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London Area, United Kingdom

Deel is a global HR market-leading startup with 35K+ customers, $500M+ ARR, and a $12B valuation.▶︎ Design the Deel Immigration product, simplifying global mobility management across 50+ countries for companies like Revolut.▶︎ Innovate internal and client-facing immigration tools to automate routine tasks, maximizing efficiency and customer satisfaction.▶︎ Collaborate to deliver seamless integrations with other Deel products, adding value to clients and ensuring consistency.

Avito (ex-OLX Group) is the world's #1 classified, with 75M+ MAU and $1.2B in revenue in 2023.Additions to My Role:▶︎ Implementing more "horizontal" solutions impacting all of Avito's verticals (75M+ MAU), extending beyond the Real Estate vertical (38M MAU): Demonstrating exceptional presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills to drive cross-functional initiatives.▶︎ Contributing to product and design strategies and vision, playing an active role in backlog prioritization and quarterly planning, fine-tuning processes, and facilitating team activities.▶︎ Serving as a design advocate: Sharing expertise internally through mentoring and externally by contributing articles to the official Avito blog (13K+ subscribers), bolstering Avito's HR brand.Key Achievements:★ Unleashed the full potential of Saved Searches, the core retention feature across all Avito verticals (75M+ MAU). Achieved a remarkable up to 50% increase in saved searches by revamping the CTA, making it accessible and clear. Boosting awareness also fortified the bottom of the funnel, resulting in 5% fewer people deleting saved searches and 5% more opening push notifications.★ Successfully revamped the Real Estate Main Page (11M+ MAU) with remarkable outcomes: optimized navigation for a 1.5% increase in filtered searches, leading to higher search results conversions; implemented efficient CTAs for services, resulting in up to 500% individual CTR boosts and over 300% more combined traffic; introduced innovative personalization, increasing CTR of page content by 50%. As a result, achieved a 5% increase in the number of buyers (users who contact ads) and a 7% increase in ad contacts. "The strongest case study, from my perspective, is how Victor embodied the new Real Estate Main Page, which became a model for all other verticals at Avito." — Alexander Stogov, ex-Head of Design at Avito (see his full review in the Recommendations section)

My Role:▶︎ Owning the design process for Avito Real Estate's 38M MAU: Leading the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and final UI designs, along with detailed specifications. Collaborating closely with UX researchers, UX writers, and developers to ensure the highest quality and ROI.▶︎ Playing a pivotal role in the team's discovery process: Gathering valuable customer insights, applying problem-solving techniques, and identifying data-driven methods to track results, often utilizing A/B testing.▶︎ Embracing T-Shaping: Taking the lead on certain features as a product manager, utilizing internal analytical tools to extract insights, and conducting usability tests to drive user-centered enhancements.Key Achievements:★ Fully designed a cutting-edge Real Estate Instant Market Value (IMV) product, enabling millions of customers to swiftly spot the best deals and gain deeper market insights. Achieved 70% trust rate and notably enhanced views among ads marked with "Market Price" label. The IMV also served as the centerpiece of Avito Real Estate's nationwide marketing campaign, reaching 95 million people.★ Invested over 100 hours in recruiting, managing, and mentoring an intern as part of the Avito Internship Program. This effort culminated in the intern's successful graduation and subsequent placement within the Avito team (see Evgeniya Koroleva's review in the Recommendations section). I further disseminated my mentoring experiences through articles that garnered over 1.4K views (see them in the Publications section).

Practicum by Yandex is a top-ranked EdTech platform in Russia with $84M in revenue in 2022.My Role:▶︎ Mentored two cohorts of the 9-month "Interface Designer" course and a cohort of the full-year "Product Designer" course.▶︎ Conducted webinars, including lectures on various topics, hands-on workshops, and feedback sessions, and maintained active communication with students via Slack.▶︎ Served as a regular guest expert at "Career Track" webinars on the Junior Designer job market.Key Achievements:★ Graduated over 100 aspiring designers, with many of them successfully launching their careers.★ Delivered 82 webinars, accumulating over 150 hours of teaching. On average, 16 attendees participated in those live, and the recorded webinars garnered over 2,700 views.★ Avg. rated 4.5 out of 5 for "How helpful and supportive was the mentoring throughout the course?" (Interface Designer 1)★ Avg. rated 4.8 (Interface Designer 2) and 4.88 (Product Designer) out of 5 for "How helpful and supportive was the communication with the Mentor via Slack?" ★ Avg. rated 4.6 (Interface Designer 2) and 4.74 (Product Designer) out of 5 for "How clear and useful were the Mentor's webinars?"

Awwwards is a renowned web design competition body with 1.8M MAU.My Role:▶︎ Entrusted with judging web projects from all over the world as a member of Young Jury, a movement aiming "to combine the fresh approach and fearlessness of young new talent".Key Achievements:★ Meticulously evaluated over 300 exceptional websites.★ Recognized as a finalist for the Awwwards Main Jury in 2018, attaining a place among the Top-200 global digital design professionals.

Yandex, a "Google of Russia", is the world's #2 search engine, with 90M MAU and $7B in revenue in 2023.Key Achievements:★ Successfully orchestrated the launch of the high-tech Operator’s Office, a novel Yandex product that resonated with over 5 thousand businesses in the inaugural month.★ Spearheaded a transformative project: relocated suggested questions from the chat window to the search results page (the upper funnel stage), resulting in a remarkable 115% increase in daily chats.★ Effectively introduced the Automatic Chat Distribution feature, substantially reducing operators’ response time by an average of 45 seconds. This impactful enhancement equates to saving over 1,000 hours for customers on a monthly basis.★ Significantly contributed to the implementation of Live Chat for a Yandex Market marketplace. The feature achieved remarkable adoption with over 25% of all shops integrating it within the first week. Notably, shops with live chats exhibited a 1.5 times higher order conversion rate compared to those without.★ Innovated a cutting-edge Lead Capture System, empowering businesses to maintain communication with their customers after they leave chat across various Yandex services. This strategic move significantly reduced the churn rate.★ Completely revamped the Live Chat Installation process for businesses, achieving an uplift in the installation's success rate and leading to a substantial drop in support requests.

QIWI is a leading FinTech company in the CIS, with 27M+ customers and $640M in revenue in 2022.Key Achievements:★ Implemented the entire Card Tracking System for QIWI Wallet, enabling customers to monitor the real-time progress of card production and delivery. This innovation led to a rise in the successful receipt and activation of cards.★ Significantly enhanced the Card Management Section for QIWI Wallet by introducing context-based card reissuing and card topping-up suggestions, resulting in a substantial improvement in key metrics.★ Pioneered a game-changing Investment Ideas feature for a QIWI Investor product, positioning it as a remarkable competitive advantage and driving a notable increase in overall app installations.

Red Collar was named "Agency of the Year" in 2017 and 2019 by CSS Design Awards and received high recognition from Webby, Awwwards, Red Dot, European Design Awards, and FWA.

Diploma Program, Software Development, Startup Creation And App Design

Ranked 7 out of 529 applicants and received a scholarship directly from Apple. The Apple Developer Academy is a partnership between.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

Received a full-tuition scholarship. ITMO is ranked 79 in the world by QS World University Rankings 2022 by subject "Computer Science".