# Julia Starkov

> Lead Staff Product Designer at Shippo

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/juliastarkov

Hi, I'm Julia  👋  I'm a product designer experienced in the full-cycle of UX design, moving between research, strategy, and ideation seamlessly. I'm jazzed on designing experiences that help people live better lives and get stuff done.

## Work Experience
### Lead Staff Product Designer @ Shippo
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Product Designer @ Shippo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Senior Product Designer @ Shippo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior UX / UI Designer @ Mozilla
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• User experience design, cross-organizational strategic collaboration, and rapid user interface iteration for Firefox’s Subscription Platform.
• Leading UX and establishing a design and user research process within the IT organization, including championing for accessibility best practices. 
• Conducting and participating in extensive user research initiatives, with insights driving business decisions, high level project planning, and interface design.  
• My work on the Subscription Platform allowed for the first paid products and successful customer billing transactions in Mozilla’s history.

### Lead UX & Product Designer @ Botanic Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
• User experience and interface design for a chatbot building product and client services projects, including work for Skype, Logitech, and Monash University. 
• Leading the full-cycle of design, I focused on research, strategy, and rapid iteration. 
• As the first and sole designer, I established our process for conducting user research, creation and collaboration of design assets, and UI implementation.
• My designs were used to successfully secure investment for development of our home-grown product, the Botanic Author.

### UX / UI Designer @ Botanic Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
User experience research and interface design for client services projects.

### UX / UI Designer @ Freelance
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• User experience design, information architecture strategy, and research.
• Client work included design consultations and a shipped website redesign for OpenJustice, a California Department of Justice initiative.


## Education
### Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History
University of Florida

### UX Design Immersive Program in UX Design
General Assembly


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/juliastarkov
- Portfolio: http://www.juliastarkov.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13