cryptohaki

Head Of Product And Design

Amik is a multi-disciplinary product and design leader living in New York City. Attracted to intractable problems within regulated industries, he has spent more than 15 years working with emerging technologies.

He believes that culture drives product and design, not the other way around.

The difference is subtle but important.

As a first principles driven thinker, his approach focuses on understanding the "whole person", in order to reduce complexity to the lowest usable denominator. Through frameworks, strategic prioritization, and a consistent founder mentality, he has brought behavior-changing innovations to the forefront of the Crypto, DeFi, Fintech and Healthtech industries. He continuously evolves his approach to the ever-changing context and unpredictable nature of the world in which we all live. Every single day, 90% of Americans use an experience that he designed.

He studied Human-Computer Interaction at New York University where he completed his master's thesis on interoperability and decentralized healthcare systems. He is an avid boxing fan and skateboarder, but not at the same time.

Experience: 10 years

Yearly salary: $200,000

Hourly rate: $130

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇺🇸 United States

Experience

Head of Product and Design

Kresus Labs

2023 - 2024

Responsible for all aspects of Web3 Product and Design. Led an 8-person team interfacing with a 40-person engineering team, managing the product life cycle. Developed novel NFT purchase flow, facilitating partnerships with Sotheby’s, Christies, and Pace, enabling instant wallet creation in respective metaverses. Established company’s first design KPIs and OKRs, streamlining processes. Reduced app onboarding time from over 2 minutes to under 30 seconds. Introduced Vault feature in mobile app, simplifying UX by consolidating 10+ Arbitrum gas fees into one.

Chief Product and Design Officer

Ridian

2022 - 2023

Responsible for all aspects of the Product, Design, and Marketing organization – Including quantitative trading products and algorithms. Built and managed a cross-functional product design team by developing a hiring plan and creating an effective organizational structure to increase headcount by 50% while maintaining capital efficiency of $1.2M dollars. Mobilized teams and cross-functional communication by prioritizing through QA, UAT and production to increase org efficiency by 78%. Negotiated and administered $600,000 budget to lead strategic rebranding. Created trading and investor market segmentation strategy and designed 7 automated trading products for a global audience. Guided design team in developing a novel UX and IxD model, while also spearheading ongoing research efforts, resulting in an 85% boost in user adoption on the B2C platform. Launched product v1 across 3 exchanges by leading a new responsive mobile application user experience, resulting in a 67% increase in customer engagement on respective B2B2C exchanges increasing core B2B app/mobile userbase by 3300%.

Senior Manager - UX Design Engineering

Amazon

2016 - 2019

Co-founded companywide Amazon Blockchain Group. Created a novel Wizard of Oz testing platform to lead UXR efforts and enable 100's of rolling research sessions. Reincorporated learnings to guide decision making for Alexa’s first scalable LLMs and interaction designs. Scaled UXE team to 4 design engineers for design system initiatives. Collaborated with executive leadership and BD to develop 0-1 technologies for the DoD and B2B2C integrations.

Director - Product Design + R&D Lead

One Medical Group

2014 - 2015

Formed and managed a 7-person team for R&D, and company's first R&D lab. Led the design, fabrication, and implementation of company’s first IoT system. IoT Telemedicine platform propelled the company to become Forbes' #1 'Most Innovative Healthtech Company' globally, surpassing Apple. Technological advancements catalyst for $65M capital raise.

UX Systems Designer

Razorfish

2012 - 2012

UX design guidelines, created the grid system. Launched UNIQLO.com

Skills

front-end

product-lead

product-manager

ui-ux-designer

english

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