Position: Head of Design / Principal Product Designer
Category: Design
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- RedDot 2020 Design award in Brands & Communication
- Domains: FinTech, E-commerce, Healthcare, Travel
I'm a professional designer with over 8 years in UX/UI design and 3 years of experience in managing design teams. Right now I’m working as a Head of Design in an award-winning app design and development company.

Experience in:
· Management of big design teams with different skill levels
· Improvement of existing design processes, and creation of new ones from scratch
· Distribution designers to projects
· Pre-sale meetings with clients
· Development of design department strategy
· Project estimation
· Candidate screening and interviewing
· Newcomers mentoring and coaching 
· Participation in onsite workshops with clients 
· Communication with the client 
· Design concept creation, demo conducting 
· Strong collaboration with BA, UX, FE, BE, QA teams

Soft skills:
· Team leadership
· Adaptability/flexibility
· Customer focus
· Estimation and planning
· Mentoring, coaching
· Teamwork and collaboration
· Problem-solving
· Time management

Hard skills:
· Briefings
· Research
· Storyboard and user journey
· Wireframing
· Concept design
· Interactive prototyping
· Color theory & typography
· Design guidelines
· Product interface design
· Knowledge of Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design Guidelines
· Atomic design principles
· Visual design: style guide, UI-kit, assets
· Responsive design
· Knowledge of Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban
· CSS, HTML understandings

Design & collaboration tools listed below:
- I want to lead a team of designers by building design processes, organizing work, and working with the team shoulder to shoulder.
- I'm not interested in dating, gambling, or the porn industries.