Aleksandra Irzykowska
Lead Product Designer  |  0→1 Products • Design Systems • AI-Powered Experiences
Overview
I'm a product designer with 12+ years of experience and a simple instinct: map the full system before touching the UI. For me, that means understanding user and business needs, the logic, the constraints, and the edge cases first — then designing.
I've spent my career working across fintech, healthcare, travel, e-commerce, and B2B SaaS — leading 0→1 products, building design systems from scratch, and designing AI-powered experiences that balance automation with clarity and user trust. I work best in cross-functional teams where design, product, and engineering move together.
Authorized to work in both the US and EU, I've collaborated with distributed teams across time zones and worked comfortably in fast-moving, async environments. Currently open to lead and senior product design roles where design has a real seat at the table.
Open to: remote, full-time, contract roles.
CORE STRENGThS
End-to-end 0→1 product development & scaled design
Web & native mobile (iOS & Android)
Design systems & component libraries (tokens, theming, scalability)
AI-powered product & UX design
Complex workflows & data-dense interfaces
UX strategy & product thinking
Cross-functional leadership (PM, Eng, Exec)
Rapid iteration & execution under tight timelines
Experience
Lead Product Designer | Freelance
Remote / 01.2022 – Present
• Led 0→1 product design for startups across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS — from discovery through delivery.
• Built a tokenized design system from scratch for Cloudticity, unifying three product silos and accelerating dev cycles.
• Translated complex technical and regulatory requirements into intuitive, scalable experiences.
• Partnered with founders, PMs, and engineering to align design strategy with business goals.
Selected clients: Cloudticity — 0→1 healthcare IT platform & design system (US); Niseus Group (Spain); Skopa (LatAm); Lambda (US).
Lead Product Designer | Lettuce Financial (via A.Team)
Remote / 07.2025 – 12.2025
• Designed contextual AI experiences around Lettuce Head, defining proactive trigger logic and task-relevant data surfacing.
• Led end-to-end design of the Year-End Financial Review — a complex tax workflow — from kickoff to production in under one month.
• Shipped Income & Expense Estimator and healthcare deduction flows, improving annual tax estimate accuracy for self-employed users.
• Partnered with PM, engineering, and stakeholders to align on scope, edge cases, and delivery under tight timelines.
Senior Product Designer / Design Manager | Capital One
Remote / 10.2021 – 03.2023
• Led 0→1 design of SmartPay, a new B2B payments product simplifying complex financial workflows for SMBs.
• Led org-wide OMNI design system consolidation, eliminating duplicate components and standardizing UX patterns across silos.
• Drove a global UI refresh, aligning visual patterns and interaction standards across Capital One’s product suite.
• Mentored junior designers, improving team capability and design execution.
Senior Product Designer | Lola Travel and Expense
Remote / 03.2020 – 10.2021
• Owned the travel and user management silo across iOS, Android, and web — end-to-end, from discovery through delivery.
• Redesigned the flight checkout flow to integrate spend management, virtual cards, and policy enforcement — pattern adopted across hotel and car rental bookings.
• Shipped core features including QuickBooks integration, MFA authentication, and self-service flight editing.
• 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 to Bolt, Pega’s open-source enterprise design system.
• Built internal platforms including Collaboration Center and Employee Portal.
• Partnered with engineering to maintain design-to-code parity across deliverables.
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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