lang-uk/recruitment-dataset-candidate-profiles-english huggingface dataset:
Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

- Year-long product design course in Ukrainian Catholic University
- Several onsite usability testing sessions sold
- Three-week workshop in Japan on three projects
- Series of morning design meetups Design breakfast
As a team lead of 5 designers I was responsible for the professional development of my team members, conduction of competence analysis, writing professional development plans, conducting 1:1's, onboarding of the new designers, motivation, and professional support.

As part of the design office middle management, I took part in the development of the competence skills matrix, supported and conducting of team knowledge sharing sessions, participated in strategy workshops

I'm still working as a designer on projects and presales with the responsibilities described below ↓

Also, I was a UX designer on different projects in car hiring and flight planning domain.

My responsibilities on the project were:
- taking part in the pre-sale activities
– working according to design thinking methodology to research the problem and proposing a solution
– planning and conducting project discovery phase: from one-day to three-week everyday workshops activities
– elicitated protect requirements via customer and stakeholder interview, competitors research, product's analytics analysis
– creating UX artifacts that help to share common project understanding among the team: problem statement, problem definition, users/customer persona, user journey, empathy map, service blueprints
– based the aforementioned defined statements making sketches, wireframes, interactive prototypes from low- (clickable wireframes) to high- fidelity (interactions that use swipes, phone hardware capabilities, and advanced animation )
– providing high-fidelity UI mockups
– writings specifications and performing design quality control
– conducting usability testing sessions (in-person and remote) of prototypes and live products
– communicating with a development team and stakeholders

Apart from my main responsibilities, I was involved in teaching and mentoring activities, writing articles, and organizing the meetup
I'm looking for a lead designer/design director job to fulfill my passion for designing products and growing people.
Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
Experience: 7 years | English: upper

- Under my leadership, 35+ successful projects have been implemented;
- The projects created under my leadership are now recognizable in Europe in their respective industries. They have repeatedly won thematic awards;
- I managed a team of 5 designers + an Art Team that I created from scratch and grew into a team of professionals.
I have eight years of experience in UI/UX design, three years of them as the Head of Design in an IT company (iGaming). I have more than 30 successful projects under my guidance.
My first priority is the needs of the business. Increasing company revenues and effectively managing the design part of the company in collaboration with other teams is an integral part of life in a business environment. I consider both design skills and soft skills to be the most important in my work to create the best products on the market. I work with my own issue tracking systems to keep track of problem areas in the department and adjust retrospectives.
- Manage a team of designers, providing training.
- Be responsible for the design and management of all creative and technical design projects (design concepts; wireframing; mockups; prototypes; support; analytics; improvement; identity);
- UX/UI design creating and improving;
- Ready to join a startup and develop the best product on the market.
Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

• Launched productivity app
• ProductHunt
• Invested in ... 
• Advised 10 startups
• Launched several applications to AppStore;
• Redesigned big travel project and pumped up sales +500%;
• My products reached over 10 million users worldwide!
• Worked with consumer and B2B markets;
I've worked as a designer for 12 years and launched dozens of products and updates from 0 to millions of users. Worked in the best Ukrainian and worldwide companies.

Managed small creative and product teams, that were either building a product from scratch or growing existing product to the market. 

I can hire, manage, retain the design team across all competences (from concept code prototypers to illustrators) and build a strong brand. 

• I work closely with developers: every layer has a name and every animation has timing properties;
1. Great mission
2. Useful product
3. Founders that want to be
Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

I was tasked with visual design improvements of a company's products to give a company a strong foundation for its future growth.

I've built a strong team of web and motion designers.
Professional, combining creativity with 17 years of broad experience in Graphic / Web / UI-UX design to solve customer problems with crafted experiences and contemporary visual design that help drive business results. Specialising in digital products and branded experiences.

Highly motivated and focused individual, thrives on hard work and drive to succeed. I have been working with web and graphic design on staff for advertising agencies and fintech companies either as an individual or as part of a team. Experienced from highly advanced web designs on large and small scale web, mobile applications and corporate identity. Strong communicator and team player. Experienced to communicate eectively with executives, developers and marketing teams.
Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
Experience: 10 years | English: fluent

Awards:
• CSS Winner: Site of the Day
• IMA: Outstanding Achievement

Achievements:
• I have been designing a complex product with a multimillion audience.
Since 2006 I have been inventing and designing experiences that are beautiful yet easy to use. Experiences that are on the edge of user needs, business requirements, and technology restrictions.

For 15 years of designing experiences in the fast developing IT industry, I have been involved in creating desktop applications, game visual design, advertisement banner design and animation, and websites. Also, I have conducted full design cycles from early beginning, creating wireframes from rough sketches to rich prototypes, preparing a pixel perfect UI for all states, preparing documentation and delivering materials to developers with support and design control during implementation.

