# Olga Papadopoulou > Senior Product Designer | 0→1 & Growth for 50M+ MAU products | 8+ years across consumer apps: AI, FinTech, E-commerce, Mobility | Startup Co-Founder — I help mature businesses grow and startups find GTM strategy Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/olgapapadopoulou With 8+ years of experience launching consumer products, I’ve built an entrepreneurial mindset, strong creative intuition, and a deep love for craft and storytelling. I’ve also had the chance to share my perspective on design and technology through media publications. My career has been shaped by 0→1 product launches in emerging markets. As a founding designer within Yango, I traveled across Africa to conduct field research and help make online shopping accessible in cash-driven, low-digitization environments. Building products without infrastructure forced me to think creatively, operate under constraints, and design systems that truly work in the real world. That experience shaped how I approach product design today with full ownership, resilience, and a bias toward action. I’ve worked across both large-scale ecosystems and VC-backed startups, collaborating with companies like Yandex, Yango and Devexperts, and launched impactful projects recognized by leading tech media. ✦ Redesigned the #1 super app in Europe (54M+ MAU), shifting user perception and launching cross-service discovery that unlocked new growth loops. I optimized user funnels across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization, using hypothesis-driven experiments. ✦ Built agentic e-commerce products (AI-assisted buying, payments, checkout, B2B seller tools) ✦ Co-founded and scaled marketplace products across MENA & Africa, working directly with the CEO, CPO, and CTO. ✦ Operated across roles as a product manager, creative director, and early-stage product designer. ✦ Led and mentored designers while maintaining high craft standards across teams. ✦ Designed trading and AI-driven platforms recognized with 30+ industry awards. I’ve built a toolkit that blends strategy, innovation, and creative flair. I bring experience managing entire product lifecycles, aligning cross-functional teams, and navigating strategy. I’m especially passionate about the consumer domains I’ve had the chance to work in: AI, E-Commerce, FinTech, Mobility, Ride-Hailing, Maps, and Navigation. I care deeply about building products that are not only functional, but desirable, intuitive, and commercially impactful. Recently, I’ve been exploring AI-first workflows, rapid prototyping, and vibe-coding on Claude to accelerate execution. Currently based in San Francisco and open to on-site roles across mentioned domains, from large-scale companies to AI startups. 🇺🇸 O-1 Talent Visa Holder (US Work Authorization) 📩 Contact: olya.woahoo@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Design @ Yango Jan 2024 – Present | Дубай, Объединённые Арабские Эмираты Yango is an ecosystem with 10+ everyday services in 30+ countries across the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Founding designer and design lead of Series B startup, partnering directly with C-level to shape multi-year product vision and define GTM strategy. Encouraging individuals and SMB to start selling safe to Yango 1.22M users across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Own and drive 0→1 launches (go-to-market, packaging, ops): ✦ Consumer marketplace. ✦ B2B SaaS for SMEs, operated as Designer & PM. ✦ FinTech products, including payments, checkout, BNPL, and repayments Key results: ✦ Expanded third-party seller coverage by 60% by enabling the agentic commerce search workflows. Turned generative AI capabilities into a buyer agent that discovers, evaluates, and sources products across the open internet. Defined the product’s information architecture to balance autonomous purchasing flows with user-controlled refinement. ✦ Drove 6× order growth by redesigning an embedded checkout solution for third-party platforms, enabling secure purchases with integrated delivery across external websites and messaging channels. ✦ Increased feed interactions by 50% by launching reviews and video-based recommendations that strengthen trust and improve product discovery. ✦ Grew AOV by 2.5× by leading the BNPL rollout and adapting the model for a cash-dominant market, positioning cash-on-delivery as the first installment. Leadership scope: ✦ Built and scale a design team of 3 by hiring and mentoring product designers to own end-to-end journeys across multiple product streams. ✦ Partnered directly with the CPO to align product direction, GTM priorities, and execution across business and design. ✦ Drove cross-functional execution with Yandex Market, Pay, and Go ecosystem teams to launch integrated commerce and fintech features. ### Senior Product Designer @ Yandex Go Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Москва, Россия Yandex Go is #1 consumer super-app, integrating mobility, delivery, and e-commerce with 54M+ MAU Led design within one of the core product streams, contributing to the company’s transition from a ride-hailing service (>54M MAU) to a city-mate superapp to reflect all cross-service scenarios that address everything that may be important in everyday life: from getting around the city, ordering food, to planning travel and entertainment. Own and drive: ✦ SuperApp new architecture & cross-service Discovery Feed. ✦ New launches, including Maps and Navigation. ✦ Loyalty programs and user retention. Key results: ✦ Launched a new main screen for Yandex Go and Yango, increasing new user activation by up to 5× and growing non-taxi GMV by 10% through improved service discovery and cross-service navigation. ✦ Designed a reusable template system for presenting services in the personalized cross-service Feed SDK, increasing food-tech and e-commerce orders by 20%. ✦ Executed the rollout of a navigation product from early experiment to launches in 8 countries, integrating the technology into the client app and reaching 400K+ MAU within 3 months without marketing spend. ✦ Developed a 0→1 geo-discovery product that engaged 20%+ of MAUs by embedding local discovery into mobility scenarios. ✦ Revitalized the discount tool into a personalized loyalty mechanism for taxi, generating $XXXM incremental GMV through more targeted retention and repeat-purchase incentives. ✦ Standardized cross-service interaction patterns across the superapp, improving design consistency and enabling a more seamless user experience across multiple everyday services. Leadership scope: ✦ Guided junior designers through regular feedback and design mentorship, strengthening execution quality across the product group. ✦ Coordinated with the art director, communication design leads, and Yandex Market product team to align product experiences, visual systems, and launch priorities across services. ### Product Designer: SuperApp, Growth @ Yandex Go Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Moscow, Moscow City, Russia ### Product Designer @ Devexperts Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Мюнхен Devexperts is a global financial technology company that builds trading and AI-driven platforms with 30+ top industry awards. ✦ Designed professional trading and financial interfaces for data-intensive, real-time environments, resulting in a 30% improvement in key user actions. ✦ Enhanced navigation and filtering logic, which increased interaction rate by 20%. ### Lead UX/UI Designer @ UserStory Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 UserStory is a multi-award-winning mobile development agency consistently ranked among the Top design agencies by Ruward. Led visuals for enterprise-facing products and promo surfaces supporting 100K–1M+ end users, operating in multi-stakeholder environments. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural communications, Faculty of Pedagogy Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University) Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 ### Continuing Professional Education in Fine Arts Kuban State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ### Continuing Studies in Building Ventures That Create Lasting Impact Stanford University Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/opapadopoulou - Website: https://olya.works --- Source: https://flows.cv/olgapapadopoulou JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/olgapapadopoulou/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07