Liliia Orlenko
Senior / Lead Product Designer & Design Engineer

A hands-on design leader across product design, design leadership, and frontend implementation, building the design culture and systems teams run without me.

liliia.orlenko@gmail.com

Complexity, made to feel simple.

I'm an AI-native design engineer. Years in fintech and SaaS taught me to make feature-rich products feel calm and obvious. Working AI-native now lets me dive deeper into product strategy and system design.

Stack
Claude Claude Code Cursor GitHub Figma Adobe Creative Suite Maze Miro Dovetail Hotjar
Open to work
Senior & Lead roles bridging frontend and PM
Interested in pivoting into project management
Available immediately · Stockholm, onsite or hybrid
Remote across the EU & US
Targeting
Healthtech Climate tech Civic tech Lifestyle & everyday tools Complex system products
Interesting project? Contact me ↗
2025 — 2026View case ↗
EARN'M
Design Leadership · AI Automation
Led design across the product and set up AI-assisted design work across marketing, business, and engineering, backed by a shared system and Storybook.
3 Teams running on AI-assisted design functions: marketing, business, engineering
2 Design systems built, plus a shared Storybook
2021 — 2024View case ↗
Safe.Global
Senior Product Designer · Berlin (Hybrid)
A multi-signature wallet holding billions in digital assets. I made a complex, security-critical product feel manageable for very different kinds of users.
+9% Onboarding completion after lightweight UX test
+13% Executed transactions post-flow redesign
1,000+ Design system Figma copies within month one
2019 — 2021View case ↗
McMakler
Product Designer · Berlin · Full-time
A research-led redesign of the internal tools a German real-estate team used daily, plus a stronger design and research culture along the way.
18→32% User satisfaction across the platform
75% First-round design approval rate
Highlights
01
Safe design system, 1,000+ Figma copies in month one
Built for external contributors who would never talk to me
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Challenged business decisions for better adoption
EARN'M. Pushed on subscription pricing and other calls that shape whether people stick with the product.
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Proposed a research sprint that was not in the McMakler brief
One week. 75% first-round approval followed.
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Spread a design culture the team could run without me
EARN'M. Set the standards, mentored the team, and updated how the company built.
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Alla was sunset three months after launch
McMakler. Low adoption is a research problem. I document that too.
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Approach
Systems over screens
A system's real job is to help teams work together. It gives marketing, business, and engineering a shared way to build with design instead of each team going its own way.
Research before production
The most useful things I learn come from being in the room while someone does their job, not from asking them to describe it afterward.
Accountable for outcomes
I write down what worked and what didn't. Recording the failures matters as much as the wins, because that's how a team learns and stops repeating the same mistakes.
AI-augmented, not AI-replaced
Claude Code, Cursor, and Figma Make are part of my daily work. They shift the balance between thinking and production, without replacing the thinking.