My specialty is product design that includes UX design (user flows, wireframes, and prototypes), UI design (interface design, conceptualizing and working on details), work on user feedback & data and applying changes to make a product even better.
I'm expecting to work on a complex product, preferably from scratch, where on the one hand, I can apply my knowledge and experience, and on the other hand, I can learn and deeper develop my skills.
Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: upper


Supervision of the design team – planning, evaluation, control of execution, brand strategy
Direct communication with Product Owners and representatives of other departments to define and form product vision, task design backlog, and presentation of results
Formation of a design strategy for the project, setting up workflows, organizing a design library and design hands-off procedures
Supervision of user research and user testing activities
Performing the functions of Senior Product Designer, if necessary – the formation of hypotheses, prototypes, concept design
Position: Head Of Design
Category: Marketing
Experience: 6 years | English: pre

At the age of 17, he completely designed and developed the design of a shop in the Metrograd shopping center in the center of Kiev called Takuro. Created his own graphic design brand "Ekvel". Worked with (companies / brands) Adidas Originals, Hero Company, Kyivstoner, Bob Jack, Kiev Gas, PublicLab.
Graphic designer
Kiev Gas, Kiev (Transportation of gas)
	Creation of memorable non-standard graphic solutions. Within the specified style / identity;
	Generation of creative ideas;
	Development and layout of design layouts for Outdoor and Indoor advertising;
	Collection of information about similar products, search for references.

 Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Ekvel, Kiev (Design and Graphics)
	Developing a full cycle of branding;
	Development of prints for clothing;
	Creation of artistic illustrations;
	Promotion in social networks;
	Development and layout of design layouts for Outdoor and Indoor advertising;
	Search and work with contractors for printing, textiles, packaging and souvenir production.

 Graphic Designer
Upwork (International Freelance Exchange)
Work on the exchange involves various projects. But mostly I worked on projects on branding and logo, poster design and photo manipulation.
New office, friendly team, interesting projects, good salary, loyal management, free English courses, work with professionals.
Work on creative projects.
Position: Head of Design / Art-Director
Category: Marketing
Experience: 4 years | English: upper

My own projects:
1) Agency for the development of corporate style (motiv_agency)
2) Motivational planners and notebooks (alplanist)
3) Clothing brand "CHEATER" (cheater.wear)
КIТ Group, Brand Designer
APR 2023 - AUG 2023
Visual communications, tone of voice, social networks strategy, market research

"Moloko vid Fermera" Company
Senior Graphic Designer
SEP 2021 - AUG 2022
Seasonal visual communications, printed materials development, marketing activities  

School of design "Art Design School",
Teacher of Graphic design
OCT 2020 - JUL 2021
Learning how to work with graphic programs and positioning yourself as a specialist

Freelance, developer of corporate style
MAY 2020 - JUL 2021

"Viridiann" Cosmetology Center,
Brand Manager / SMM / Graphic Designer
OCT 2019 - JUL 2021
Brand creation and promotion, visual communication, SMM, content creation, targeting

"Proeffect" Beauty School, SMM
JUN 2019 - DEC 2019
Management of social networks, copywriting, targeted advertising, filming

Astarta-Kyiv, Marketing Specialist
MAY 2018 - JUL 2018 (PRACTICE)
Position: Head of Design, Art Director
Category: Design
Experience: 8 years | English: fluent


I'm a Head of Design / Art Director with 8 years of experience in creative and IT industry. For the past few years, I have been leading the design team in creating products from scratch. This includes work with startups, SaaS products, e-commerce, finance/fintech etc.
Position: Head of Design / Art Director / Design Team Lead / Senior Designer
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: upper


Hello, my name is Alex. I worked as an art director in an independent creative agency, then worked as Head of Design in an English-Ukrainian company, and now I work as a Design Team Lead in an American IT outsourcing company. Before that, I worked in advertising, creative, and even event agencies. I have 10+ years of experience in all design areas. Was a graphic designer, then became a lead designer, then web, then UX/UI. I would probably like to develop as a Head of Design or Art Director, but all the proposed options are presented.
Position: Head of Design, Art-Director, Lead UI/UX Designer, Senior Product Designer,
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

• designed more than 40 successful digital products;
• leaded design teams and design projects worldwide;
• experience in product management and startups launching;
• mentored junior designers, provided lectures and workshops;
• created and successfully operate in the market more than 30 brands and trademarks;
• respectable UX certification
• international design awards
• jury member at international design competitions
T-shape design generalist with product thinking and 15+ years of experience.
Expertise in setup of product design team/process.
Experience in managing UI/UX design teams.

