Position: Product Design Lead (SaaS, B2B)
Category: Design
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

- Designed Product Hunt awarded products
- Built Design System for SaaS product
- Top Rated freelancer on UpWork, 100% JSS
- Founded own design agency
I'm a product design manager with over 12 years of experience in UI/UX design. My primary specialization area is complex SaaS projects. 

I've been employed as a senior product designer and design manager in the world-known product company. Also, I worked as a freelancer on projects for AAA brands such as Coca-Cola, UN, Adidas.

2017 - till now
Product Design Manager, US startup, B2B SaaS big data product

2012 - 2017
UI/UX Designer, freelance

2009 - 2012
Web designer/developer, freelance

2006 - 2009
Graphic designer, freelance

Experience in:
· Leading and mentoring
· Improvement of existing processes inside the design team, and the creation of new ones
· Creating  backlog for the design team
· Candidate screening and interviewing
· Newcomers mentoring and coaching 
· Communication with the stakeholder 
· Design concept creation, demo conducting 
· Strong collaboration with BA, FE, 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
· Information Architecture
· Design guidelines
· Illustration design
· Motion design
· Visual design: style guide, UI-kit, assets
· Design systems
· Knowledge of Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design Guidelines
· Atomic design principles
· Responsive design
· CSS, HTML understandings
Looking for a company where I will be able to work with customers and have an impact on a product development, grow as manager and build a world-class design team.