Aleksandra Irzykowska | Senior Product Designer
​​​​​​​UX Strategy / Enterprise & B2B SaaS / Design Systems / AI Tools
Overview
Senior Product Designer with 12+ years of experience leading 0 → 1 and scaled product design across fintech, B2B SaaS, healthcare, travel, and e-commerce. Specializing in complex, compliance-heavy workflows, design systems, and data-dense experiences across web and native mobile, improving clarity and business outcomes. Proven cross-functional partner to product, engineering, and executive teams, shipping high-impact solutions under tight timelines.
Open to: remote, full-time, contract, and fractional design roles.
CORE STRENGHTS
End-to-end product design (discovery → delivery)
Enterprise, B2B SaaS & consumer UX
Web & native mobile product design (iOS & Android)
Design systems & component libraries (tokens, theming, scalability)
0 → 1 product development
Complex workflows & data-dense interfaces
UX strategy & product thinking
Cross-functional leadership (PM, Eng, Exec)
Rapid iteration & execution under tight timelines
Cross-functional leadership & mentorship
Experience
Senior Product Designer | Freelance
Remote / 01.2022 – Present
• Lead end-to-end product design for startups and established companies across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS.
• Translate complex technical and regulatory requirements into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
• Design and scale design systems to improve consistency, speed, and cross-team efficiency.
• Partner with founders, PMs, and engineering to align design strategy with business goals.
Selected clients: Cloudticity (US), Niseus Group (Spain), Skopa (LatAm), Lambda (US).
Senior Product Designer | Lettuce Financial (via A.Team)
Remote / 07.2025 – 12.2025
• Designed AI-assisted financial tools for freelancers, balancing automation with user trust, clarity, and control.
• Led the design for the Year-End Financial Review, a critical tax-season workflow covering business activity, deductions, and edge cases.
• Shipped core features including Expense Selector and healthcare-related deduction flows, enabling accurate expense attribution.
• Collaborated closely with PM and engineering to design and ship in parallel under aggressive timelines.
Senior Product Designer / Design Manager | Capital One
Remote / 10.2021 – 03.2023
• Led UX for a new B2B payments platform, simplifying complex financial workflows for SMBs.
• Contributed to a 15% increase in adoption through improved usability and system-level design decisions.
• Accelerated delivery by refining workflows and reusable patterns across teams.
• Mentored junior designers, improving team capability and design execution.
• Enhanced the OMNI design system to scale patterns and components across multiple products.
Senior Product Designer | Lola Travel and Expense
Remote / 03.2020 – 10.2021
• Designed and shipped core product features across native mobile and web, including Spend Management, QuickBooks integration, and MFA authentication.
• Improved transactional and checkout flows across mobile and web, boosting reliability and completion rates.
• Maintained and evolved the design system to support consistent product growth.
Impact: Lola.com was acquired by Capital One in 2021.
UX/UI Designer | Pega Systems
Cambridge MA / 11.2018 – 03.2020​​​​​​​
• Designed reusable components for the open-source Bolt Design System, improving enterprise usability at scale.
• Contributed to internal platforms such as Collaboration Center and Employee Portal.
• Collaborated with engineering to ensure design-to-code parity and scalable delivery.
UX/UI Designer | TripAdvisor
Needham MA / 09.2015 – 11.2018​​​​​​​
• Redesigned native mobile and web experiences for Attractions and Restaurants products.
• Built the Attractions Cart to improve checkout usability and conversion.
• Created a B2B Activity Feed for restaurant owners, increasing engagement.
Additional Experience: Product / UX Designer | PUMA, Sperry Top-Sider
2009 – 2015
• Contributed to large-scale e-commerce experiences focusing on product discovery, checkout,
and conversion.
• Collaborated cross-functionally in high-traffic, consumer-focused retail environments.
Education
User Experience Design | General Assembly
Boston, MA / 2015
BFA in Graphic Design | Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA / 2009
SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES
Product & UX Design
End-to-end product design (discovery → delivery)
UX/UI design, interaction design, product strategy
Enterprise & B2B SaaS UX
Design systems & accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
AI-assisted design workflows & prompt engineering
Designing for LLM-driven products, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation
Conversational UI & human-AI collaboration

Research & Optimization
User Research, Usability Testing, A/B Testing
Behavioral Analytics & Data-Informed Design

Collaboration & Leadership
Cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and data partners
Mentorship & design quality leadership
Agile & Lean UX
TOOLS & PLATFORMS
Design & Prototyping
Figma (advanced prototyping, component libraries, variables, AI plugins), Sketch,
Adobe Creative Cloud

AI Tools (applied use)
ChatGPT and Claude for design ideation, UX copy exploration, flow validation,
and edge-case analysis
Galileo AI and Uizard AI for early UI exploration and rapid layout iteration

Design Systems
Figma Dev Mode, Tokens Studio, scalable component libraries
Design-to-development collaboration and documentation

Research & Analytics
Maze, Hotjar, Optimal Workshop, UserTesting
Collaboration & Delivery
Jira, Confluence, Miro, Notion, Slack

Front-end Awareness
HTML/CSS familiarity

Work Authorization: Authorized to work in the US and EU (dual citizen)
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