# Uliana Kudina

> Product manager | Forbes 30u30 nominee (2022) | Ex-Yandex

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

Forbes 30 under 30 nominee 2022. Ex-Yandex.
Product Manager with 9+ years experience in designing, shipping and scaling consumer apps to 85M+ MAU, launching new products from scratch (0-1), building and managing cross-functional dev teams.
https://30-under-30.forbes.ru/2022/463489-ul-ana-kudina

## Work Experience
### Builder @ Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Manager (Y Combinator S15 company) @ Scentbird
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
YC-backed consumer subscription platform rethinking fragrance & beauty discovery.

Owned and drove high-impact product initiatives across subscription and e-commerce, working end-to-end from strategy and discovery to launch and iteration.
- Led cross-functional teams (engineering, design, analytics, marketing, ops) through execution and launch
- Shipped complex initiatives across billing, pricing, payments, and international expansion
- Used data, experimentation to improve conversion, retention, and LTV

Operated with high ownership in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

### Co-founder & Product @ AGON
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
AGON is the unique fitness app, which builds long-term engagement with users by offering a game-based approach with AI-powered challenges. We introduce a completely new way of working out, which would change the fitness routine of the users of the outdated instructional video apps.

### Senior Product Manager - Yandex.Maps @ Yandex
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
Mapping service that helps people find organizations and places nearby, choose public transport, and plan convenient routes. 85M+ monthly active users.
- Led “Discovery” and “User Generated Content” streams. Created product strategy and vision that allowed achieving 3x growth in number of user’s reviews and photos.
- Launched “Personal account” social feature that enabled UGC in the app and led to 2x growth in user engagement.
- Designed a new “Search” feature (main search screens, nearby search scenarios, and user onboarding). Performed a/b testing and experiments. Led collaboration with the marketing department to support product launch.
- Launched “Accessibility” feature. Created the first version of the apps for people with visual impairment (including VoiceOver and TalkBack support of the main features such as searching for places and addresses, getting directions, etc.)
- Led product cycle aligned cross-functional collaboration between engineering team, designers, and product stakeholders. Developed product growth strategy based on UGC and Discovery.
- Managed the teams through customer discovery, hypotheses validation, and product development processes.

### Product Manager - Yandex.Health (Telehealth) @ Yandex
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Yandex.Health is a mobile application that allows you to discuss your health issues directly with qualified online doctors. It also gives people a chance to receive medical advice without getting out of bed: talk to a doctor via video conference or online chat. 
I worked from the start to execution of this project. From the creation of the idea, to the launch of the product. (key launch — Yandex.Health mobile application (November 2016))
Responsibilities:
– Creating concepts about new features, working on the design part of the applications
– Application improvement considering user needs and business goals

### Product Designer in Yandex.Money @ Yandex
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Yandex.Money is electronic payment service.
- Redesigned payment service.
- Created UX concepts, implemented UI optimizations.
- Built promo-landings in collaboration with product and marketing departments.

### UI Designer @ Mamnadzor application - Moscow App Contest by Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Our team became the winner of the Moscow App contest in 2013 which was organized by Google & the Government of Moscow. We created the application for young mothers using the Android platform. 

As a prize, we visited Google Tel-Aviv and Google Campus (Campus Tel Aviv, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, is the hub for entrepreneurs and developers) in December 2013 for meetings with local start-ups.

Before this, I was in charge of:
— Creating usability tests, identifying errors and their solutions
— Creating user interface layout
— Prototyping and designing mobile application
— Creating visual solutions for the submission of projects
— Creating video clips

### UI/UX Designer @ Raum7
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
— Prototyping the user interfaces
— Creating versions of the site for different devices (responsive design)
— Web design
— Identity

Raum7 is a company that specializes in creating interfaces and designs for different projects.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering
ITMO University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
ITMO University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №239
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-25