# Łukasz Szadkowski

Łukasz Szadkowski is a remote worker on Himalayas, Lead Product Designer, AI Builder & Product Manager at Prerender.io, based in Spain.

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

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Product Manager and Designer at Prerender.io, shipping a Figma-to-production design system and AI-powered prototypes that speed usability testing.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Open to opportunities |
| Location | Spain |
| Authorized to work in | Spain |
| Salary expectations | 80k+ EUR |
| Job categories | Lead UX Designer, Product Designer, UX Lead, Lead UX Designer, AI Builder, Product Manager |
| Skills | Product Management, Product Design, UX Design, AI Native Product Development, Design Systems, UX Research, Usability Testing, Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, Product Backlog, Hypothesis Driven Development, A B Testing, Product Analytics, Success metrics, HEART metrics |
| Website | https://lucas.userexpired.com |
| Portfolio | https://lucas.userexpired.com |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/lukaszszadkowski |

## About

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At Prerender.io, I run the design system as a product, owning its scope, backlog, and success metrics. I ship it from Figma to production with Claude Code and Figma MCP, and developers now build from the prototype repository instead of relying on classic handoffs.

I also built AI-powered interactive prototypes that cut usability-testing preparation from days to hours. At Logivity AB / Volvo Group, I led UX research and design across five connected services, and designed AI features across the prediction, analysis, and reaction loop.

At XTB Online Trading, I led UX for investment and trading products across web, Android, and iOS. For ETF Investment Plans, I led a five-person squad and turned a no-advice constraint into objective ETF ranking signals.

I took FixMix from an Executive MBA project to market, using customer research, a field pilot, and A/B tests to guide three data-led pivots. I bring product decisions and hands-on UX together, and evaluate AI output critically while keeping judgment calls human.
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## Experience

### Lead Product Designer, AI Builder & Product Manager (current)

Prerender.io. Jan 2026 - Present

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Run the design system as a product, owning scope, backlog and success metrics, and ship it from Figma to production with Claude Code and Figma MCP. Built AI-powered interactive prototypes that cut usability-testing preparation from days to hours.
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Skills: Design-Systems, Figma, Claude-Code, Figma-MCP, Ant-Design, Chart.Js, WCAG-2.2, Prototyping, Product-Management, Design-Sprints

### Solo UX Lead (current)

Regulated financial institution. Jan 2026 - Present

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Designed and built an 8-screen operations back office with an AI builder, including case handling, audit trail, analytics, roles and permissions, with full RTL, light and dark themes, responsive, and WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.
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Skills: UX-Design, AI, Figma, WCAG-2.2, RTL, Responsive-Design, Prototyping

### Product Design Consultant (current)

[Oracle Consulting](https://himalayas.app/companies/oracle). Jan 2025 - Present

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Built the brand identity for Oracle AION (AI agent framework) and developed pre-sales prototypes. Developing EMPOWERED, an AI delivery framework for UX and product teams with lightweight AI adoption and maturity KPIs.
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Skills: AI, Brand-Identity, Prototyping, UX-Strategy, Product-Management

### Product Design Lead & AI Builder (current)

Viafervida S.L.. Jun 2021 - Present

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Own consultancy embedded in client product teams as lead product designer or UX lead, and at Prerender.io also as product manager, across B2B SaaS, logistics, fintech and AI.
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Skills: Product-Management, UX-Design, AI, Figma, Claude-Code, Figma-MCP, Design-Systems, WCAG-2.2, Design-Sprints, Prototyping

### UX Lead

4Vation. Jan 2025 - Dec 2025

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Led research and redesign of two legacy transport management products (Optilo for Carriers, Optilo Track & Trace). Multi-identifier search removed manual cross-referencing, reducing context-switching and lookups from minutes to seconds.
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Skills: UX-Research, UX-Design, Redesign, Information-Architecture

### UX Lead & AI Builder

Logivity AB / Volvo Group. Jan 2022 - Dec 2025

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Led UX research and design across a portfolio of 5 connected services on a B2B SaaS transport management platform that reached 1,000,000+ shipments. Designed AI features across the prediction, analysis and reaction loop, and built the Figma design system library with the React front-end team.
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Skills: UX-Research, UX-Design, AI, Figma, Figma-Make, Lovable, Design-Systems, WCAG-2.1-AA, React

### UX Lead

Express.pl. Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

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Redesigned the consumer mobile booking journey for airport-arriving tourists, including a 5-step flow with a running price total, an insurance comparison matrix and localised payments, and defined HEART launch metrics.
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Skills: UX-Design, Mobile-Design, HEART-metrics, User-Research

### UX Lead

merXu. Jan 2022 - Dec 2023

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Usage observation and community interviews reframed the buyer–seller chat brief from 'add AI' to 'add structure', delivering user-driven AI prompts, in-chat order assembly and translation that kept deals on-platform.
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Skills: UX-Research, UX-Design, AI, User-Interviews, Product-Strategy

### Head of UX

[XTB Online Trading](https://himalayas.app/companies/xtb). Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

