Position: Head of Design
Category: Design
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- 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.