projects for various industries: advertisement, banking, finance, business applications, telecommunication, transport. I worked as an independent remote consultant and as a member of distributed teams as well. |

Education

| 2006 – 2012 Minsk, Belarus | Minsk State High Radiotechnical College Software Information Technology Bachelor's degree | | --- | --- | | 2011 – 2012 Remote | QAI Global Institute Business Analysis for Software Development |

Designer’s toolbox

Anticipatory Design Approach, User Experience (UX), Requirements Analysis, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Design Systems, Usability Testing, Lean UX, Visual Design, Web Design, Dashboard Design, Product Design, Visual Design Language, Information Architecture (IA), Voice UI, Data Visualization.