Product Designer with 6+ years of experience designing fintech, banking, lending, mobile, and complex platform products. Strong in end-to-end discovery-to-delivery: user research, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, prototyping, usability testing, WCAG-aware design, and developer handoff. Improved task success by up to 20% and reduced task completion time by up to 30% across merchant onboarding, lending workflows, search, archive, and digital banking flows. Experienced partnering with stakeholders, product managers, and agile engineering teams.

Siamak Aghebati

Product Designer with 6+ years of experience designing fintech, banking, lending, mobile, and complex platform products. Strong in end-to-end discovery-to-delivery: user research, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, prototyping, usability testing, WCAG-aware design, and developer handoff. Improved task success by up to 20% and reduced task completion time by up to 30% across merchant onboarding, lending workflows, search, archive, and digital banking flows. Experienced partnering with stakeholders, product managers, and agile engineering teams.

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Product Designer with 6+ years of experience designing fintech, banking, lending, mobile, and complex platform products. Strong in end-to-end discovery-to-delivery: user research, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, prototyping, usability testing, WCAG-aware design, and developer handoff. Improved task success by up to 20% and reduced task completion time by up to 30% across merchant onboarding, lending workflows, search, archive, and digital banking flows. Experienced partnering with
stakeholders, product managers, and agile engineering teams.

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Language

English
Advanced
Persian
Fluent

Work Experience

Product Designer at RailTown
March 1, 2022 - November 1, 2024
Conducted multi-stage research of social media users to identify archetypes, needs, and pain points, uncover opportunities to attract more users, and provide solutions to increase engagement with Fediverse. Achievements include a 23% faster completion time for related article search in Fediverse Academy, 19% higher task success for finding/ accessing the desired platform in Fediverse City, and a 30% reduction in search/archival asset retrieval time in Kimia due to redesigned search and archives.
Senior UI/UX Designer at Tobank
April 1, 2020 - February 28, 2022
Applied user-centered design methods to translate research findings into wireframes and prototypes. Led user research with interviews of users of similar products to identify needs and frustrations, producing a SWOT map to guide product vision. Contributed to improvements in online banking flows and related interfaces.
UI/UX Designer at Tenian Holding
January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020
Led UI/UX design for multiple projects (Fintech, B2B, B2C, tourism and admin software) from research to final execution. Conducted user research to identify needs and pain points, created personas and journeys, and delivered pixel-perfect interfaces. Achieved high satisfaction ratings from GardeshPay users for handling financial situations.
Co-Founder, Freelance UI/UX Designer at Zarbin Ltd
February 1, 2011 - December 31, 2019
Co-founded and led design efforts across various projects, applying UX research methods and designing solutions aligned with client goals and user needs. Mentored junior designers in research extraction and interface delivery.
Graphic Designer at Setareh Vanak
July 1, 2016 - February 28, 2019
Designed 50+ billboards, catalogs, brochures, social posts and advertisement campaigns from ideation to final output.
Product Designer at Vibe
November 1, 2024 - June 1, 2026
Designed fintech and banking experiences across Vibe, a BNPL product; Refah Kar, a micro-lending product; and FaraRefah, Refah Bank’s mobile app. Collaborated with stakeholders, PMs and agile engineering teams from requirements gathering through sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and delivery. • Improved Vibe merchant signup and store-connection task success by 20% by aligning stakeholders around an upfront product vision, mapping onboarding scenarios, and prototyping a simplified merchant flow. • Reduced Refah Kar product-addition task completion time by 30% by redesigning the merchant product-entry flow, removing redundant fields, and clarifying the step sequence across 7 screens. • Designed and delivered customer, merchant, commercial, accounting, and admin panels plus landing pages, creating reusable patterns for complex forms, tables, dashboards, and role-based workflows. • Partnered with 4 product management and 5 engineers to translate BNPL, installment-loan, and micro-lending requirements into usable product flows and implementation-ready Figma designs.

Education

BS Metallurgy at Azad University, Science and Research
September 20, 2010 - June 1, 2014

Qualifications

Digital Photography Certification (MFT)
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026
Advertising Videography Certification (MFT)
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026
Webflow Designwich Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026
MFT Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education, Other