I'm Diana, a brand designer🧚 I’ve led art direction on multiple projects and worked both in-house + freelance across retail, D2C and Wellness (loot's of it!) I build strategic and recognizable brand systems that portray your brand's values, look great and actually sell to your audience. 💌

Diana Kiriiainen

I'm Diana, a brand designer🧚 I’ve led art direction on multiple projects and worked both in-house + freelance across retail, D2C and Wellness (loot's of it!) I build strategic and recognizable brand systems that portray your brand's values, look great and actually sell to your audience. 💌

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I’m Diana, a brand designer🧚
I’ve led art direction on multiple projects and worked both in-house + freelance across retail, D2C and Wellness (loot’s of it!) I build strategic and recognizable brand systems that portray your brand’s values, look great and actually sell to your audience. 💌

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Language

English
Advanced
Ukrainian
Fluent
Russian
Fluent

Work Experience

Designer at Belles a Boutique
March 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Delivered high-quality web and mobile assets aligned with brand direction and marketing objectives. Designed email marketing campaigns with sales up to $30k per email in collaboration with the marketing team to align with promotional strategies and content calendars. Led social content design for 600k+ followers, achieving up to 30k likes per post and strengthening brand presence.
Design Team Lead at Belles a Boutique
March 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Built and managed a design team of 4 designers (freelance + full time), including hiring, onboarding, and operations. Owned packaging, print, email, influencer (up to 8M reach), and web design, collaborating cross-functionally with dev, ops, and marketing under fast-paced, high-pressure cycles. Ensured brand consistency by overseeing all creative output across the team. Led full-cycle design for marketing campaigns across print, digital, email, web, and social. Designed high-quality web and mobile assets aligned with brand direction and marketing objectives; led email marketing campaign design supporting sales up to $30k per email. Led social content design for 600k+ followers, achieving up to 30k likes per post and strengthening brand presence.
Founder / Designer at Kinx
March 1, 2023 - Present
Independently created and maintained a brand identity within a short timeframe. Conducted research, strategic planning, and design for social media materials (posts, stories, reels, etc.) to ensure consistent brand image across platforms. Designed and executed development of a fully functional online store website, overseeing the end-to-end process from research and copywriting to wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, development, and troubleshooting.
Visual Designer at Globacore Interactive Technologies
November 1, 2021 - April 1, 2023
Designed touchscreens for Dassault at CES 2022, winning a Silver Award for Best Use of Touch or Gesture Interactives. Independently and as part of a team, designed 20+ successful projects for worldwide-known brands including card issuing platforms, medical companies, and telecom companies. One project—a digital display touch-screen installation for a shopping center—was installed in five malls across Canada and received media coverage. Redesigned the company website and social media to improve brand image. Created, troubleshot, and maintained working presentation templates that reduced managers’ presentation prep time by more than half.
Brand Designer (Freelance) at Guide Book Launch Freelance
May 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021
Worked with a client on a long-term basis maintaining a library of reusable UI components. Completed all design stages from client brief through final product. Collaborated with a cross-functional team and managed a web designer, developer, and copywriter to deliver a high-standard website on time, contributing to a 40% sales increase.
Brand Designer (Freelance/Contract) at Guide Book Launch
May 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021
Worked with a client on a long-term basis maintaining a reusable UI component library. Handled all design stages from client brief to final product. Collaborated with cross-functional team members (web designer, developer, copywriter) to develop a high-standard website on schedule, contributing to a 40% sales increase alongside the team.

Education

at Humber College
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
at Design Line & Vintage Web Agency
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2023
at Women’s in Design online teaching Hub
January 1, 2026 - January 1, 2026
Media Communications at Humber College
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

Google UX Certificate
January 1, 2024 - August 12, 2026
Design Line & Vintage Web Agency
January 1, 2023 - August 12, 2026
Women’s in Design online teaching Hub
January 1, 2026 - August 12, 2026
Affec t Design Competition (Power Plant Art Gallery & CC BI) — Affec t Design Competition
January 11, 2030 - August 12, 2026
Google UX Certificate
January 11, 2030 - August 12, 2026
Google UX Certificate
January 11, 2030 - August 12, 2026

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Retail, Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services, Telecommunications, Consumer Goods