Hey! I'm Yasha,Product Designer.

10+ years on 0→1 launches and platform-scale rebuilds across FinTech, B2B, and Consumer products. Architect by training. AI tools in daily practice.

Works

Preply

Sr. Product Designer

2025 — 2026
Preply product interface
Preply logo

Guesty

Sr. Product Designer

2024 — 2025
Guesty product interface
Guesty logo

SimilarWeb

Sr. Product Designer

2021 — 2024
SimilarWeb platform interface
SimilarWeb logo

Sber

Lead Designer

2019 — 2021
Sber app screens
Sber logo

About

I work the problem, not the industry. 10+ years of design and leadership across FinTech, B2B, and Consumer apps — Sber's PFM tribe (50M+ users), SimilarWeb's analytics platform, Preply's tutor-side growth experiments. From inventing and shipping new products to optimizing key metrics at scale through A/B testing and thorough user research. Hiring and mentoring design peers along the way. Prefer lean structures where fewer gates between idea and execution, transparency in decision making, and room for mistakes shape not only the team but the product outcomes themselves.

Every product lives in a context — a user doing a job, with constraints they didn't ask for. The context isn't always given; sometimes it needs to be understood deeply enough to answer one obvious question — is this the right problem to solve? I work it as a system: what's the taxonomy, what's missing, where the product can land closer to the user's context. I keep trade-offs visible, attach design decisions to business outcomes, and pressure-test direction with peers. AI tools in daily practice for rapid prototyping and concept exploration.

I love creating new contexts that shift the rules — the way things work can always (almost) be improved. Driven to build products users love and businesses profit from, following the existential urge to make the world better.

Work history

Preply ✱ Sr. Product DesignerC2C learning marketplace, 32K+ tutors / Trial agenda A/B and iOS widget V2 / Growth team, tutor-side
2025 – 2026
Guesty ✱ Sr. Product DesignerB2B vacation rental SaaS, 250K+ properties / Notifications rebuild & Mid-stay Relocation 0→1 / Business & Financials, Cross-platform
2024 – 2025
SimilarWeb ✱ Sr. Product DesignerB2B analytics SaaS, 4K+ enterprise customers / Platform Navigation redesign & Market Research + Demand Analysis 0→1 / Core Platform Products
2021 – 2024
Sber ✱ Lead Product DesignerFinTech consumer apps, 50M+ users / Total Funds product group rebuild / Core banking, PFM tribe, led 3-designer team
2019 – 2021
Bankex ✱ Sr. Product DesignerFinTech crypto trading & custodian, $70M+ raised / Custodian product 0→1 in 3.5 months / Crypto startup
2018 – 2019
COMS ✱ Sr. Product DesignerB2B enterprise monitoring SaaS, top-5 RU enterprise customers / Full platform redesign / Rostelecom startup team
2018
Svyaznoy ✱ UX/UI DesignerInternal corporate platform, 20K+ employees / Platform redesign + extension / In-house team
2017
Armex ✱ UX/UI & Brand DesignerBanking client work, 10+ RU regional banks / Branding and digital design / Studio role
2016 – 2017

Contact

Always open to interesting projects and challenges.
Let's build something together.

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