Andrei Tarasevich

Andrei Tarasevich

$50/hr
Product, UX, UI Design, Design Management
Reply rate:
100.0%
Availability:
Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Location:
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Experience:
12 years
Andrei Tarasevich Head of Design & Product Languages Contacts Belarusian, Russian – native speaker English – upper intermediate​ Polish – elementary email:-portfolio/website: uxmanager.pro, developmate.pro LinkedIn: /andreitarasevich - Location: Warsaw, Poland Summary As a strategic product & design leader and consultant, I bring 25+ years of experience in visual, industrial, UI/UX design, with over a decade in UI/UX leadership and product development. My expertise spans building, managing, and optimizing product design teams, driving business impact through user-centered, scalable solutions, and advising organizations on digital transformation and design excellence. I specialize in: ●​ Consulting & Advisory – Helping companies streamline Product & UX strategy, optimize processes, and enhance design team performance for measurable business outcomes. ●​ Product & Design Leadership & Execution – Leading multicultural product design teams and integrating AI-powered tools to boost efficiency, quality, and innovation. ●​ Data-Driven Culture – Implementing data-informed practices that align product vision with business strategy and user needs. ●​ Process & Strategy Optimization – Driving cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder alignment, and scalable design systems to improve operational efficiency. ●​ AI-Powered Product Innovation – Exploring and applying AI-driven design methodologies to enhance decision-making, automation, and productivity. How I Add Value ●​ Scaling Teams & Operations – Built and managed 25+ product teams, improving team agility, creativity, and execution quality. ●​ Strategic Business Impact – Partnering with executives, product teams, and engineering to ensure design delivers tangible business results. ●​ AI & Emerging Tech Expertise – Leveraging AI-supported workflows to accelerate design, improve UX research, and increase efficiency. ●​ Process Optimization & Collaboration – Unifying business, product, and engineering teams for seamless execution and improved design outcomes. Domains: Recruitment & People management, Automotive, Billing, Payments, Product Lifecycle Management systems, Customer Relationship Management & Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Healthcare, Content management, Musical instruments Platforms & Product types: AI-powered apps & systems, Web3, Web, Mobile apps, SaaS, Ecosystems, Product lines, Design Systems management. Awards: 2016 Gold Dealer Design Award - I worked on UX/UI design of the software as a part of the Coherent Solutions team on the Daikin Applied project. Work Experience May 2021 - Present Developmate Head of Product & Design​ ​ Developmate is a multiproduct company that has grown from my initiative based on the need of the IT market to get more people with a product mindset to meet real business goals and solve problems.​ Released products:​ B2B - https://profolio.dev/, https://prohiring.dev/ B2C and games - https://runar.app/runargpt, https://runar.app/runarapp, https://developmate.pro/beargame, https://developmate.pro/valhallapath ​ Led Product managers and Design across multiple SaaS products, including Profolio, Prohiring, Propeople, and Runar, driving innovation in talent acquisition, portfolio management, and digital hiring automation. ●​ Developed product concepts from scratch, conducting user research, prototyping, and testing to validate market needs. ●​ Designed wireframes, prototypes, and interaction flows, improving usability and workflow efficiency. ●​ Built and managed scalable design systems, ensuring consistency across digital platforms. ●​ Launched mobile applications and gaming projects, including Runar Match, Battleground, Bear Game, and Valhalla Path, handling product strategy, execution, and design leadership. ●​ Designed and implemented AI-powered automation tools to optimize product workflows and user experiences. Established and managed a UX bootcamp, training over 1000+ professionals in hands-on product management, design, UX research, and business strategy.​ Jun 2021 - Oct 2022 Remedy Product Studio Director of Product & Design, Change Manager​ ​ Initiated and executed improvement of quality/quantity changes in the team, Product Management & Design Team approach and growth, people management, product approach and people involvement.​ I evolved to pre-sale activities as a product design expert to launch and build multiple new partners' projects and product design strategies for them. ●​ +213% revenue for the design increased in 6 months ●​ +36% Design Team billability increased in 3 months ●​ 2 New customers came based on positive design feedback​ and recommendations from happy clients ●​ 0 to 3 UX maturity level improved ●​ Improved design sales through the management of the company portfolio creation Driven following practices in the company: ●​ Career & people management, Measurable Assessments ●​ Unified working approach, Knowledge management ●​ Initiated and directed the improvement of company-scale processes Oct 2018 - Oct 2021 DGTLIZATION Co-founder, Product teams coach, Design Director Consultant​ ​ DGTLIZATION – is an IT consultancy agency, IT school and career club in one. As a co-founder, my main impact directions were the consulting and mentorship activities. ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ 50+ people mentored 3 startup teams launched 6 companies consulted with design methodology building 10+ projects consulted with UX solutions 5 projects mentored 2 design teams for companies created ●​ Ideated and implemented design knowledge base ●​ Ideated design skills and career management system Sep 2020 - Feb 2021 MedRecord Director of Product Design, Consultant,​ Contractor Medrecord is an edge-cutting multiproduct startup from the Netherlands with a product line of mobile apps and centralized API.​ I worked with MedRecord as a consultant to relieve their process and product design approach pain points. ●​ Improved velocity of feature design delivery time from unknown up to 2 weeks max. ●​ 15-20% Improved development velocity through process formalization ●​ Improved onboarding time through design deliverables with an obvious logical structure to avoid reading a lot of documentation. ●​ Standardized design deliverables form & process flow for better performance. ●​ Implemented Design Team tasks/workload/prioritization management framework ●​ Founded projects documentation repository for the entire product line Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 IDT UI/UX Design Director IDT is an US company with US$1.34b in revenue in 2020.​ The expected values from my role in IDT were the Design Teams driving, people management, product approach and involvement improvement. IDT has 4 product lines. The main challenge for me was the creation of a consistent approach to product design, and the delivery of qualitative solutions interacting with distributed and multicultural stakeholders and leadership team. ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ Formalized Design Team workflow and working standard Ideated and implemented support practice inside design team Standardized regular performance and deliverables quality Created Design Knowledge base Initiated and implemented knowledge-sharing practices between designers and the entire company Consulted 3 distributed teams with workflows improvement 4 projects supported with UX solutions and methodology Initiated and developed Design System practice on 11 projects for 3 product lines Project onboarding time for designers minimized to 4-8 hours from 2-8 days +30-50% improved designers' technical performance 30-40% minimized conversation time about design implementation with development teams UI updates speed up based on the usage of reusable components base 3 Design Systems merged for multiple projects in the product line: Improved performance of UI development for distributed Scrum teams Oct 2017 - Jun 2019 Aras Corp Head of UX/Product Design Aras Corp is a company with $98.2M in revenue in 2019, Aras Innovator is a product that is in the usage of most manufacturing companies from the F500 list.​ The expected values from my role in Aras were the Design Team building and driving, people management, product approach and team efficiency improvement. The main challenge for me was to change processes in the company with a long-time tradition. To achieve my goals, I had grown my informal leadership in the company and worked in a flat structure effectively. ●​ Established UX/Product design dept ●​ Created working standard for UX/Product design dept ●​ Implemented Design System culture and practice: ○​ Improved design solutions quality and consistency ○​ 30-40% minimized time of the conversation between the designer and the development team ○​ 25% minimized time of implemented design testing ○​ 30% minimized time of validation of new solutions ●​ Simplified management process of the design versions for implementation ●​ Created a Career & Skills Management system for designers ●​ Improved process workflows between designers and other team members ○​ +100% communication effectiveness growth ○​ Built efficient interaction processes flow between functional groups Oct 2015 - Dec 2017 Exadel Senior UI/UX Designer, Creative Community Lead Exadel is a service software development company with $2.69M in revenue in 2017. I worked as UX/UI Designer on a couple of projects for: ●​ Amazon Studios ●​ Global Healthcare Exchange ●​ Parker Hannifin ●​ Eaton Vance ●​ Nielsen And a lot of others Jan 2009 - Oct 2015 UX Designer ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ Soft Swiss Casino Software, Bitcoin Gambling Solutions AGM Soft Coherent Solutions Zigzag Plus Skillset Methodologies & Frameworks ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ Lean Scrum Kanban Design Thinking User-Centered Design Design Sprint Double Diamond Data-driven approach Career and skills management framework PAF product framework UX maturity levels Personal Skills ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ Leadership People management Facilitation Presentation Mentorship Interviewing Active listening Coaching Managerial Skills ●​ Scalable processes building & implementing ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ Company scaling Teams scaling Design team building & launching Product team building & launching Career management, career and professional coaching for teams and company Internal training center implementation for companies Teams budgeting Teams composing Product strategy Prioritization Technical Skills ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ ●​ Product & design strategy Roadmap Design systems launching and management Mindmapping Wireframing & prototyping User scenarios, user flow creation UX and usability audit Value propositions Solution validation Data-driven approach Accessibility UX writing Usability test & audit User research technique Prompt engineering, GenAI Concepts creation Tools Adobe CC, Miro, Figma, XD, Trello, Jira, Confluence, AI tools: Midjourney, ChatGPT, Copy.ai etc. Education 2010 – 2012​ Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics​ ​ ​ Web-Design 1999 – 2006​ Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University​ ​ ​ Economics & Management
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