# Alex Ionescu

Alex Ionescu is a remote worker on Himalayas, Lead Product Designer at Transcenda, based in Romania.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@alexionescu1

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Lead Product Designer at Transcenda who defined a PLM navigation redesign and delivered reusable patterns across the product.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Romania |
| Authorized to work in | Romania |
| Salary expectations | 80k+ EUR |
| Job categories | Product Designer |
| Skills | Product Design, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Information Architecture, Design Systems, Design System Governance, Interaction Design, User Research, Data Visualization, UX Writing, Accessibility, Interview Moderation, Card Sorting, Usability Testing, Navigation Audits |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/alex-ionescu89 |

## About

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At Transcenda, I lead designers across product areas and guide the design system team for a product lifecycle management platform. I defined the direction for a navigation redesign, and after demos, 78% of small and medium-sized business customers wanted to switch.

At 3Pillar Global, I defined the architecture for an Informa Markets design system serving 80+ branded websites, with 600+ tokenized components that reduced branded-site build time from months to days. I also introduced an AI-native design workflow adopted by the team and built an internal tool for creating AI-generated demos that match the real product.
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## Experience

### Lead Product Designer (current)

Transcenda. Jan 2024 - Present

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Leads designers across product areas and guides the design system team, aligning reusable patterns and components across a PLM platform. Partnered with product and engineering leaders to shape product direction and defined a navigation redesign that 78% of SMB customers wanted to adopt.
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Skills: Design-Leadership, Design-Systems, Figma, Tokens-Studio, Navigation-Design, User-Research, Product-Strategy, Stakeholder-Management

### Senior Product Designer

Transcenda. Jan 2023 - Dec 2024

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Conducted navigation research and developed the first iteration of a new information architecture for a PLM platform, progressing from individual contributor to Lead Product Designer.
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Skills: User-Research, Information-Architecture, Card-Sorting, Navigation-Audits, Interview-Moderation

### Senior UX/UI Designer

[3Pillar Global](https://himalayas.app/companies/3pillar-global-inc). Jan 2021 - Dec 2023

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Designed software for retail analytics and media clients, including NielsenIQ, Informa, and Dye & Durham. Defined the architecture for an Informa Markets design system serving 80+ branded websites, delivering 600+ tokenized components and reducing build time from months to days.
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Skills: UX-Design, UI-Design, Design-Systems, Figma, Tokens-Studio, Data-Visualization, Retail-Analytics, Media

### Product Designer

Marsilian Technologies. Jan 2019 - Dec 2021

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Designed a medical residency exam platform used by 53,000 students and a 3D anatomy platform used by 44,000 people, taking both products from concept to end-to-end experiences. Designed internal marketing tooling that reduced marketing costs by 30%.
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Skills: Product-Design, UX-Design, UI-Design, Healthcare-Platforms, 3D-Anatomy, Marketing-Tools

### Product Designer

Evendo. Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

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Reworked the end-to-end experience of an events product for business and consumer customers, including automated email flows.
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Skills: Product-Design, UX-Design, UI-Design, Events, Email-Flows

### Senior QA Engineer

Zed Media. Jan 2015 - Dec 2017

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Worked in software quality assurance, developing a focus on edge cases and system behavior that informs subsequent product design work.
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Skills: Quality-Assurance, Software-Testing, Edge-Cases, System-Behavior

## Tech stack

- Tailwind CSS
- Figma
- React
- Git

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