Max Stepanov

- People management and team building, including recruitment, growth, and leadership of the UX team; - Establishing, driving, and articulating strategies and vision; - Developing and maintaining design systems and style guides; - Communication across different teams; - Lead the UX design process and perform UX audits and evaluations; - Mentorship and guidance of the UX personnel; - Work on business and departmental culture; - Advocating for the design team.

- Work with Product, Marketing and UX strategies - Management across project workstreams - Prioritisation and facilitation - Work with users, dev team, product, customer experience and marketing - Evaluation, analysis and optimization - Work with the design team, cooperation between different roles (researcher, writer, tester and designer) - Lead all aspects of the user experience design process - Collaboration with product management and product development over UX requirements and delivery

Worked with enterprise-level software products and solutions for telecommunications: - Lead user research and testing initiatives; - Identify and evaluate potential opportunities to improve the products; - Envision and develop end-to-end user experience for multiple platforms (web, desktop, and mobile); - Work with product managers, engineers, and other parties; - Manage and mentor teams of junior UX designers; - Act as a leader in the creative process.

Worked with different companies to adapt their products to new markets: - Lead and support projects life cycle studies, including workshops, user and stakeholder interviews, analytics, audits, and benchmarking; - Create user stories, personas, and storyboards, information architecture; - User research and usability testing; - Collaborate with the design team to build out design processes, tools, and culture; - Define reporting and measurement metrics.

Worked with enterprise solutions for a car dealership and e-commerce systems: - User research and verification; - Iterative design and work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders; - Cooperation with engineers and product managers - Creation of concepts and prototypes; - Improve designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback; - Coordination with designers to ensure communication and efficiency during the design phase; - Modify and revise existing designs to meet user expectations.

C/C++ programming

IOS programming (Swift programming language), React Native programming

Java programming, Web development (HTML, CSS, Java Script)