About
Ilya Oreshnikov
Product designer with 12+ years of experience building digital products — from startups to large corporations, from mobile apps to complex B2B platforms. More than five of those years in a parallel role as a product manager: owning the backlog, the development team, and the product outcome. That's why I understand products from the inside and the outside at once.
I specialize in complex B2B systems where there are no ready answers: a new domain, vague requirements, conflicting stakeholder interests. More than once I've joined as the only designer and built processes, research, and design systems from scratch — turning design from a service function into a tool that drives business metrics. I validate decisions through research: over a hundred in-depth user interviews and dozens of usability tests behind me.
I'm at my best at the intersection of design and product management — where a solution needs not only to be designed, but justified, prioritized, and shipped. This combination lets me speak the same language with engineers, managers, and C-level.
Experience
2025 — 2026
IEK GROUP · Product Designer / Product Manager
Industrial automation. Designed a unified HMI line for four classes of industrial systems — from a web dashboard to a monochrome 2×16-character display — and acted as the single point of contact between the client and a 100+ engineer contractor.
2021 — 2025
SODIS LAB · Lead Product Designer / Product Manager
ConTech B2B SaaS. Joined as the only designer, grew into a lead: built design processes, research culture, and a design system from scratch.
2018 — 2020
Docspro · Lead Product Designer / Product Manager
LegalTech B2B SaaS. Grew from sole designer into full product ownership: research, strategy, and a distributed team of 11. Designed the linked-templates mechanic that cut contract approval time from 7 days to 1.
2017 — 2018
Renaissance Insurance Group · Head of Digital Product Design
InsurTech. Redesigned the travel insurance service (+30% conversion), initiated and shipped the company's first design system, and worked alongside a Boston Consulting Group team on the Renaissance Life mobile app.
2016
BARL · Product Designer
Satellite communications & GIS. Redesigned a legacy remote-sensing system, cutting it from 7 modules to 3, and designed a geoinformation platform from scratch.
2012 — 2016
Various Companies · UX/UI Designer
A series of product projects: AR navigation prototype and the Element app at WayRay (shown at CES 2018), an investment app MVP that helped raise $1M from Mail.ru, and the Open Government platform for public discussion of legislative initiatives.
2012
AIC · UX/UI Designer
Digital agency. Designed websites and mobile apps for banks and tech startups; the Zingaya website took 1st place in Runet Rating (2012).
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