Ivan Vasilev

Product director
London, UK 20+ years in product, design, and growth
20+ years shipping in fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce. Currently driving product-led growth at a private medical centre in London. Ex-Alfa-Bank, Scentbird (YC), Goldman Sachs, Yandex.

Experience

2024—presentLondon, UK

VisitHealth

Product Director
Marketing & Growth

Doubled YoY revenue of a private medical centre in London — ownership of product, marketing, and data.

Product vision: Built online booking system from zero — end-to-end patient flow, integrations, pricing logic, and analytics powering acquisition growth

Market research and go to market: Ran a series of experiments (A/B forms, landing pages, ad restructuring) — +40% leads, +20–30% conversion lift, flat budget

Product roadmap ownership: Prioritised across marketing, clinical ops, and tech. Aligned doctors, admin team, and engineering around shared goals

Product development & launch: Shipped MVP → v1 booking system; built attribution pipeline (4–5 datasets, ~80% accuracy on new customer tracking)

Built BI infrastructure — attribution tracking, funnel analytics, offline conversion measurement

End-to-end CX: Launched new service formats bridging digital and in-clinic experience — positioning, provider partnerships, full-body scan packages, integrated patient flows

AI-driven prototyping (current): Rapidly prototyping and shipping digital medical tools — scan data visualisation for patients, clinical tools for doctors, and AI integrations into care workflows

2021—2023London, UK

Presentum

Product Director
Founder

Built an ML-first hiring prep platform for product designers from ideation to validation — 1,000+ users, bootstrapped. Designed the entire product around vetting users, video processing and machine learning pipelines, pre-LLM era.

Product strategy: Identified underserved market (designers struggling with interview prep), validated with 240+ application reviews from 16 hiring managers at Intercom, Revolut, Miro, Arrival, etc.

Data-driven decision making: Core product challenge — developed peer-matching algorithm achieving 80%+ bilateral attendance rates through iterative testing; this led to consistent show-ups on a platform and consistent automated interviews

Product development & launch: Designed end-to-end CX around ML capabilities — video processing and guided interview preparation

AI/ML implementation: Built candidate search using computer vision, speech-to-text, and vector embeddings

User research: Trained ML model predicting application success with 75% accuracy, informing product features

2020—2021London, UK

Independent consultant

Product & Design Consultant

Advised startups and banks on design team scaling, design systems, and integrating design into product development.

Advised startups and banks on hiring top-tier designers and building design teams

Consulted on design system development and integrating design into product processes

2021London, UK
Moved to London— Global Talent Visa
2018—2020New York, USA

Scentbird

Sr Product Manager, Retention

Managed two product teams at a YC-alumni fragrance subscription to improve retention through ML recommendations, mobile app launch, and information architecture overhaul.

User research & data-driven decision making: Conducted on-site user interviews, card sorting, and A/B tests to validate navigation redesign. Improved task success rate by 20%

UX/UI & onboarding: Redesigned modular main page—sections automatically rearranged based on user goals. Added upcoming shipments section (reduced churn by ~1,600 users/month), reduced shipping address issues by 38%

Cross-functional collaboration: Partnered with data science team on ML-based fragrance recommender. Prepared data for model training, designed recommendation UI. Increased engagement by 50%

Customer research: Interviewed power users to understand fragrance selection behaviour. Designed large product cards showing notes, reviews, and descriptions—50% increase in products added to queue

Product roadmap ownership: Prioritised retention initiatives across recommender system, mobile app, and web experience—balancing user needs with business impact

Product development & launch: Led native iOS app from concept to launch, defining user stories and coordinating designers and engineers

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2018New York, USA
Moved to New York— Exceptional Talent Visa
2012—2018Moscow, Russia

Alfa-Bank

VP Digital Product Design
E-channels manager

Led the design team during digital transformation at a top-5 Russian bank (15M+ retail customers), helping migrate banking from branches to online channels.

Product strategy: Created and open-sourced the first industrial-grade design system in Russian fintech, setting technical and UX standards across the bank

Product development & launch: Led the team that redesigned retail and corporate online/mobile banking (payments, transfers, account management)

Cross-functional collaboration: Aligned design, engineering, and business stakeholders across retail and corporate divisions during multi-year digital transformation

People management: Built and scaled product design department from 0 to 30+ professionals, recognised as Top 5 in the Russian design community. Optimised hiring process, reducing time-to-hire from 30 to 8 days

2016—2017New York, USA

Goldman Sachs

Lead Product Designer

Designed internal mobile security platform for enterprise deployment.

Designed internal mobile security platform for enterprise deployment at the Goldman Sachs / Synchronoss joint venture. Six-month engagement covering design system strategy, UX research, and UI delivery for iOS and Android. Prepared research presentations and collaborated closely with engineering — recognised for strong cross-functional partnership.

2015Moscow, Russia

Yandex

Lead Product Designer

Designed information architecture for Yandex.Disk mobile app.

2002—2012St Petersburg, Russia

Rockbee → Molinos

Production Director
Founder

Founded and grew a design studio to 9 employees; acquired by Molinos advertising agency in 2010.