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Andrey D

Product designer & leader

About Me

Senior product designer and leader with 20 years of experience driving and scaling complex digital products across FinTech, SaaS, Web3, and Pharma. Proven track record of owning product strategy, building design systems, and delivering measurable business impact, ranging from €900M in tokenized assets to 1.5× lead generation growth and 60% cost reduction. Experienced in cross-functional leadership, regulated environments, and globally distributed teams.

Jurisdiction

Germany | United Arab Emirates | United States | Austria | Switzerland

Notable Employer

  • Head of Design at Riotloc, Principal Product Designer at OneForce and Stealth SaaS | EU and US at Riotloc

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience10-15 years
Current StatusActive
Head of Design at Riotloc, Principal Product Designer at OneForce and Stealth SaaS | EU and USNotable
2023 - Present

Led end-to-end design strategy for Riotloc, an AAA-level game localization studio (clients include award-winning Baldur’s Gate 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance II). Built scalable design systems and communication frameworks, increasing lead generation by 1.5×, conversion rate by 39%, and customer return rate by 51%. Designed and launched a new studio website, attracting 1,500–2,000 monthly unique visitors and supporting inbound sales. Reduced asset production time from days to minutes by introducing AI-assisted design workflows and reusable templates. Created design language and MVP for a referral program SaaS (OneForce, AI MarTech). Led user research and delivered product MVP for Web3 portfolio management SaaS startup (stealth).

Design Manager
2021 - 2023

B2B company producing and providing rare chemical screening compounds for industrial clients like BASF, Abbott. Designed and implemented a PoC for an end-to-end order & production platform, reducing communication and deal-management costs by 60%. Digitalized internal workflows, cutting order processing time from days to minutes and reducing team workload by 27%. Introduced zero-/low-code tools and modern design practices, saving 80% of the digital production budget. Designed internal software to digitize a 300,000-item physical chemical compound library.

Head of Design
2018 - 2022

VC-backed ($150M) FinTech startup, regulated institutional-focused Web3 ecosystem for digitizing, trading, settlement and ownership of RWA, built on top of Hyperledger Fabric SDK. Multi-regional project presence (Switzerland, USA). Led product design for a data-heavy, regulated institutional Web3 platform, contributing to €900M in tokenized assets in 2022. Built and scaled the design function; hired and managed 4 designers working across 3 core products. Designed a compliant tokenization platform for the US market, collaborating with legal, compliance, and engineering teams. Established design governance and brand consistency across US & EU jurisdictions. Created product architecture for Symbridge DeFi exchange, the first ever hybrid digital asset exchange with a Bloomberg-inspired OTC desk and high-frequency trading support via FIX API.

Skills

Core skills0
Languages4

Languages

English
English (British)
German
Russian