Nikita Belov

Designer, product lead, manager, educator

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9+ years in design and 11+ years in tech. I design products, launch my own ideas, and share what I have tested in practice. I actively explore and apply AI in product workflows and teach others how to use it thoughtfully.

I focus on technically and organizationally complex products: internal platforms, automotive HMI/IVI, IoT, B2B/B2G services, automation, and AI/LLM workflows.

I work across design, product thinking, and management: leading discovery, building product logic, and shipping clear experiences in complex domains.

Experience

T-Bank

Senior Product Designer / Product Discovery

May 2026 — present

Financial services, internal platforms, process automation

I design and launch products that automate internal operations, combining product design, systems analysis, research, and early product discovery.

  • Design internal knowledge, support-automation, service, and operations-analytics tools.
  • Run discovery with product partners through interviews, synthesis, hypotheses, and MVP scenarios.
  • Turn ambiguous requests into clear journeys and product hypotheses.
  • Reduce product risk before development.

Navio

DesignOps Manager & Principal Product Designer

February 2025 — April 2026

Automotive, HMI/IVI, B2B platforms, fleet tools

Designed core HMI/IVI surfaces for production vehicles and fleet-management tools, including media, climate, overlays, cameras, an assistant, and back-office workflows.

  • Created a scalable vehicle-widget architecture.
  • Aligned design, engineering, QA, product, vendors, and internal teams.
  • Introduced early emulator, bench, and in-vehicle testing.
  • Reduced Feature Time-to-Market by 29% and Design Lead Time by 42%.
  • Reduced engineering reject rate from 25% to below 2%.

iRobot / Roomba Home

Product Design Lead

September 2022 — February 2025

IoT, mobile apps, smart home, global product

Led design and launch for Roomba Home, a global robot-management app with 1.5M+ MAU, covering onboarding, maps, cleaning, routines, and system states.

  • Introduced a map-first cleaning experience.
  • Created a framework for 500+ robot, dock, and cloud error states.
  • Introduced Design Freeze and Shift-Left QA.
  • Raised FTUE activation from 75% to 92% and SUS from 63.3 to 86.5.
  • Reduced Time-to-Mission from about 15 to 3 seconds.
  • Helped raise App Store rating to 4.8 and Google Play to 4.5.

SWTec Group / TLM

Design Lead / Design Unit Manager

March 2019 — August 2022

IT services, B2B/B2G, product design, design management

Built and led the design function, from hiring and team growth to quality, requirements, delivery, and presales.

  • Built an in-house design team from zero to nine designers.
  • Introduced levels, reviews, growth plans, and mentoring.
  • Maintained retention above 90%.
  • Introduced Shift-Left QA and Design Freeze.
  • Increased design revenue sevenfold.

MoF UAE

Designed digital services for the UAE Ministry of Finance for business users and internal ministry roles. Helped make form completion three times faster and raise NPS by 52 points; the project received a CIPS Excellence Award and a UAE Innovates Award.

Beneflo

Designed a B2B2C corporate-benefits platform: the employer dashboard, budget rules, employee mobile app, benefits catalogue, and virtual card. Helped bring the product to pilot in three months and reduce development cost by 27%.

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Sber / CVM Lab

Product Designer

October 2018 — March 2019

Financial services, B2B, SMB, recommendation products

Worked on SberAdvisor, a B2B recommendation product for small and medium-sized businesses.

  • Built a high-fidelity Axure prototype with a real-data API.
  • Ran interviews and moderated usability tests.
  • Reached retention above 65% and 12% conversion in the pilot.

Independent projects

UX/UI Designer / Digital Designer

September 2016 — September 2018

Mobile, web, desktop, and embedded interfaces

Designed digital products across mobile, web, desktop, and embedded platforms.

    Education

    Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

    2020 / Innovation management

    Nizhny Novgorod Regional College

    2015 / Information systems and software engineering

    Product Heroes

    2025 / Data-informed product and business decisions