ilyav
Founding Designer | Senior Ic Product Designer | Head Of Product Design
- 15+ years in product design, from founding designer at a startup to heading a 15+ designers at a 400M+ user platform.
- Built and scaled products and design systems from scratch, cutting front-end development costs by up to 30%.
- Expert in high-complexity domains including B2B FinTech, Crypto Trading, and large-scale B2C social platforms.
I'm Ilya, a business-focused product designer and leader with 15+ years of experience working across diverse domains and products of varying scales, stages, and types, from casual entertainment B2C apps to the sophisticated B2B fintech crypto products and AI services.
Check my website: ilyavaravin.com
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $114,000
Hourly rate: $75
Residency: 🇮🇹 Italy
Experience
Product Design Lead
PUNCH 2023 - 2023
PUNCH is a startup focused on music social network, where artists were creating and publishing short music clips for semi-pro artists. The role scope was to develop UX design strategy, consult the team in UX and UI aspects, bring best UX practices, solve the most complex UX cases, and build intuitive design solutions.
Founding Designer
Whitelist Capital 2023 - 2025
Founded and led the product design of a crypto fintech platform and trading terminal for scalper crypto trading in the web3 domain. The product is extremely complex and presents the most challenging UX tasks I have ever faced. Scalping is a specific trading strategy involving very short timeframes and huge numbers, where milliseconds literally matter.
Head of Product Design
Epharmacy 2022 - 2023
Headed up Design Team of 10+ UX designers and product design direction in a large pharmacy e-com. The products were varied and covered all business needs, including the web and mobile client sides, the back office, the administration portal, the partner service, and the logistics portal.
Head of Design
Tango Live 2020 - 2022
Tango Live is one of the leading live streaming platforms with over 400 million users. Starting with a team of only 3 designers, I built a top design team of 15+ high skilled designers in 4 countries. In addition to leadership, I got my hands on the most complex UX/UI features, design system, and branding, which led to product and business metrics growth.
Senior IC Product Designer
Scantek 2019 - 2020
Scantek is an Australian real-time ID verification B2B service. I was responsible for UX/UI design for mobile app, client and broker sides, web desktop admin dashboards and analytics portal. In a row with product design, I worked on most of the other designs: flows, diagrams, schemes, graphic design, etc.
Head of Design
Digital Ecosystems 2013 - 2020
Started as a team leader of 5 designers in 2013, I become the head of a department of 50+ designers. The company had a full cycle of apps production and publishing in most of the categories: business, tools, entertainment, games, etc.
Lead Designer
Litvice 2012 - 2013
Leaded design in RPG mobile and web game project, both UX/UI and art design. The main challenge was an unpredictable user behaviour due to device specifics has taught me to believe in data only.
UX/UI Designer
Elance 2011 - 2012
UX/UI and Web Design at Elance platform. I've provided design services in a wide range of disciplines: Web and UX/UI design, branding and identity, graphic design, presentations, infographics, etc.
Web Designer
Academ Media 2008 - 2011
Worked at a web agency as a multidisciplinary designer: web design, graphic design, games, branding and animations.
Skills
design
design-manager
head-of-design
lead-designer
mobile-designer
product-designer
ui-ux-designer
web-designer
english
russian