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Nikita Shchabelskyi
UI/UX Designer | Middle Plus | 4 Plus Years Experience
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Telegram: @shchabelskyi_n | Location: Remote | Odesa, Ukraine / Bucharest, Romania

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior-level UI/UX Designer with 4 plus years of commercial experience shipping ecommerce platforms, SaaS products,
admin panels, and brand identities. Skilled in the full product lifecycle: user research, wireframing, prototyping, usability
testing, interaction design, and Figma-based handoff to engineering. Strong understanding of UX principles, conversion
optimization, and design systems with atomic components. Experienced leading client facing engagements and working
in cross functional international remote teams. Open to remote full-time or part-time roles.

CORE SKILLS AND TOOLS
UI/UX Tools: Figma (design delivery and interactive prototypes), Adobe XD, Sketch, InVision, ProtoPie
Research Methods: User Interviews, Quantitative Research, Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Customer Journey Mapping,
User Flow, Product Analytics, Conversion Optimization
Design Systems: Design Systems, Atomic Components, Variables, Component Libraries, Material Design, UIKit, Human
Interface Guidelines
Visual and Brand: Typography, Branding, Identity, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Web and CMS: Webflow, Elementor WordPress, Tilda, Shopify, OpenCart, HTML, CSS, E-commerce UX, Admin Panel
Design, CRM interfaces
Collaboration: Jira, Notion, Confluence, Trello, Kanban, Scrum
Languages: English: Advanced | Ukrainian: Fluent | Romanian: Intermediate

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior UI/UX Designer | Verticality (ex-SEO Monster)
Aug 2025 - Present (8 months) | Remote | Digital Agency
- Led a full company rebrand from SEO Monster to Verticality, expanding the agency service offering to include
branding, identity, ecommerce website development, and redesign, resulting in 8 new client projects onboarded
within 8 months.
- Rebranding positioned the agency to secure a retainer contract with a Canadian fintech company, covering landing
page creation, interface work, social media assets, and ongoing SEO.
- Cut project delivery time from 4 months to 2 to 4 weeks by introducing standardized workflows, templates, and clear
handoff protocols across all departments.
- Built end to end client engagement processes covering discovery calls, briefing, iterative feedback cycles, final
delivery, and post launch support.
- Lead product sales calls with clients, presenting concepts, gathering briefs, handling revisions, and proposing new
solutions.
- Tools used: Figma, Webflow, Elementor WordPress, OpenCart, Adobe Creative Cloud.

Founder and Lead Product Designer | Axon Global
Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months) | Remote | Bucharest, Romania
- Established and legally registered a creative studio as a limited liability company in Romania, handling company
formation, contracts, and financial operations independently.
- Grew the studio to 20,000 USD in annual revenue within the first year, completing 5 client projects across SaaS,
Web3, ecommerce, branding, and multipage website development.
 - Delivered a complex flagship project: a custom CRM platform with full admin panel interface, tariff plan builder,
Stripe payment integration, and a multipage marketing website, shipped end to end from UX research and user flows
through interactive prototypes to developer handoff.
- Built a custom lead generation tool (scraper with analytics dashboard and interface) as an internal alternative to
Apollo.io, lowering the cost of outbound sales.
- Managed a team of 3 people across active projects; currently overseeing 2 ongoing engagements in technical support
and development.
- Responsible for all external positioning: brand identity, content strategy, and outreach for the Romanian market.

UX Researcher | Teleperformance Romania
Nov 2024 - Sep 2025 (11 months) | Remote | Global enterprise, 490,000 employees worldwide
- Contributed as part of a 35 person cross functional on site team to research and validate an internal employee
growth platform at enterprise scale.
- Ran quantitative research, product analytics, and A/B testing to validate product hypotheses for an employee
learning, skills development, and career progression system, focused on usability and interaction design
improvements.
- Mapped end to end user flows covering course completion, skills certification, internal performance rankings, and
progression tracking.
- Engineered gamification mechanics and motivation frameworks to increase employee platform engagement and
retention, aligning interface decisions with HR and Finance KPIs through cross departmental collaboration.
- Platform targeted Teleperformance's European workforce segment across multiple countries.

Founder and Product Designer | Shogun Clothes
Dec 2021 - Jul 2024 (2 years 8 months) | Remote
- Launched a streetwear label blending Edo period Japanese aesthetics with contemporary style, responsible for all
product, packaging, and brand identity creation.
- Planned and carried out a multichannel marketing strategy, managing social media presence, paid campaigns, and
community growth.
- Handled all business operations: logistics, legal, financial management, and ecommerce setup.

Freelance Graphic Designer | Upwork, Fiverr, Kwork
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022 (1 year 11 months) | Remote
- Completed six to seven commercial projects including social media creatives, banners, promotional materials, and
logo work, establishing a client facing commercial foundation.
- Primary tools across all 7 projects: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, Sketch, delivering work for 5
international clients.

EDUCATION

Odesa National Polytechnic University
Bachelor's Degree in Entrepreneurship and Business | 2021 - 2025 | Odesa, Ukraine

CERTIFICATIONS AND COURSES
Google UX Design Certificate | Google, 2022
Shift Nudge: Interface Design Course | Matt D. Smith, 2022, 5 months
Computer Graphics and Design | Academy SHAG, 2013 - 2015