OLEKSII IVASHENTSEV

Award-winning product designer helping build exceptional and human-friendly fintech products

Based in New York

Years

2025 - Present

Role

Senior Product Designer

Metrics

Buy +42%

Sell +59%

Convert +39%

Platforms

iOS

Android

Web

Scope

  • As Senior Product Designer on Gemini's Core Experience team, I redesigned the trading platform's Home Page in a 3-month sprint ahead of the Nasdaq IPO.

  • Cut 8 competing actions to 2 core paths. Merged Home and Portfolio into a single surface. Portfolio tab navigation dropped 87% — users stopped needing to switch screens to trade.

Years

2025 - Present

Role

Senior Product Designer

Metrics

Buy +42%

Sell +59%

Convert +39%

Platforms

iOS

Android

Web

Scope

  • As Senior Product Designer on Gemini's Core Experience team, I redesigned the trading platform's Home Page in a 3-month sprint ahead of the Nasdaq IPO.

  • Cut 8 competing actions to 2 core paths. Merged Home and Portfolio into a single surface. Portfolio tab navigation dropped 87% — users stopped needing to switch screens to trade.

Years

2018 - 2023

Role

Lead Product Designer

Metrics

Sign up +25%

MAU +22%

Users +700K

Platforms

iOS

Android

Web

Scope

Red Dot Award + London Design Award (financial app category). Led a full redesign across all platforms — order flow conversion +21%, drop-off −36%, registration bounce −42% with social login, KYC cost per user −11%.

Years

2020 - 2022

Role

Lead Product Designer

Metrics

0→1

-27% infra costs

Users +300K

Platforms

iOS

Android

Scope

  • First design hire at an early-stage fintech. Collaborated with the PM to define product-market fit and developed the MVP concept, securing over $31M in first-stage funding from Sequoia, Falcon Edge and Hummingbird.

  • Contributed to a successful business model pivot, driving user growth to over 300,000.

Years

2018 - 2019

Role

Senior Product Designer

Metrics

Consumer research

MVP shipped

Platforms

iOS

Android

Scope

Designed Yelo from 0→1, leading consumer research and defining PMF with the founding team. Reached Top 5 in Azerbaijan at launch.

Years

2017 - 2018

Role

Product Designer

Metrics

KYC +11%

3M+ users

Platforms

iOS

Android

Scope

Redesigned the Wirex mobile app for 3M+ users — improved KYC completion by 11%, in collaboration with Pentagram on the brand system.

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