Armenia

Product Design

UX Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Growth Design

Danil Savchenko

Head of Design Group

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

Negotiation

Design systems

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

HTML

Jira

Miro

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Empathy

Time management

Presentation skills

Leadership

Brand strategy

Information architecture

Budget management

User research

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

I lead design for AI agent platforms at Sberbank, focusing on creating intelligent, user-centered systems that automate tasks and enhance decision-making.

•	Scaled the product design team from 5 to 20 designers to support the expansion of the Tinkoff super-app, establishing hiring, onboarding, and career growth frameworks.
•	Led the strategic redesign of the "City" lifestyle services section, contributing to a 12x increase in GMV (June 2023 - June 2025) and transforming it into a key engagement driver.
•	Drove the E-commerce marketplace integration into the core banking app, defining a user journey that doubled user retention for the feature.
•	Co-led the implementation of a new product workflow focused on feature effectiveness and development cost, which cut Time-to-Market (TTM) by over 30%.


•	Directed design strategy across 20+ product teams, standardizing design processes to improve collaboration and delivery speed for account and service platforms.
•	Initiated and led the development of a company-wide design system, creating a unified component library that accelerated product development and ensured brand consistency.
•	Restructured design team workflows, implementing new planning, feedback, and peer review processes to improve design quality and team morale during a period of organizational change.
•	Led the UX research and product vision for the Game Investment Platform, delivering 
insights that shaped the MVP roadmap and core value proposition.
•	Created and documented a standardized UX research framework, making research accessible to designers and product managers across the company and increasing its adoption.

•	Led product design for Russia's first online loan marketplace from concept to launch, guiding the team through 14 rapid iterations of the core user flow.
•	Designed a profiling-based loan selection feature that increased application conversion and revenue per customer by improving loan-to-customer matching accuracy.
•	Initiated and built the company's first design system, creating a unified UI kit that accelerated feature development and eliminated UI inconsistencies across the product.
•	Established a mentorship program for junior and mid-level designers, fostering skill development within the team.


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