# Roman Horskyi

> UI/UX, Product, Branding Designer - AI, Finance, Creative design, Branding, Fintech, SaaS, CRM, CMS, ERP | Public speaker | Remote | Open to global opportunities

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/romanhorskyi

Product-design leader (9 yrs) who pairs a neuroscience background with AI-driven UX to scale SaaS in fintech, gov-, HR- and ed-tech. Ex-founder credited with a +75 % GMV and +22 pp NPS lift, shipping 600+ screens across APAC & Europe. Led teams of 10+, mentored 120 designers (82 % placement). Adobe Community Fund grantee and “365 Posters” creator.

Telegram: https://t.me/horskyir
Email: horskyir@gmail.com
Tel: +380962501688

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Warmy.io - Email channel. Reliable.
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Zypsy
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Designed a node-based orchestration canvas for agent creation, reducing time-to-first-agent from 3.5 days to 8 hours (-77%), cutting configuration errors 42% and lifting activation +19 pp and NPS +14
- Built the token-driven design system (90+ components, WCAG 2.1 AA) that cut design-to-dev handoff 34%, visual defects 52%, accessibility issues 78%, and release lead time 18%.
- Validated 17 product hypotheses/features - ran 22 customer interviews, 14 prototype tests, and 8 A/B experiments; shipped 9, killed 6, pivoted 2 - driving +9.4% trial-to-paid conversion, +7.0 pp day-7 retention, and avoiding ~420 engineering hours by eliminating low-ROI work

### Senior Product Designer @ Malbret Mozaic PTE LTD
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Singapore
- Led UX for a complex B2B travel-operations platform (≈ 250 screens, 20 dashboards), redesigning key workflows and dashboards to cut itinerary-creation time from about 45 minutes to under 10 and drive steady month-on-month GMV growth.
- Designed a motion-rich marketing site (A/B optimisation) that raised qualified-lead conversion 2.1 % → 6.9 % (3.3 ×) while cutting CAC 41 %
- Rebuilt the brand & design system end-to-end - logo suite, 5-colour palette, 12-step type scale, icon set, Figma tokens that reduced asset-creation time 60%

### Design Lead @ Tree Solutions
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Managed and scaled a team of 10+ designers and developers, increasing productivity by 40% through design critiques, mentorship, and standardized workflows in Figma, Notion, and Zeplin.
- Led end-to-end design for 10+ cross-industry projects (Fintech, SaaS, Healthcare, EdTech, HRTech), achieving 95% on-time delivery and improving efficiency by 30% using Design Thinking and Double Diamond.
- Boosted customer satisfaction by 22% (via NPS/CSAT) by embedding UX strategy into lifecycles, aligning design with user and business goals, and driving consistent quality.
- Built scalable design systems for multiple clients, cutting design-to-dev time by 35%, reducing UI inconsistencies by 60%, and ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance.

### Design mentor @ Mate academy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Kyiv, Ukraine
- Coached 120 students through a 20-week product-design track - implemented OKR-driven learning plans and a peer-critique rubric that yielded an 82 % job-placement rate (avg. 2.7 months to first offer)
- Designed & launched two 5-day “UX Power-Sprint” video intensives that blended Design Thinking sprints with JTBD mapping; upsold to 38 % of the active learner base and lifted monthly course revenue +10 % within eight weeks.

### Co-Founder @ SoftTrainer
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Enterprise / SaaS / B2B product. Mobile app and AI simulator to assess and improve soft skills

Key achievements:
- Defined the direction of product development among 30+ hypotheses using RICE analysis.
- Designed an MVP application from idea to scaling, for 100+ screens, in two months.

### Product Designer @ University of Zurich
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
- Built a scalable, WCAG 2.1-AA design system with 84 reusable components in Figma; cut developer hand-off time by 35 % and halved visual-consistency defects.
- Applied RICE and Kano methods to prioritise a 40-item feature backlog and redesign onboarding, bringing set-up time from about 15 minutes to under 5 minutes through LTI and SSO integrations.
- Delivered 100+ production-ready screens in 8 months and ran 20+ moderated usability tests that surfaced 50+ high-impact fixes, trimming critical UX issues 40 % pre-launch.

### Product Designer @ Smart Home
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Key achievements:
- Determined the focus of product development by using the Kano Model, selecting the best features among 23
- Tested 30+ product hypotheses with unmoderated testing in Maze;
- Designed 100+ screens in 3 months.

Responsibilities:
- Unmoderated user testing
- Development of design systems
- Information Architecture

### Coworking Search Service @ Unknown
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Key achievements:
- Tested 23 product hypotheses with 10+ interviews;
- Conducted 10+ CustDev interviews and created 2 user personas;
- Designed 50+ screens in 2 months.

Responsibilities:
- User research
- Wireframing
- Testing

### UI/UX Design teacher, Course developer @ Ampli (teen accelerator)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Ukraine
IT-accelerator for talented teenagers.

Key achievements:
- Prepared 50+ students, of which more than 80% were employed at an entry-level job during the first 3 months;
- Increased the number of sales of a web design course by 10% thanks to 2 video intensives I prepared in a few weeks.

### UI/UX Designer @ Promin Aerospace
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Kyiv, Ukraine
Aerospace startup building the smallest orbital rocket in history.

Key achievements:
- Helped attract more than $500,000 in investment by developing 2 pitch decks in a few weeks;
- Increased the company's media visibility by designing a website in 6 months.

### Motion Graphic Designer @ StarLightMedia
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Kyiv, Ukraine
StarLightMedia – the biggest Ukrainian media group.

### Head of Design @ Омріяна Країна
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Kyiv, Ukraine
A charity funded by King Charles III

Key achievements:
- Increased the speed of the design team by 50% by organizing design processes and conducting a series of workshops for the team in 5 months.
- Managed and recruited a cross-functional team of 10+ designers, marketers, and SMM specialists.

Responsibilities:
- Organization of design processes
- Managing a design team

### Business Presentation Designer @ Deep Pharma Intelligence
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United Kingdom
Investment intelligence agency focused on Healthcare Tech.

Key achievements:
- Attracted new clients to the company by developing 10+ corporate presentations in 6 months.
- Speeded up design creation by almost 50% by developing templates for corporate presentations.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Neurobiology
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

### UI/UX Designer in Industrial and Product Design
Mate academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/horskyir
- Website: https://www.behance.net/horskyir
- Website: https://t.me/horskyir
- Website: https://calendly.com/horskyir/30min

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Last updated: 2026-04-05