Nikita Pakutin

Nikita Pakutin

London, United Kingdom, he/him

About

I am a product manager with a UX design foundation and five years of experience in B2C and B2B scale-ups. Passionate about media, tools for thought, and the social impact of technology.

Recognised as an emerging leader by the UK Global Talent visa program. Acted as the guest mentor at ITMO University, HSE Art and Design School, Yandex School of Management, and ProductStar.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
London, United Kingdom

Revolut is Europe’s leading neobank, serving 30M+ customers worldwide. I oversaw a suite of financial wellness products: Transactions, Analytics, Budgeting, Insights, and Net Worth.

• Defined and executed the new team’s product strategy, driving user research and concept design
• Overhauled the Transactions UX, resulting in a 300% boost in scheduled payments traffic, a 14% uptick in new scheduled payments, and 3–4 times faster loading on low-end devices
• Launched the RevReview 2022, an annual customer spending summary, boosting conversion to social sharing by 20% YoY
• Served as a line manager for seven engineers and designers, helping them to onboard and grow

2021 — 2022
Remote

Miro is a visual collaboration tool with 50M+ users among 99% of Fortune 500. I managed two cross-functional teams, leading the interface redesign to reduce friction for non-tech-savvy audiences.

• Orchestrated the whiteboard UI redesign and rewrite, defining goals, scope and success criteria
• Improved key action learnability by 20%, increasing the Overview usage by 114% and Marketplace visits by 29%
• Delivered UX enhancements for toolbars, search, multitasking, frames, and object alignment

2018 — 2020
Moscow, Russia

Kinopoisk is the #1 streaming platform in Eastern Europe with 20M+ paid subscribers. I joined as the second PM during the 8× hypergrowth, overseeing onboarding, discovery, and playback UX.

• Spearheaded discovery for the new onboarding UX, increasing the daily trials by 27%
• Developed a new content discovery framework, leading to a 17% surge in total viewing time
• Enhanced the viewing experience with crowdsourced 'skip intro' (95% coverage, 2-hour SLA) and in-frame actor face recognition
• Evaluated and interviewed 50+ candidates, and mentored two students for Yandex’s APM program

2017 — 2018
Moscow, Russia

Deloitte is a leading 'Big 4' consulting firm. I worked on internal tools, legal tech and blockchain projects.

• Led the entity management tool localisation and the voice assistant skill development
• Designed the UI of a decentralised promissory note marketplace and an IP escrow tool
• Drafted digitisation strategies for legal departments of a gas company and an internet provider

Education

2018 — 2018
2014 — 2018

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