Daria Khitrina

Daria Khitrina

Product Designer in Germany, they/them

Product Designer with 3 years of experience in complex B2B and E2E products in SaaS and e-commerce domain. I focus on simplifying business processes and transforming them into user-friendly interfaces with accessibility in mind.

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Work Experience

2023 — Now
Munich

Innosabi is a leading provider of innovation management technology, that empowers over 250 companies globally, including Siemens, Postbank, Allianz, Bayer, and Munich Airport.


Accomplishments:
✦ Created built-in analytical and reporting features from brief to MVP release in 9 months
✦ Implemented an AI UX copywriting assistant with custom guidelines at component level. This has significantly improved the overall quality of the copy in product.

My role:
✦ Designing UX for key product user flows
✦ Conducting user testing and interviews
✦ Implementing design process in a team of 3
✦ Design quality control for convenience and consistency
✦ Communicating with internal and external stakeholders
✦ Development support: ticket creation, estimation and testing

2022 — 2023

Megamarket by Samokat is one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces in Russia with 20 million unique visitors, 10,000 sellers, and 10 million products.

Accomplishments:
✦ Designed new B2B Promotion features and tools to increase merchant engagement rate and share of promotion in GMV.
✦ Improved the merchant registration flow on the marketplace to increase registration to activation conversion by 15% and reduce merchant time to market by 2.5 days.
✦ Designed features for the product management system that reduced TTM for new product cards.
✦ In collaboration with marketing and product, redesigned landing page to attract more merchants, which increased registration conversion.

My role:
✦ Collaborated with Product Managers and business analysts of departments to identify crucial functional requirements. Presented and defended my solutions to them.
✦ Interacted with front-end and back-end developers. Conducted design reviews on test environments from the frontend stages to release, following the handoff of layouts and their implementation.
✦ Conducted brief UX-research sessions with B2B users. For more in-depth research, I collaborated with UX researchers: developed prototypes, proposed hypotheses, and participated in interviews as an observer.
✦ Facilitated new designer onboarding, explained the interactions among various B2B products. It resulted in rapid understanding of the product's high-level structure, enabling quick orientation and knowledge of colleagues' design focus.

2021 — 2022

City projects is a non-profit foundation, advocating for comfortable urban environments: attractive public spaces, modern urban transport, accessible infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists.

Accomplishments:
✦ Designed from scratch CRM system to manage foundation branches in 40+ cities.
✦ Designed CRM Design System to maintain uniformity on all pages.
✦ Developed dashboards to analyse efficiency of regional branches.

My role:
✦ Designed websites for special projects to attract more people to the foundation cause.
✦ Worked together with the development: discussed technical requirements, reviewed the laid-out pages.
✦ Conducted usability testing to improve experience.
✦ Presented design solutions to fund managers.

2021 — 2021

Anastasia Bryukhanova — ex-candidate for the Russian State Duma, Peter Karmanov — ex-candidate for the Moscow City Duma, representing the liberal democratic opposition in Russia.

Accomplishments:
✦ Created agitation materials with 2M+ circulation.
✦ TTM for printed agitation ranged from 1 to 4 days, including printing.
✦ Designed landing page for call center recruitment, resulting in 100+ hires in 7 days.
✦ Created CRM system for 1000+ agitators for efficient route planning.

My role:
✦ Election campaign branding
✦ Agitation design and pre-print
✦ Web design for internal landing pages, CRM and fundraising streams
✦ Worked in a fast-paced environment, where the objective was to raise the profile of the candidate from an unknown figure to a prominent city politician within a tight timeframe of 90 days.

Anastasia Bryukhanova's campaign was recognized as the most noticeable in 2021. The candidates won the election by paper voting, but their victory was stolen through falsifications in electronic voting (welcome to Russia)

2021 — 2021
Designer at Freelance

✦ Designed website blocks, ensuring adherence to brand guidelines.
✦ Developed branding and brand guidelines for consistent visual identity across platforms.
✦ Created engaging presentations for complex data.
✦ Laid out multi-page publications such as franchisee books with polished typography & layout.

2020 — 2021

#Packer is a small branding agency

✦ Oversaw the work of a design department consisting of 3-6 people, including graphic and web designers, developers, and UX designers.
✦ Managed frontend and backend development of one-page and multi-page websites.
✦ Planned tasks, communicated with clients and contractors, and searched for employees

Writing

2024

You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…

2024

How I create a calm work environment as a Product Designer and Manager

Projects

2024
Building in-App Reporting from 0 to 1 to boost Saas platform marketability at innosabi
2023
Fixing the Dynamic Pricing interface for sellers on Megamarket at Samokat
2022
Optimizing Discount Mechanism for Marketplace Promotions at Samokat

Side Projects

2022

Discover the Georgian alphabet, one of 14 globally. Learning it in Georgia, I created a phone wallpaper cheat sheet. Now it helps my expat friends.