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I'm Maria Shor, a Senior Product Designer with 5 years in startups. I fix onboarding that doesn't convert, ship infrastructure that doesn't exist yet, and build systems that hold together when everything else is moving. I work end-to-end—from research to production. I'm comfortable being solo when needed and leading teams when required.…

Maria Shor

Product Designer, UX Designer, UI Designer, +2

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I'm Maria Shor, a Senior Product Designer with 5 years in startups. I fix onboarding that doesn't convert, ship infrastructure that doesn't exist yet, and build systems that hold together when everything else is moving. I work end-to-end—from research to production. I'm comfortable being solo when needed and leading teams when required.…

Available to hire

I’m Maria Shor, a Senior Product Designer with 5 years in startups. I fix onboarding that doesn’t convert, ship infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet, and build systems that hold together when everything else is moving.

I work end-to-end—from research to production. I’m comfortable being solo when needed and leading teams when required.

Skills

Product Design

Experience Level

Product Design

Expert

Intermediate

Language

English

Advanced

Russian

Fluent

Work Experience

Head of Design at Valvur AI

January 1, 2025 - Present

Led design for Valvur AI ecosystem; built, coded and shipped a full internal platform solo in 3 weeks, replacing 5 separate tools with one unified product. Reduced design-to-development cycle by 80% by implementing a code-first AI pipeline with Claude Code and MCP integration. Created an AI-enforced design system with components and rules that prevent incorrect implementations. Unified brand identity across 3-product ecosystem (kids app, parental portal, school platform) and delivered full rebrand including mascot system and content pipeline. Shipped 3 products for different audiences simultaneously.

Head of Design at MultiPlatforms (ex-FoundersDAO)

January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026

Reduced design-to-development handoff time to near-zero by introducing code-first prototyping workflow across 3 parallel products. Led product design of AI-native messenger unifying human and AI agent conversations across multiple platforms, with marketplace of 200+ AI agents. Managed and mentored design team of 4 designers under constantly shifting product requirements.

Product Designer - Lead Designer at FoundersDAO

January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024

Designed end-to-end platform connecting early-stage founders with investors — social layer, fundraising tools and surrounding infrastructure in one ecosystem. Increased onboarding completion from 20% to 75% by redesigning 12-step form into AI-powered single-screen flow. Designed and shipped in-house fintech banking system integrated with European provider Linkcy; from 2-screen MVP to full transaction infrastructure in 4 months. Introduced ship-rough-validate-refine methodology adopted across product and engineering, cutting throwaway work across 3 platform rebuilds.

Design Mentor (part-time) at Contented

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025

Mentored 15+ designers across 4 years through 1:1 sessions, workshops and industry adaptation.

Product Designer at Freelance

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2023

Delivered end-to-end design for 10+ products across fintech, e-commerce, healthcare and crypto including OZON and Pocket Manager investor MVP. Conducted full UX research cycle for OZON including competitor analysis, user interviews, usability testing, unmoderated field tests and two A/B testing rounds, improving personalization conversion metrics.