Roman Gorshkov

Product Design Team Leader. 10+ years of experience. E-commerce & CRM, team building, design systems

Antalya, Turkey
Hi 👋🏻 I'm visionary and result-driven Principal Product Designer with 10+ years of experience creating delightful, personalised, and engaging experiences by simplifying interfaces, analysing audience needs, and defining user journey. Predominantly, my focus is complex IT solutions such as CRM, distribution overseeing, e-commerce platforms, etc.

Adept at steering all aspects of product design lifecycle of specific features, from ideation, prototyping, and user testing to appealing final designs, whilst collaborating with developers, product managers, stakeholders, and other designers.

Also, there is big expertise in design systems development and integration them in working flow.

Work Experience

Bitrix24

Chief of UX/UI Department (remote)

Promoted to Chief of UX/UI Department due to outstanding performance and timely accomplishment of tasks. Manage team of six product designers. Chaired 1 on 1 meetings with employees, involving feedback to review tasks, guide members, ask coaching questions, and highlight key aspects in UI. Engaged with software engineers regarding project details: explaining UI flows, prototype details or technical tasks. Collaborated with product managers and/or UX writers to select employees to deal with specific tasks.

→ Built design system from scratch, involving ~11 design subsystems in Figma, 335 simple components, 264 complex components with integrated animation along with documentation and tokens with developers.
→ Introduced and organised team coaching sessions for enhancing mental process and soft skills, that minimised ~20% of total time cost per task and expedited process of finding best-fit solutions.
→ Integrated atomic design approach and special project layout, that facilitated rapid involvement of new members in workgroup and implementation of improvements.
→ Optimised speed of designing 1st variant (average: 12 w/hours vs. 16 w/hours) and speed between next variants (average: 8 hours vs. 12 hours per rearranging).
→ Contributed directly to company’s crucial projects
August 2018 - Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Neolant

Deputy Chief of Analysts and Design Department

Introduced task management system and trained colleagues on effective use of system for efficient workflow. Served as project and product manager, involving smooth communications with QA and software engineers.

Some of my key contributions are as follows:
→ Launched three design projects: UI of Neolant Solution for Managing Energy Stations & Building Process; UI of VR Quests Platform for Moscow Center of Education Quality (MCKO.ru); FutureFeature Mobile App UI provides ability to work with new ideas and Intellectual Property.
→ Recruited highly-skilled designer and 2 analysts to assemble team fit for seamless execution of design projects.
→ Expedited workflow by ~50% and cut average time on UI flow presentation from 24 hours to 12 hours via introduction of Trello and a working methodology.
January 2017 - July 2018 Kaliningrad, Russian Federation

Tmean Ltd.

Founder & CEO

Established, grew, and managed website development company that offered complex adaptive/responsive web solutions, UI, and brand design to wide range of clients. Hired, trained, and guided designers and developers. Planned and oversaw all aspects of project and product management, involving budgeting, scoping, requirement analysis, and client management. Contributed to designing and delivering compelling and engaging presentations to clients.

Selected contributions:
→ Led and completed approx. 300 projects of adaptive and mobile solutions (avg. check: ~$2400/project) and five longitude outsource agreements (avg. check for service: $4687/month).
→ Reduced number of steps until final variant of design from average five to two designs, whilst ensuring accordance with client’s expectations and/or requirements.
→ Provided excellent solutions to top-tier clients from various domains.
February 2011 - January 2017 Russian Federation

Education

Moscow State University Of Economics, Statistics And Informatics (MESI) Logo Moscow State University Of Economics, Statistics And Informatics (MESI)

Master's degree

Economics, Banking
Graduated with Honors
September 2006 - July 2011 Moscow, Russian Federation

Languages

English (Advanced),
Russian (Native),

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro , Art Direction, Brand Design, Branding, Branding & Identity, Business Development, CEO, Creative Direction, CRM, Data Analysis, Design System, Devinci Resolve, E-commerce, Figma, Graphic Design, Hiring, HTML, HTML5, Information Architecture, IT Recruitment, JavaScript, JSON, Leadership, Logo Design, Management, Marketing, Mobile Applications, Presentation Development, Principle For Mac, Product Design, Product Management, Project Management, Prototyping, Rapid Prototyping, Sketch App, Team Building, Team Leadershp, Usability, Usability Testing, User Experience, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, User Interface Prototypin, Ux, Web Design, Web Development, Wireframing,