Clear understanding of full design process and product management from business analysis and research to detailed visual design and implementation. 

Strong hands-on knowledge of UX design, prototyping tools, user testing, mobile and responsive design, branding and HTML/CSS principles.

Skills: UX architecture & design, data mining and data driven design, user testing, usability evaluation, visual design, UI design, logo design, product management, product identity design, visual design, prototyping, iOS and Android, HTML/CSS, AR/VR, business and requirement analysis, user and marketing research, photography, direction, management, tutorings.
• professional and experienced company management that clearly understands and can communicate business needs and goals
• preferably looking for product company
• possibility to influence on direction and product vision is mandatory
• ready to provide part-time design consultancy services in processes or products
• do not interested in project or operation work at outsource
• considering remote or relocate (USA, UK, Europe)
• flexibility, openness to changes and reconstructions
• cross disciplinary design projects
• interested in AR/VR projects (except game dev)
Position: Head of Design, Art Director, Senior Product Designer
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: upper


Manage team of designers, design of web interfaces, design of mobile applications, landing pages.
Interesting projects, friendly team, qualified management, conditions for professional growth and comfortable working atmosphere
Position: Head of Design / CDO
Category: Design
Experience: 8 years | English: upper

Made ~+500% to business KPI's just by UX updates on my last project
I've been working for 8 years with different domains, such as fintech, crypto, healthcare, travel, booking and uber-like, real estate, professional platforms, e-commerce, CRM/ERP system, task management, IoT, with total audience of 10+ millions of users.
Position: Head of Design, Design Director
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

- Designed Corporate websites
- Designed Education portal
- Designed Help Center
- Increased brand awareness by designing brand identity and brand design system for 2 market-leading international companies
- Created design concepts for marketing campaigns
- Designed UI for market-leading software
- Designed number of websites and apps
- Designed all promo and marketing materials for the biggest exhibitions on the market
- Improved quality and consistency of designs by building design workflows and processes
- Built design team from scratch
- Established design internship in the company to grow professionals in-house
- Besides Graphic Design and Branding, I became competent in Design Management, Project Management, UX Design, Digital Marketing, Copywriting and Video Editing.
I am a professional with more than 10 years of experience of working as lead designer and team-leader in market-leading international companies.

I played key role in successful design projects: designed complex corporate websites and portals, has been involved in software design for the award-winning products, designed materials for biggest exhibitions in the world, built design team, lead and coached beginner designers.
A place with interesting and challenging projects where I can apply my skills & experience, share knowledge as well as learn from others, and continue professional and personal growth. A place with good and positive atmosphere.
Position: Head of Design, Design Director, Design Lead
Category: Design
Experience: 10 years | English: fluent

- Brought dozens of the complex products to market within the following domain areas: AdTech, Automotive, Document management, IoT;
- Reached department’s billability growth as a result of internal procedures optimization. Lead a team of 10 designers, billability increased by 20%;
- Launched company's Behance portfolio from scratch. “Best UI/UX solutions”: 3 of my public projects featured on Behance;
- Won #1 place on an international hackathon;
- Planned and held three design internship programs (1-3 months each) as mentor and coach - caused design team growth for 40%;
- Public speaker, regular participation in design-related conferences;
Working as a product designer for the last 9 years I get solid experience in converting business goals into the high-efficient and easy-to-use products using a design-centered approach for dozens of client all over the world.
My main competence is to create complex web- and mobile-based solutions from scratch by providing full-cycle design activities: building design strategy, investigation and analysis, testing hypothesis, prototyping, creating design concepts, leading the team of designers on the project, etc. Direct communication with the stakeholders remotely or onsite and efficient collaboration with the engineering team helps me to find the optimal solution to meet both business and users' needs, speed up the development process and reduce costs.
As a competent team leader and mentor, I help other designers to plan their activities, setup collaborative process for the team, define and meet possible risks, increase engagement in the project, and achieve better results. 

