Danila Filatov
Senior / Lead Product Designer | Ex Design Lead 3Commas.io, Time Out | Wallets · Exchanges · Fintech
Open to Senior / Lead design roles
Product Manager / UX Product Owner with a business-oriented, data-driven approach and a strong research and design education. Problem solving by design thinking and leadership skills. Experience in designer and manager positions across web3, crypto, fintech, medtech and edtech products since 2017. Most experience is in finance, fintech, cryptocurrencies and web3. Before that: four ERP systems, two edtech systems, four medtech projects, UI/UX for an AI-powered assistant and a 3D room editor, more than six iOS and Android apps following the Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design, and the launch of an e-commerce start-up.
Selected results
- 3–5 → 150+ design projects a month · UGOL Smart Renovation
- 1× → 5.5× funnel conversion, with the new price · UGOL Smart Renovation
- 0 → 20,000+ users, #76 Lifestyle · Mysh.app
- 10 min → 2 min per diagnostic card · Vehicle inspection ERP
- 13 → 2 card reissues a month · Vehicle inspection ERP
- 100% → −80% paperwork for medical reps · Pharmplace ERP
- $400 → 10,000+ orders bootstrapped business · Ultimate Workshop and ultm.me
Experience
- Feb 2023 – presentProduct Manager (UX Product Owner), FinTech (Crypto, Blockchain), name under NDA · Remote
- Implemented revenue functionality in a wallet that took the product to break-even.
- Ran revenue-increasing discovery and delivery for the holding's centralised crypto exchange.
- Technical launch, art direction, distributed rendering, blockchain deployment and website design for several NFT projects.
- Oct 2022 – Feb 2023Lead Product Designer, FinTech (Crypto, Blockchain), name under NDA · Tbilisi, Georgia · Hybrid
- Product research and a full design cycle to relaunch the most secure mobile crypto wallet on the market.
- Implemented a swap feature that let the product reach break-even.
- Managed an efficient team of designers; founding product designer for an NFT news-minting product and a crypto education platform.
- May 2021 – Oct 2022Lead Product Designer / Design Manager, 3Commas.io · Tallinn, Estonia · Hybrid
- Research-driven updates to trading bots increased the share of users with balance and improved bot churn.
- Enhanced trial mode and paywalls, increasing revenue and the paying user base.
- Optimised the design process, improving the average pipeline cycle by 35%.
- Jan 2020 – May 2021Product Manager (UGOL.Configurator, UGOL.RMS) / Senior Product Designer, UGOL.ME · St. Petersburg, Russia · Remote
- Found gaps with Yandex analytics and shipped new pricing and a new funnel that boosted conversion 5.5 times and filled the renovation department's capacity.
- Researched the renovation process and documentation and turned it into a working IT product; managed a Scrum team of three developers.
- Designed highly interactive interfaces including the AI-powered 3D design project generator, a new acquisition flow, a personal cabinet and an ERP.
- Aug 2018 – Jan 2020Product Designer, Time Out Group plc · St. Petersburg, Russia
- Worked with cross-functional stakeholders and researched user behaviour to increase conversions and retention.
- Interface design for several special projects, plus visual and motion design.
- Jan 2017 – Aug 2018UI/UX Designer, Spiks LLC · St. Petersburg, Russia · Hybrid
- Problem interviews with stakeholders; user pattern, business process and user behaviour research.
- Maintained UI kits, UI animation, visual and motion design.
- UI/UX for a corporate portal, ERP and mobile app for a pharma holding, an automotive ERP, a watch-to-earn adtech platform and an educational system, 1,000+ screens.
Contracts, research and side projects
- 2019 – presentContract product and UI designer, Call4Life, Israel
Chat UI for an AI symptom checker, a UI kit, logotypes and investor decks for a four-person telemedicine start-up. - 2020Product designer, Mysh.app
Nightlife discovery app: research, UI and ads; 20,000+ users, top 100 Lifestyle in App Store Russia. - 2019 – 2020Master's research, ITMO University
Semantic maths editor: eye-tracked lab tests, six prototypes, Best Science Paper. - 2014 – 2018Co-founder, product owner, designer, Ultimate Workshop, ultm.me
University apparel e-shop with its own CRM and a garment customiser; 10,000+ orders, sold in 2018.
Skills
Product design; UX research: interviews, surveys, eye-tracking; Heuristic evaluation and UX audits; Design systems and tokens; Design leadership and mentoring; Product management: RICE, backlog, funnels; Information architecture and user flows; UX writing; Accessibility and contrast rules; Web and Android UI; Motion and graphic design; A/B tests and web analytics.
Tools
Figma, Tokens Studio, Storybook, Miro, Whimsical, Jira, Yandex.Metrika and Webvisor, Photoshop scripting, TypeScript prototypes, Notion.
Languages
English fluent, Russian native.
Work setup
Remote as a contractor (sole proprietorship in Georgia); on-site with relocation, visa sponsorship needed.
Education
- ITMO University, Master's degree, Human-Computer Interaction Design, With honors
Top-1 IT university in Russia. Thesis: research and development of an application interface to work with semantic markup of mathematical expressions. - Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Master's degree, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Erasmus study
Graphic design, computer animation, commercial photography and sound design.
Certificates and courses
- Experimental Interaction Design, Tallinn University, Jul 2019
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA), Cisco, Jun 2018
- Legal Support for Startups, Moscow State University
- Yandex Design School
Honors and awards
- Digital Breakthrough 2019 Hackathon Winner, Jun 2019
- Worldskills 2018: Web Development, 3rd place, Mar 2018
- SMZHack: 4th place and support
Publications
- Hypertext markup of mathematical expressions, Collection of abstracts of the Congress of Young Scientists, electronic edition, 2019
Experience, education and skills imported from LinkedIn on 2026-09-06. Case studies at https://danila-filatov.pages.dev/