Staff Product Designer · Orange County, CA

Complex, data-heavy products made to feel simple.

Math degree, 6 years in data analysis, then a decade of Product Design. I've built for fintech, compliance, ecommerce and analytics tools.

I've led a design team, hired designers, built the processes, stepped in as acting PM. I'm at home across the whole product lifecycle, from the first messy discovery call to helping fine-tune the go-to-market motion.

And yes, I do know how to designfor AI and with AI.

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Selected work

0→1 AI product vision locked

Gorgias · 2026

A unified skills model for AI-first marketing

Design provocations across agentic flows converged into a platform vision — executive buy-in at a critical stage, and the CPO's "biggest AHA moment of the year."

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AI-first interface redesign locked

Gorgias · 2026

Redesigning the AI Journey interface around the agentic skills architecture

Translating the approved vision into the product itself: one agent surface, skills-based navigation, and campaign flows rebuilt to match the new mental model.

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End-to-end · discovery → alpha locked

Gorgias · 2024–25

Ticket Fields: strategic functionality, designed with scale in mind

Interviews, 60+ Hotjar videos quantified with a method I invented, 5 concepts, leadership workshop, then an Alpha program with 10 early adopters observed live.

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Experience

Gorgias2022 — 2026
Staff Product Designer2026
Product Design Manager2024 — 2026
Senior Product Designer, L52023 — 2024
Senior Product Designer, L42022 — 2023
Behavox2020 — 2022
Senior Product Designer
Alchemist Accelerator2018 — 2020
Product Designer
LPP S.A. · OODJI · Nova Team2010 — 2017
Data Analyst · Business Analyst

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About

I'm organized to the point of being slightly boring about it. I'm the person who asks, at the end of the meeting, "Soooo... what are the action points?", because I've sat in too many conversations where everyone nods, leaves and turns out to have understood something different.

I'm genuinely curious about what AI is doing to the design craft. Experimenting with it has made design work more fun and knocked down the barriers that used to limit how much we could try. But deciding what to build is still the hard part, and that comes from experience: the failed experiments, the ones that worked, the books you've read, the years of doing it with your own hands, the taste that you've developed. That judgment is what I bring.

My tech stack
Figmadesign & prototyping
Claudethinking & building
Cursorcode editor
GitHubversion control
Wispr Flowvoice to text
Notiondocs & specs
Skills
Data analysis Design systems Prototyping in code 0→1 product design User research Design leadership & hiring Designing for AI

Born and raised in Russia, now in Southern California by way of San Francisco. I've visited 30 countries so far and I'm not done counting.

things I love
Traveling · speaking Italian · karting · watching Formula 1 · piano jazz · Stairway to Heaven · peated whiskey · cats and dogs · spicy food · the smell of wood · thunderstorms · Edgar Degas
things I don't love right now
Celery · Miles Davis · networking events · pizzas with more than three ingredients