Main professional skills:
- Solid experience in designing complicated products for web, mobile, desktop and GUI for custom embedded devices. Strong understanding of platforms’ guidelines, specifications and development process;
- Familiar with all industry standard tools and techniques: Sketch, Figma, Adobe CC, Abstract, Zeplin, InVision, Flinto, Principle, Cinama 4D, Jira, Notion, etc. Familiar with HTML/CSS markup and frontend frameworks.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with various stakeholders or work onside with the customer;
- Project estimating, risk mitigation, design research, quality control, forming design strategy;
- Visual and interaction design including interactive prototyping, micro-interactions, animations, preparation of custom 2D and 3D graphics;
- Team leading, mentoring and knowledge sharing;
- Advanced English level.
Not interested in casino, betting and gambling-related projects.
Position: Head of Design, Design Director, Design Lead / Product Lead
Category: Design
Experience: 10 years | English: fluent


- UX lead and product owner for medical wearable device and connected health app (launched Q1 2019). 
- Previously senior designer in wearables market leader's in-house global UX team (Europe/SF), where I led product design for 1M+ users health platform from scratch to launch (featured in Wired, TechCrunch, Forbes).
- Designed and launched US healthcare mobile app, that led to $2.4M in funding.
- Studied User Experience Design at Cooper, San Francisco.

- Hands-on experience with behavior change and gamification techniques.
- Deep expertise in sensors, medical devices and wearables, holding BSc in Biomed Eng.
- Startup life / corporate career experience.
- High passion designing experiences for better health / safe aviation / affordable travel.
Position: Head of design, Design lead
Category: Design
Experience: 9 years | English: pre

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+Defining strategy, goals and metrics in balance of user needs, and business objectives.

+Researching the target audience, their needs, problems, and preferences.

+Studying competitors, the market, and analyzing them.

+Creating structure, organizing information in a product or service.

+Developing concepts based on user and market analysis.

+Interface design / Prototyping.

+Testing the product on users to understand how they react to and interact with the interface.

+Managing the team, assigning tasks, tracking their completion, coordinating the work of specialists.

+Communicating with other specialized departments and company management.
Mutually beneficial, productive cooperation.
Position: Head of design, Design lead
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent


Since 2015 I've been leading design practice in teams creating digital products and services for SMB and enterprise. Focused on providing scalable business-oriented design solutions for multiple domains including Professional Services, Travel & hospitality, Fintech, Legal, Dating, and more.

As a leader, I pursue developing the following strategic pillars for my team:
- business empathy
- critical thinking and analysis
- continuous learning and development
- multi-discipline collaboration

To make effective changes happen, I aim to treat the business I work for like a partner; and I constantly ask myself a focusing question: "How else can I and my team be helpful?”

I evangelize and build UX research practice as a powerful business capability for companies aiming to build first-class products and services.
+ Big and complex product(s)
+ Transparent and open-minded management
+ Clear goals and expectations
+ A passionate and proactive team
Position: Head of Design, Design Lead, Product Designer, UX-UI Designer
Category: Design
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

• 8 year work experience in advertising as a creative director, art-director, graphic designer and Illustrator
• 6 year run as a product designer, UI-UX designer
• Having golden awards on international festivals
• Bachelor's industrial design and artist school's diplomas
• Overall experience is over 16 years
ABOUT ME >

I'm a product designer with the overall experience of over 16 years. And starting my career as a Designer Generalist / Illustrator, I walked through the line of different roles, such as desktop publisher, graphic designer, motion and interaction designer, as well as UX-UI designer, art director, and even a creative director in an international advertising agency HAVAS Advertising Group.

I used to run my own design studio for a couple of years in two countries, Ukraine and Poland. And the last 7 years I worked as product designer on exciting projects.

PRODUCT DESIGN ESSENCE >

So, being a product designer means you are involved into many different projects at the same time. And these projects in turn, might have their own scope of tasks, that require different processes, such as Research, Studying on User Experience, Ideation, Prototyping, Visual and Interaction Design, Testing, Interviewing, Presentation, Implementation, Communication, Design Sprints and so on and so forth. In fact, there are lots of processes that help me to get my projects done and in time. 

One thing to remember: designer — is a team player. Thus, Communication and Collaboration are very valuable processes, since any project is basically a team game.

RESULTS OF EFFORTS >

I use numerous of different tools and practices.

For ex: Google Analytics is used for studying user experience on their interaction with website. Its data includes much information on user devices, screen resolution, type of OS, time spent on specific pages, behaviour scenarios, and more.

Hotjar service. Based on its recorded videos, I can track and understand the specific problems of the specific UIs, improve user interaction, get conversion rate, heatmaps and many other useful data.

On design and prototyping stage I prefer to use Usertesting.com That's a great tool in terms of setting up the target audience for the following testing. As well as getting feedback from them, when they comment loud on their thoughts and behaviour while interacting with UI. It is also, possible to conduct a real-time testing. With a specific group of users, record the session and then make deep a

AFTERWORD >

I manage and supervise the entire pull of work in design department, being as a resident of the business team and having closed-loop communication with the internal marketing staff.

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• Smart and adequate management
• Diverse and challenging tasks
• Friendly and professional staff
• Informal and creative vibe
• Ability to work remotely