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Led UX for data-heavy investment and trading products (B2C and B2B) across web, Android and iOS, sustaining a 4.8 App Store rating. Grew the cross-functional UX/UI/BI team from 7 to 14 within a 200-person IT organisation.
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Skills: UX-Leadership, Product-Design, Mobile-Design, Web-Design, Team-Management, Stakeholder-Management

### Founder, CEO & CTO

FixMix. Jan 2020 - May 2022

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Took an Executive MBA project to market: a B2B2C repair service for 412 B2C clients plus corporate partners. Owned product, design and the build (WordPress, WooCommerce, Stripe, InPost and BaseLinker with custom integrations) and secured EU pre-seed funding.
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Skills: Product-Management, entrepreneurship, WordPress, WooCommerce, Stripe, InPost, BaseLinker, A-B-Testing, User-Research

### UX Team Leader

[Allegro](https://himalayas.app/companies/allegro). Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

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Led a 5-person employee and customer experience (EX & CX) team and introduced the Ant Design system to legacy back-office tools, significantly improving employee satisfaction.
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Skills: UX-Leadership, Design-Systems, Ant-Design, Employee-Experience, Customer-Experience

### Product Design Lead

[Oracle Consulting](https://himalayas.app/companies/oracle). Oct 2018 - May 2021

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Created the F.I.T. and F.I.V.E. UX discovery frameworks, which helped win multiple enterprise transformation deals. Led experience design for Athens International Airport employee service apps and UX discovery for the Volvo–Oracle transport management collaboration, which evolved into Logivity.
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Skills: UX-Discovery, UX-Strategy, Enterprise-Design, Framework-Development

### Co-founder, CEO & CTO

KDB.market. Mar 2019 - Feb 2021

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Co-founded an EU-funded C2C marketplace for children's products and ran the product lifecycle from user research and four prototype iterations focused on trust and usability to go-to-market.
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Skills: Product-Management, entrepreneurship, User-Research, Prototyping, Go-To-Market

### Product Design Manager

SEQR/Glase. Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

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Directed end-to-end design of a consumer mobile payment solution and delivered the SEQR-to-Glase rebrand, payment-app refresh and design system in 8 weeks.
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Skills: Product-Design, Mobile-Payments, Rebranding, Design-Systems

### UX Lead

[Roche](https://himalayas.app/companies/roche). Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

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Led UX for data-heavy clinical trial dashboards with 3 senior UX subcontractors. Pivoted the channel to an Alexa voice skill when mobile patterns did not fit the patient group, validated through usability testing, and applied HEART metrics.
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Skills: UX-Design, Clinical-Trials, Voice-Design, Usability-Testing, HEART-metrics

### UX Manager

Bank Millennium. Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

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Managed a 7-person UX/UI team across the bank's digital product portfolio and set UX strategy through cross-industry research, analytics and co-creation workshops.
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Skills: UX-Management, UX-Strategy, Team-Leadership, Analytics, Workshops

### UX Lead

SEQR. Jul 2015 - Sep 2016

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Led a 3-person team on one of the first user-friendly contactless (NFC) mobile payment experiences in Poland, with field tests in grocery stores and defined launch KPIs. Won the Best Customer Centric Excellence Award, Florin Awards Europe 2016.
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Skills: UX-Design, Mobile-Payments, NFC, Field-Testing, KPI-Definition

### Senior UX Consultant

[Atos](https://himalayas.app/companies/atos). Oct 2010 - Jun 2015

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Led a 4-person design team across 10+ projects for banking and telecom clients (Bank Millennium, Orange Group) and founded and ran a UX internship programme that grew 4 junior designers to mid-level.
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Skills: UX-Consulting, Team-Leadership, Banking, Telecommunications, Internship-Programme

## Education

### Interaction Design Foundation

AI for Designers, Design

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Completed the AI for Designers course in 2025.
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### Nielsen Norman Group

Practical AI for UX Professionals, UX

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Completed the Practical AI for UX Professionals course in 2025.
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### Nielsen Norman Group

Service Blueprinting, UX

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Completed the Service Blueprinting course in 2024.
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### Nielsen Norman Group

Lean UX and Agile, UX

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Completed the Lean UX and Agile course in 2024.
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### Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I), Scrum

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Earned the Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification in 2021.
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### Warsaw University of Technology Business School

Executive MBA, Business Administration

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Executive MBA program completed in 2020.
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### Design Thinking Institute

Design Thinking Moderator, Design Thinking

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Completed the Design Thinking Moderator certification in 2017.
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### APMG International

AgilePM Foundation, Project Management

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Earned the AgilePM Foundation certification in 2015.
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### Lodz University of Technology

Postgraduate Studies, Project Management

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Postgraduate studies in Project Management completed in 2012.
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### APMG International

PRINCE2 Foundation, Project Management

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Earned the PRINCE2 Foundation certification in 2012.
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### Lodz University of Technology

M.Sc., Telecommunications and Computer Science

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M.Sc. in Telecommunications and Computer Science completed in 2010.
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## Tech stack

- Chart.js
- WooCommerce
- Figma
- Useberry
- Jira
- Ant Design
- React
- Stripe
- Confluence
- Notion
- WordPress
- Miro
- Lovable
- Claude Code

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