# Dimas Yankauskas

> Head of Product & UX | Visionary AI-Powered Doctor & Patient Solutions | Empathetic Design | Series A–B Startups

Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dimas

Visionary Head of Product & UX Design with 18+ years scaling AI-driven digital health and marketplace platforms, launching FDA-compliant products, and driving product-led growth (PLG) in high-stakes, regulated environments. I’ve led 0→1 platforms adopted by 150+ organizations, governed enterprise-grade design systems, and scaled design teams through Series A–B growth, embedding empathy-driven leadership and DEI practices to achieve zero turnover.

Skilled in LLMs, predictive models, and trauma-aware marketplace UX, I unite behavioral psychology-driven consumer health design with executive storytelling to deliver scalable, WCAG-accessible solutions. I persuade C-suite stakeholders for strategic pivots, align product vision with patient engagement and clinician workflow optimization, and innovate within FDA/HIPAA constraints. My expertise spans international UX, medical communication platforms, cost-saving administrative efficiency, AI-driven life sciences UX, and scalable design ops, transforming patient lives globally.

Key Achievements:
- Scaled 0→1 AI-first and marketplace platforms adopted by 150+ organizations, driving clinical outcomes.
- Launched FDA-regulated products, unifying patient trust and business KPIs.
- Founded enterprise-grade design systems, boosting reuse and delivery speed across mobile/web.
- Defined PLG strategies via OKRs, GTM, and user research, accelerating market fit.
- Scaled design teams through Series A–B growth, embedding DEI and critique culture.
- Delivered trauma-informed medical communication UX, enhancing clinician and patient trust.

Seeking Head of Product & UX roles at Series A–B healthcare SaaS startups to lead visionary, trauma-aware AI solutions that transform clinician and patient outcomes in collaborative, mission-driven cultures.

## Work Experience
### Product & UX Strategy Consultant @ Unknown
Jan 2024 – Present | Los Gatos, California, United States
- Acted as fractional CPO and design strategist for startups focused on PTSD, virtual mental care, and AI-driven engagement
- Led product design strategy as a consultant for a communications company, driving AI integration into existing platforms
- Directed UX team and guided product evolution, client segmentation, and workflow optimization
- Recommended strategic market expansion and internal productivity enhancements through AI-powered UX and behavioral design
- Led prompt engineering and research-based design to enhance platform usability and client productivity

### Head of Product & UX Design @ Aluna (acquired by Huma Therapeutics)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led product and UX for a B2B2C asthma monitoring marketplace platform, integrating spirometry hardware, mobile apps, and clinician dashboards for real-time decision-making UX.

Conducted patient and clinician interviews to design critical, real-time alert systems for medical communication and patient engagement.

Championed WCAG-compliant, trauma-aware consumer health UX for elderly patients, introducing adaptive flows to enhance data accuracy.

### Product Design & UX Consultant @ Aluna
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Product Design Lead @ Physiosigns Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, CA
Led UX for an AI-powered chronic disease prediction platform, designing multi-persona diagnostic tools for clinicians and patients in life sciences contexts globally.

Developed SNOMED-coded triage system, streamlining clinician decisions with real-time, explainable enterprise AI UX.

### Product Design Lead @ AiLive Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale
Define a UX strategy, researching, conceptualizing and designing new excited product.

### User Experience Architect - Mobile/Web @ YP
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Glendale, California, United States

### UX Design Manager and Product Designer @ AT&T
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, CA

### Lead of Product Design & User Experience (UX) @ Plusmo Inc. (acquired by AT&T)
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Sr. Product Designer @ PayPal an eBay company
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 | San jose
Translated design problems with many stakeholders into scalable interactive design solutions, and communicated design rationales to various audiences.  Led user interface redesign, usability improvement initiative on PayPal resolution center for sellers and buyer. Worked closely with product team to incorporate UI requirements into design solutions using user-centered design principles. Proposed number of improvements for design and ui development, for example “using CSS sprites for common ui components”, “practice story-telling design” etc. 
Participated in internal innovation contests, reviewed coworkers designs and provided feedbacks and recommendations.

### Freelance User Experience Design consultant @ Sparklingux.com
Jan 2000 – Jan 2006
Consulted with small business and none profit to review current products and provide design solutions to solve user needs and business challenges through User Research, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and Prototyping

### Interaction Designer @ Advertising Agency "Creative-line"
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Ukraine
Utilized design research, wireframing, visual design, prototyping, and other UX processes to help small and large business effectively present their products and services to the market. Adapted creative directions into winning design for Web and wap sites. Interfaced with clients, project management and engineering team to deliver digital products.
Continuously worked and researched the ways to improve all stages of UX and DEV process in order to bring more innovations and the latest UX techniques and best practices. 
I was promoted to manage the team of designers and production artists in my last year in the company.

### Web designer @ Kiev Web Portal, Ukraine
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001
Designed, optimized and developed non-profit and e-commerce websites. Communicated and interacted with clients;  Participated in all stages of website design and production including information architecture, ui design, visual design, slice and dice psds , hand-coding html/css as well as releasing;


## Education
### M.A. in Computer Science
Kherson National Technical University

### B.A. Psychology (Personality)
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dimasyankauskas

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Last updated: 2026-04-13