I'm a Senior Product Designer with 8+ years of experience owning complex, compliance-driven UX across financial services, digital health, and SaaS. I lead cross-functional discovery, shape design strategy, and deliver measurable business outcomes in AML/KYC, transaction monitoring, and regulatory workflows. I have built and governed enterprise design systems, mentored designers, and translated legal and risk constraints into scalable, audit-ready experiences. My background in marketing leadership and academia informs strategic thinking, stakeholder facilitation, and a collaborative, user-centered approach to solving complex problems while meeting regulatory and commercial goals.

Andrius Busilas

I'm a Senior Product Designer with 8+ years of experience owning complex, compliance-driven UX across financial services, digital health, and SaaS. I lead cross-functional discovery, shape design strategy, and deliver measurable business outcomes in AML/KYC, transaction monitoring, and regulatory workflows. I have built and governed enterprise design systems, mentored designers, and translated legal and risk constraints into scalable, audit-ready experiences. My background in marketing leadership and academia informs strategic thinking, stakeholder facilitation, and a collaborative, user-centered approach to solving complex problems while meeting regulatory and commercial goals.

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I’m a Senior Product Designer with 8+ years of experience owning complex, compliance-driven UX across financial services, digital health, and SaaS. I lead cross-functional discovery, shape design strategy, and deliver measurable business outcomes in AML/KYC, transaction monitoring, and regulatory workflows.

I have built and governed enterprise design systems, mentored designers, and translated legal and risk constraints into scalable, audit-ready experiences. My background in marketing leadership and academia informs strategic thinking, stakeholder facilitation, and a collaborative, user-centered approach to solving complex problems while meeting regulatory and commercial goals.

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Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

Lithuanian
Fluent
English
Fluent
German
Advanced
Russian
Advanced
Polish
Intermediate

Work Experience

Senior UX Designer — Financial Crime Prevention (De Facto UX Lead) at Danske Bank
December 1, 2024 - Present
Sole UX design owner for Transaction Monitoring Investigations across Financial Crime Prevention, Financial Sanctions Management, and SAR Operations. Defined end-to-end redesigns of investigation workflows, reducing average case processing time by 28% for ~250 analysts. Led structured discovery with compliance, legal, product, and engineering to reduce cross-team ambiguity by 35%. Translated AML/KYC and EU sanctions regulations into audit-ready UX patterns, improving regulatory transparency by 30%. Simplified high-density AML interfaces to reduce cognitive load and increase investigator throughput by 22%. Drove enterprise design system governance, boosting component reuse by 40% and improving accessibility. Delivered a SUS score of 87.5 on the redesigned platform. Acted as primary UX voice in squad rituals, roadmaps, and leadership reviews.
Senior UX/UI Designer — Digital Health & Wellness at Wire Salad OÜ
March 1, 2022 - September 1, 2024
Led product design across multiple subscription-based wellness platforms (100K+ users). Owned full product design lifecycle, from discovery to shipped features. Optimised onboarding and activation journeys, increasing user conversion by 18%. Improved 30-day retention by 12% through iterative UX improvements. Established a scalable design library reducing feature delivery time by 25%. Mentored junior designers and embedded research practices in a team with no prior UX process.
Senior UX Designer (Consultant) — Global Design System at Telia
March 1, 2022 - July 1, 2023
Contributed to the Voca Global Design System supporting multi-market telecom platforms across 5+ regions. Designed reusable components adopted across 6 product teams, reducing duplicated design effort by 30%. Led accessibility and adoption workshops that increased design system usage by 45%. Strengthened contribution governance for cross-market consistency and scalability.
Senior UX Designer — Compliance & KYC Systems at Danske Bank
June 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Streamlined KYC workflows, reducing manual data-entry steps by 25%. Improved processing clarity for compliance officers, decreasing case rework by 18%. Championed earlier UX involvement in discovery, reducing post-development design changes by 20%.
Senior UX Designer — Cloud-Based SaaS at Visma Lietuva
June 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Reduced task completion time by 15–20% across business-critical accounting and HR tools. Drove usability testing cycles resulting in a 25% increase in feature usability scores. Embedded across 4 Agile teams, collaborating with 3 Product Owners to align design with roadmap priorities.
UX Designer — E-commerce & Digital Advertising at Kelkoo Group
March 1, 2016 - June 1, 2019
Redesigned merchant dashboards, improving campaign management efficiency by 15%. Delivered UI consistency and accessibility improvements across multi-market digital advertising products.

Education

MSc in Computer Science (Distinction) at University of Essex
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2025
MA in Design (Distinction) at University for the Creative Arts
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2022
Professional Diploma in UX Design at UX Design Institute
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2019
BSc in Graphic Communications Design at Vilnius College of Design
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2015
MSc in Economics at Mykolas Romeris University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2008

Qualifications

DSA™ Certified Design Sprint Master
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
Accessibility: Design for All — Interaction Design Foundation
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
Building AI / Elements of AI — University of Helsinki
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment