Hey, I'm Slava

Hey, I'm Slava

design leader

design leader

> 8 years in design:

Big tech and startups. B2B and B2C.
Led teams of up to 30 designers

I build and grow design teams, products and companies. I set up processes that make designers stronger and tie design to business results.
I also design and build AI tools myself.

> 8 years in design:

Big tech and startups. B2B and B2C.
Led teams of up to 30 designers

I build and grow design teams, products and companies. I set up processes that make designers stronger and tie design to business results.
I also design and build AI tools myself.

Core skills:

Team Leadership
& Scaling

  • Building and scaling design teams of up to 30 people

  • Matching, hiring and onboarding designers

  • Mentorship, 1:1s and career growth

  • Resource, budget and capacity planning

  • Design culture, rituals and processes

Team Leadership
& Scaling

  • Building and scaling design teams of up to 30 people

  • Matching, hiring and onboarding designers

  • Mentorship, 1:1s and career growth

  • Resource, budget and capacity planning

  • Design culture, rituals and processes

Product Strategy
& Business Impact

  • Close partnership with Product and Engineering

  • Tying design to metrics and business goals

  • Design systems and quality at scale

  • Presenting and defending design decisions at the C-level

Product Strategy
& Business Impact

  • Close partnership with Product and Engineering

  • Tying design to metrics and business goals

  • Design systems and quality at scale

  • Presenting and defending design decisions at the C-level

AI Experiments
& Building

  • Designing AI-powered products and features

  • Building internal AI tools end-to-end

  • Prototyping and shipping with Claude and GitHub

AI Experiments
& Building

  • Designing AI-powered products and features

  • Building internal AI tools end-to-end

  • Prototyping and shipping with Claude and GitHub

Experience

Pragmatica

Outstaff Design Lead

Matching and growing
designers of all profiles
for big tech and startups

Dec 2025 — still working

Looch

Product Design Lead

Product studio — #1 UX
and research in Russia

Nov 2023 — Oct 2025

Ring Central

Senior Product Designer

#1 global UCaaS
and CCaaS solution

Dec 2021 — July 2023

and other from Feb 2018

Cases

2 -> 5

2 -> 5

Team Restructuring:
Growing from 2 to 5 Designers

Restructured the design team in Yandex Market’s logistics project

The process that makes designers stronger

How I stopped designers from being just a pair of hands

Mindbox

Mindbox

From one-week planning to product thinking

Transforming design processes at Mindbox

AI & side projects

AUF Match

Internal AI tool at Pragmatica: screens 2,000+ designer portfolios and shortlists 30–60 per role

Aleria

Side project · Head of Design for several products built on proprietary AI

Phygital+

Side project · Product designer, first-session experience for a generative AI workspace, 2024

Autodraw

AI shape recognition for the RingCentral whiteboard · ~$700K projected revenue