Valentin Spitsyn Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Fi

Remote

SORAMITSU is an award-winning global technology company delivering blockchain-based solutions for crypto enthusiasts, enterprises, universities, and governments.My primary responsibilities as Head of Product Design include overseeing the company’s web and mobile product lineup, along with a multi-brand crypto wallet that is now a key component of the company's overall strategy.In my position, I assembled and now lead a talented team of highly skilled senior designers. This diverse group brings a wide range of expertise and perspectives, which is crucial in creating a cohesive and user-centric design.Along with working on the company's main product lineup, one of our significant achievements has been developing a multi-brand framework for the crypto wallet. This innovative solution provides a white-label option that allows other brands to leverage our technology while maintaining their unique identities.To achieve this, with the help of my team, I have established a Modular Design Approach and Multi-Brand Design System. This allows us to create a highly adaptable and customizable framework for mobile wallets that is not only intuitive and user-friendly but also scalable and easy to update. This adaptability supports the rapid evolution of products in response to user feedback and emerging market trends.Working on such a comprehensive task has enabled me not only to set up the design system itself but also to establish efficient workflows, tools, and processes that unify our team under one efficient approach to design. This systematic approach ensures consistency, improves collaboration, and enhances productivity across all stages of our projects.Overall, my experience at SORAMITSU is a journey of growth and innovation in shaping the future of digital financial tools. Leading a dedicated team, applying advanced design principles, and contributing to an innovative and rapidly evolving industry continues to be both professionally fulfilling and exciting.

Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

Tango is a social live-streaming platform to discover talented creators and make new friends! On Tango, Broadcasters get the tools they need to manage and grow their live-streaming business.Before I joined the company, Tango had about 50 employees and was ranked 5th among competitors in the global market. After I left, there were about 150 employees with R&D offices in various countries, and Tango was ranked as the 2nd largest mobile streaming app.Being a product-first company, product design has played a huge role in Tango's success. The design patterns that I established are still used throughout the app today and are continuously being improved upon.What I accomplished in one year of high-paced work on the product:1. In the first 2 months, I helped to launch a renewed WEB (mobile + desktop) platform. As a result of the launch, the company's revenue instantly increased by 40%;2. During the course of one year I have significantly updated the app's design language and set the bar for future development;3. Reformed processes and HALVED the time required to develop design layouts for 3 platforms (by introducing a Unified Design Paradigm);4. Assembled and onboarded a strong design team;5. Together with the team, I designed and supported the development of strategic features that subsequently brought the company to second place in the global market;6. Having streamlined processes, I successfully delegated the administrative management of the design team in the feature development pipeline to a promising colleague and took a strategic position as a design visionary, process optimizer, and design infrastructure specialist with a goal to implement an atomic design system, improve infrastructure, eliminate legacy, and make the feature conveyor work more efficiently.Tango then decided to relocate everyone to Cyprus, so I left for a remote opportunity, since it did not match with my logistics.

Amaiz (https://amaiz.com) is a banking application designed to simplify the daily banking activities of entrepreneurs and free them from time-consuming administrative and paper work by combining fast and convenient banking with a smart back office and accounting tools.However, I have entered Amaiz once it was in Retail Banking, and before it made its pivot towards Business Banking.My main objectives were:1. Develop a UX strategy;2. Create a low-fidelity prototype for early testing;3. Implement proven hypotheses in high-fidelity mock-ups;4. Conduct author control prior to product implementation;5. Ship product to market together with the marketing department.How did I achieve the objectives:* formed UX strategy based on market research, customer needs, goals and capabilities of the company;* set up methods to effectively hand off design work for dev;* coordinated a design team while also being a player;* hired needed employees to strengthen the team;* developed an Atomic Design System together with dev teams.As the Head of Design, my areas of ​​responsibility also were:Creative Leadership:* Design vision establishment and standards of quality;* Mentorship and best practice design principles establishment;* Contribution to brand definition and user experience principles;* Monitoring the right application of established design principles.Management:* Setting the tone of communication within the team;* Definition of growth areas for employees;* Motivation and support for a productive atmosphere;* Constant feedback.Operational management:* Design project portfolio administration through JIRA;* Resource management.Strategic objectives:* Recruiting great talent;* Demonstration of the values ​​of design culture in the company;* Creation of methodological tools and design practices, and control of their application;* Evolution of design vision;* Representation of the design department in the committee of directors.

Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

DEVIM (https://devim.com) is an IT development company that specializes on automating business processes and jobs, saving companies from routine tasks, thereby increasing their efficiency.In DEVIM I have been working on 3 key projects - the retail manager's CRM, the online lenders dashboard and underwriter's CRM. All for a Payday Loan company: https://dozarplati.com/ .My duties included:* business analysis and user research;* UX (research, user stories, user flow, documentation);* design of high-definition clickable prototypes (Sketch, Zepplin, InVision);* testing hypothesis and collecting feedback;* author control of design implementation in development;* interviewing new candidates for the design team;* setting of UX-processes and regulations in the company;Results:1. Case "Lenders Dashboard" (Desktop + Mobile):http://spitsyn.tilda.ws/dzp22. Case "Retail Manager's CRM":http://spitsyn.tilda.ws/crm3. Scoring interface for Underwriters: can't give a public link, can show only at the interview if interested.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

GET Information Technology GmbH is an international consulting and software engineering company with more than 18 years of experience in organizational development and software technology services. GET IT creates solutions for companies that have a challenge managing a huge portfolio of large projects. They serve clients like Knauf, Storck, Volkswagen, Bayer, Siemens, Mercedes, and some other industrial giants.My main responsibility was to improve the Desktop & Mobile RADAR app (https://projects-radar.com/), as well as work with its marketing materials.Results:1. UI design of the RADAR mobile application for Android: https://marvelapp.com/3gia40g (Marvell prototype);2. New website for RADARImpact:In just 3 months of my work with GET IT, my clickable RADAR prototype helped the company sign a contract with a large industrial manufacturer.This way I have once again proven myself that good design sells.

Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

SERENITY is one of the top Marketing Agencies in Saint-Petersburg with an in-house production team.While bringing my UX and Web Design skills to the table I had a chance to learn the fundamentals of marketing strategy and project management from the industry pros.This was a big step forward for me in my development, since my areas of responsibility became:* Participation in the sales process as a design consultant;* Incoming lead quoting, pricing, and proposal crafting;* Defining project team participants, setting tasks for internal members and external contractors;* UX, prototyping, and design;* Writing specifications for the development and control of design implementation;* Project delivery.One of the most challenging, creative, and fun environments I had to work in.Thank you guys! ❤️

Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia

CubeLine is an agency with a kick for performance marketing.Here, thanks to a dedicated CEO, in addition to my Web Design skills I have learned strong fundamentals in UX Research and Interaction Design in AxureRP.My responsibilities were:* Gathering requirements from a client; * Designing the information structure;* Creating interactive prototypes in AxureRP;* Designing mockups;* Writing design specs for development.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

One of the hardest parts of my career.Freelancing was a hard struggle for me and I'm open to admitting it. Having clients here and there certainly made me a better designer, but administrating a business, fairly pricing, and marketing myself in an international arena was a challenge that I didn't cope with well at that time.Results: Tax debt, broken hopes, lots of experience, and a hell of a lot of great connections.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Joining forces with a recently graduated friend we started a small marketing company. We were building websites and doing SEO for fools, friends, and family.After several years of building up a reputation from the ground up, we landed our biggest and most successful project, which was a website for a real estate company named CostaReal.Later we had to part ways looking for better opportunities.But it was really a great ride and a good start to my professional career as a designer.