Anna Samarina
Senior Product Designer @Perk
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Product Designer @Perk
London, GB
Lead the design initiatives of a new stream of functionalities within the Expense experience, Pay Tribe· Work on the end-to-end design process, from defining problems to conducting user research, sketching, prototyping and producing final designs· Iterate on the existing product through constant research, validation, heuristic reviews and discovery, both autonomously and with the support of our UX researcher· Help the team elevate the quality of our interface, interaction patterns, and information architecture· Partner with the rest of the design team to ensure the new functionalities align with the overall product vision· Advocate for user experience best practices with different stakeholders
EDUCATION
Designlab
UX Academy, UX design
Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PSLU)
Bachelor's degree, Teacher of English Language
University of Westminster
Master of Arts (MA), TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PSLU)
Bachelor's degree, Linguist, translator of the English and Spanish Languages in the sphere of business and entrepreneur
SKILLS
ABOUT ANNA SAMARINA
Hey there! Let me tell you a bit about myself: I am a well-versed Product Designer currently working at TravelPerk, a hypergrowth corporate travel management platform, leading end-to-end Product Design initiatives in a dedicated squad, part of the Pay TribeI craft effective user experiences for our multiple user archetypes by translating customer insights and business requirements into conceptual ideas, interaction models, visual design, and UI specifications.My product design experience is in Fintech and EdTech. Before joining TravelPerk, I lead the design initiative for the Advance product at Salary Finance, a UK-based Financial wellbeing platform. My background is in Education, with 5 years working in academia and EdTech. This includes a vast variety of experiences from teaching/mentoring, faculty management, translation & linguistics, and curriculum design to Feature Ownership, and leading User Research and Discovery in EdTech.These previous experiences helped me develop a unique mix of superpowers which includes both - hard design skills: UX/UI, design research & discovery, prototyping, usability testing & UX metrics measuring QA, and visual design- soft skills: leadership and management, collaboration & teamwork, superior empathy, attention to details, storytelling, and great organisational skills.Outside of UX, I find the Flow in traveling & learning new things, shooting landscapes and lifestyles, retouching photos in Adobe Lightroom, running long distances, and connecting with friends in different parts of the world.I always look for opportunities to develop my career and take on new challenges!
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