Sam Abdullaev
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Sam Abdullaev

Product Designer in Berlin 🇩🇪

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18 days ago

About

Avid learner & maker

Work Experience

2020 — Now

Managing small team of product designers across multiple client projects for over 4 years.

1] Tracking workflow efficiency and project delivery.

2] Fostering open communication and collaboration, ensuring design work is fun and that designers are heard within their teams.

3] Ensuring professional growth.

4] Building internal design community.

5] Hiring designers and building systems around recruitment.

6] Supporting designers on projects like NDA, NDA, NDA, NDA, NDA, and NDA.

7] Building trust and long-lasting relationship with clients.

2023 — 2024
United States

Clarity Value provides a SaaS platform to streamline government workflows like permitting, licensing, and HR management, making processes more efficient and secure.

I joined as a solo designer to drive product growth through multiple deals with the US government departments.

1] Led design efforts to develop a vendor management platform for major NDA city from scratch. Vendor management platform included: 10+ big NDA features.

2] Client support: delivered dozens of improvements, leading to increased user satisfaction across government departments.

3] Redesigned the citizen requests management interface for government users (the most important one). Simplified UI while increasing data access, reducing request processing times by 30%.

4] Rehauled citizen facing portal for a seamless mobile experience.

5] Created numerous design concepts to support deal closures.

6] Unified 3-year-old design system with front-end structure, aligning Figma with code (colors, typography, components).

7] Streamlined transparent design team communication, ticket management, and documentation.

2020 — 2023
Netherlands

Splash is an all-in-one consulting platform designed to streamline hiring, project management, financial tracking, and contract automation, allowing consultancies to manage talent and projects efficiently.

I joined as the founding product designer to build product from scratch. Later on I began looking into influencing product development more which led me to step into product management role that I thoroughly enjoyed.

1] Designed the whole platform from the ground up, including features such as consultants' utilisation dashboard, financials dashboard, project management tools, consultants' directory, invoice generation, timesheets, client interfaces, and more.

2] Conducted JTBD research with potential users and experts. Helped the product find the right focus at the beginning + contributed to closing several deals while doing interviews.

3] Established usability testing process and regularly iterated based on feedback.

4] Set up design system foundation with frontend team that helped us to deliver new stuff supa fast over the course of 3 years.

5] Introduced and adopted transparent internal project management processes for engineering team.

2018 — 2021
United States

Worked on the #1 journaling app.

No jokes, it was awarded by Apple and later acquired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

Participated in creating a public website, marketing materials, and journaling features itself.

2018 — 2021

Co-founded a digital agency with my friend and delivered a dozen of great projects for our clients.

I was wearing many hats at once being a sales manager, CEO, HR, project manager, and design lead.

Learned how to structure the agency business and have profits eventually (which was not true at the beginning)!

2016 — 2018

Created various award-winning projects together with a talented team of creative designers and engineers for international clients.

2015 — 2016
Frontend Developer and Designer at Kladovka

Worked on various web projects with a local digital agency on the intersection of front-end development and design.

Awards

2018

Got an opportunity to become Awwwards Young Jury and participate in selecting the best web projects on the internet.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Creating a space for Berlin product designers to grow, connect, and have fun together. We now have over 789 members and we're still growing!

Contact

Website
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