mikhailkutsov

Product Designer

I craft digital products with a focus on UX, systems thinking, and visual clarity. With over a decade of experience across fintech, enterprise, and consumer platforms, I lead teams, build design systems, and turn complex challenges into clear, scalable solutions.

https://mikhailkutsov.framer.website/
pass: design2025


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $120,000

Hourly rate: $75

Nationality: 🇪🇪 Estonia

Residency: 🇪🇪 Estonia


Experience

Product Designer
Compilot
2024 - 2024
Worked on KYB onboarding, transaction monitoring, company profiles, and dashboards; designed a custom form builder for onboarding flows; proposed and prototyped AI-powered compliance tools.
Designer
XeniaAI
2024 - 2025
Co-founder of AI interviewer.
Design Lead
Bondora
2022 - 2025
Responsible for investor and loan products, created and adopted a new design system across all platforms, redesigned self-service dashboards and premium add-ons, worked on mobile banking app concept, led a team of 3 designers, collaborated closely with PMs, devs, and marketing.
Product Designer / Team Lead
Paxful
2021 - 2022
Responsible for the Wallet product: multi-currency account (from 3 to 50+ assets), send/receive, exchange, on/off-ramp flows, and offline crypto payments solution for small merchants in El Salvador.
Senior Designer
Deutsche Bank
2017 - 2021
Worked in the St. Petersburg Technology Center on FX trading platforms: redesigned multiple desktop applications (blotters, dashboards, analytics, execution, experimental tools), co-created the desktop design system, owned the design system for mobile FX apps, and designed 11 mobile applications plus a container framework in collaboration with the Autobahn team (awarded Profit & Loss e-FX Excellence).
Senior Designer
Netcracker
2016 - 2017
Worked on Salesforce automation and Virtual Networks products: gathered requirements with PMs and BAs, designed key flows and screens for web and mobile, created prototypes and UI patterns, and supported development.
Senior Designer
Devexperts
2012 - 2016
Redesigned key parts of the thinkorswim desktop app, improved UX consistency, created a design system and UI patterns, built prototypes, and collaborated with analysts, client teams, and developers.
Senior Designer / Team Lead
Quantron Systems
2009 - 2012
Worked on web and gaming applications, designed user interfaces and flows, created visual assets, and supported development from concept to release.

Skills

ai
consulting
crypto
design
finance
fintech
full-time
kyb
kyc
lead-designer
mobile
mobile-designer
product-designer
ui-ux-designer
ux-researcher
web-designer
english
russian