# Iryna M.

> Quality Systems \​ Product Design \​ Operations

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/irynam

Digital Product Designer by night, Operations by day. Key strengths include leadership, communication, and strategic planning competence. 
As an Admin and HR Generalist, I blend the heart of human resources with the hustle of operations—organizing the details, solving the puzzles, and bringing order to the everyday. Whether it’s onboarding new talent with warmth and precision, planning culture-building events, or making sure the data tells the right story, I turn to-do lists into done lists—and help teams thrive in the process.
Design Mastery: a strong command of design fundamentals, including UX research, visual design, interaction design, and prototyping, applied in skillful product-driven ways.
Mastership of Design Systems. Advanced Figma features: tokens, variables, and component libraries.
Extensive knowledge of art and design history, strong skills in typography, visual communications, digital arts, and graphic design.

## Work Experience
### Freelance Graphic/Interaction/Web Design @ Unknown
Jan 2022 – Present
Create new websites & apps from scratch, website redesign
Design marketing materials, brand identities for festivals, and events

### UX/ UI Designer @ Fem Equity® & Harness Project
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Remote

### Quality Systems Specialist @ Element Science, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Office & Special Project Manager @ Element Science, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024

### Product Designer @ Kinoko Bio
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Remote
- Redesign desktop and mobile apps with an agile team for a B2C company serving an eCommerce platform, resulting in improved UX/UI initiatives in the customer-centric interface design.
- Redesign content cards on product information display to be responsive, ensuring they scale appropriately across mobile and desktop devices without compromising usability.
- Design clickable, visually distinct elements to facilitate user interactions like navigating to more detailed information screens or taking action.
- Develop interactive prototypes in Figma for web and mobile to effectively communicate design concepts for stakeholder engagement and alignment on product development decisions and business objectives.
- Run unmoderated usability tests reaching a broader audience of users and capturing diverse perspectives on desktop and mobile functionality, ensuring designs support the targeted consumer needs.
- Manage a developer handoff with extensive design documentation from style guides to component libraries, concluding with minimal errors and inconsistencies in the final product.

### Product Designer @ Grape
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Remote
- Create and prototype a mobile application for a B2C company with an agile team of 5 designers, creating a seamless and intuitive experience to boost eCommerce engagement within the product. 
- Redesign the onboarding experience to simplify and offer a frictionless registration option, such as a phone sign-in,  generating faster and easier user engagement and boosting accessibility. 
- Produce prominent and intuitive CTAs with clearly labeled buttons and links to indicate the actions to be performed and to guide users through each step of the onboarding process, culminating in maximized engagement.
- Build high-fidelity screens and prototypes to ensure an essential and polished representation of the product that retains users and encourages frequent interactions. 
- Conduct user tests to validate usability assumptions, leading to iterating and implementing actionable changes to optimize the user-centered shopping service.
- Prepare the final design file for a developer handoff with overarching complete annotations and design specifications to ensure the accurate reflection of a final product with the intended design and maintain consistency, reducing development time.

### Department Manager School of Architecture @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
*Serve as office manager by welcoming guests, receiving and distributing mail, maintaining security system and protocols, and answering staff questions regarding processes and policies
* Manage the organization of all office functions
* Coordinate office space layout changes and manage physical office layout
* Represent the department as a direct liaison among faculty, students, and Academy administration
* Organize and maintain departmental expenditures and budget. 
* Manage planning events(Spring Show, guest lectures, orientation, DAT/faculty meetings, Lecture series, town hall meetings; assist with coordination and logistics for organization-wide meetings and retreats, both virtual and in-person)
* Oversee the organization of timelines for projects
* Manage all calendar set up and appointment scheduling for Directors and full time Faculty in MO Outlook
* Manage all correspondence
* Submit completed purchase orders and reimbursement requests and track to completion
*Process all incoming forms and schedule as needed( field trip requests, class make-ups, guest speakers, etc)
* Coordinate faculty attendance at conferences and expos
* Process bi weekly online time sheets in Workday
* Coordinate with building management and external vendors to address facilities issues with Business 
  Operations Department
* Extensive use of G Suite, Outlook, SharePoint and PeopleSoft

### Administrative Assistant & Studio Coordinator, School of Architecture @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Manage and support daily functions of the department directors, faculty members and students
* Heavy scheduling of meetings and events, coordination of shared spaces 
* Primary point of contact for building, studio, and equipment repairs
* Planning facilities layout for the academic events, lecture talks, presentations
* Collaboration with AV, IT and Video Crew departments for special appearances
* Academic database updates; extensive use of PeopleSoft
* Responsible for the upkeep of the department architecture blog in WordPress
* Purchase orders, and invoice processing
* Data entry and updates
* Manage complex personal and professional calendars via Outlook and Google
* Draft emails and correspondence

### Programs and Events Assistant @ International Art Museum of America (IAMA)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Coordinate and schedule meetings, internal and external events and various educational programs
* Curate and manage all aspects of the Tendergold Art gallery: art installation, de-installation, supervision and organization of opening receptions, handling of artists’ contracts and artworks sales
* Create monthly art related children's activities, from concept to budgeting and realization
* Wrote and perform a 1 hour guided tour of the museum main galleries on a monthly basis
* Work closely with all departments to plan and promote all events, and ensure they run smoothly
* Demonstrate initiative by keeping up-to-date with the art trends in the Bay Area and creating event proposals accordingly
* Cross team collaboration, work for the assigned marketing projects and issues
* Create digital and print graphic design materials
* Use of Quickbooks for inventory and purchase orders

### Shift Team Lead/ Manager @ Onedome Global
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Supervised a team of 25 to 30 employees by providing workflow organization and resolving any customer service-related issues
* Onboarded patrons with a thorough presentation of the atworks and the Unreal Garden, an augmented reality experience
* Managed all floor employees schedules and resolved any schedule conflict
* Provided training on company policies and procedures for all new employees

### Administrative Assistant/ Office Manager @ Kirovograd National Technical University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Ukraine
* Managed office supplies stock and placed orders
* Prepared accurate reports and presentations with statistical data as assigned
* Maintained a department calendar and schedule
* Scheduled in house and external events
* Facilitated student work training in Western Europe during summer: ensured visa applications for the participants and secured travel arrangements with accommodations
* Was a liaison for marketing agencies, helped maintained website and social media accounts


## Education
### GDL in Law ( Contract, Tort, Equity and Trust, Land Law )
BPP Law School

### Associate's degree in English Language and Literature
Cottey College

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in English and German Linguistics, Literature
Kirovograd State Pedagogical University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13