# Karim Dovzhenko

Karim Dovzhenko is a remote worker on Himalayas, Lead Product Designer at Playcarry LTD, based in Spain.

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

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Product Designer
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Spain |
| Authorized to work in | Spain, Ukraine |
| Salary expectations | 2k-4k EUR |
| Job categories | Product Designer, UI UX Designer, Product Designer, UX Researcher, Design System Specialist, Visual Designer, Creative Director, UI Designer, UX Designer |
| Skills | Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Framer, Relume, Canva, Design Systems, User Research, GA4, Hotjar, Google Ads, Meta Business Suite, ChatGpt, Midjourney, DALL·E, Notion, Trello, Visual Design, Responsive Design, A B Testing, Conversion Rate Optimization, Information Architecture, OBS Studio, Google Workspace |
| Website | https://bento.me/calmkara |
| Portfolio | https://bento.me/calmkara |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm seeking a product-team role that values research, creativity, systems thinking, and offers opportunities to lead design system work and improve user conversion through data-driven design.
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## About

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I am a Product designer with 7+ years of experience building usable, scalable interfaces and design systems for web and mobile. I drive product improvements through research and analytics, having increased conversions, reduced bounce rates, and sped up development with reusable UI kits.

I've led small teams and freelance projects across Europe and CIS, launched high-reach digital campaigns, and created hundreds of creatives and components using Figma, Adobe, Framer and AI tools. I'm seeking a product-team role that values research, creativity, and systems thinking.
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## Experience

### Lead Product Designer (current)

Playcarry LTD. Oct 2023 - Present

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Built a scalable Figma design system and standardized 400+ components, reducing design-to-dev handoff time by ~30% and eliminating UI inconsistencies; redesigned navigation and search to cut average time-to-purchase by 18 seconds while leading native iOS design.
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Skills: Cross-Functional-Collaboration, Design-Systems, Figma, Design-Tokens, UX-Research, iOS-HIG, Interaction-Design, Prototyping

### Freelance Product Designer (current)

Freelance. Jun 2017 - Present

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Delivered UX/UI design solutions for 30+ clients across Europe and CIS, producing user flows, wireframes, prototypes and developer-ready assets while using analytics (GA4, Hotjar) to iterate on product designs.
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Skills: UX-Design, UI-Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, GA4, Hotjar, Design-Tokens, Developer-Handoff, Client-Management

### Product / Visual Designer

La Vibria Intercultural. Jun 2022 - Jun 2023

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Designed the web platform UI and cohesive visual identity, produced packaging and social assets, and managed the "Intercultural Meetings" project including promotional materials to strengthen brand awareness.
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Skills: UI-Design, Visual-Identity, Packaging-Design, Art-Direction, Promotional-Design, Figma, Adobe-Creative-Suite, Event-Materials

### UX / Conversion Designer

Technofy. Sep 2021 - Jan 2022

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Designed ad creatives and landing pages, executed A/B tests reaching 450,000+ users and streamlined processes with standardized checklists that reduced delivery turnaround by 25%; redesigned onboarding funnel to accelerate deal closure and upsell.
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Skills: Documentation, Conversion-Rate-Optimization, A-B-Testing, Landing-Page-Design, Creative-Design, User-Funnels, Analytics, Cross-functional-Coordination

### Senior Visual Designer

LCG Alexey Dovzhenko. Jan 2019 - Dec 2021

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Produced 100+ ad creatives and standardized a brand design system, driving marketing that generated 18M+ UAH (~$500k) over three years and improving CTR by 3–7% via iterative A/B testing.
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Skills: Advertising-Design, A-B-Testing, Creative-Production, Performance-Marketing, Visual-Standards, Adobe-Creative-Suite, Analytics, Brand-System

## Education

### Uprock

UX/UI Designer, UX/UI Design. 2025 - 2025

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Completed a UX/UI Designer program focusing on complex product logic, visual hierarchy, and data-driven design solutions for SaaS and web interfaces.
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### Professium - Prjctr

UI/UX Design, UI/UX Design. 2023 - 2024

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Completed UI/UX Design coursework covering UX research (CJM, JTBD), design systems (tokens, variables), and designing complex web and mobile interfaces for SaaS and dashboards.
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### Hillel IT School

Marketing & Advertising, Marketing & Advertising. 2023 - 2023

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Studied Marketing & Advertising with emphasis on digital strategy, market research, unit economics, user acquisition (SEO/PPC), and web analytics (GA4).
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### IT Academy STEP

Graphic Design, Graphic Design. 2020 - 2023

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Trained in Graphic Design covering visual communication, color theory, typography, Adobe Creative Suite, and brand identity creation.
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## Tech stack

- Google Tag Manager
- Gmail
- Adobe Fonts
- Google Analytics
- Figma
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- Slack
- HTML5
- CSS 3
- Trello
- OBS Studio
- Adobe Illustrator
- Canva
- Hotjar
- Google Ads
- Midjourney
- Relume
- Task

To contact Karim, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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