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Lead Product Designer / Design Lead

I design enterprise products for complex operations and measurable business outcomes.

15+ years in Product Design across industry, logistics, EdTech, and SaaS. I lead products from research and UX architecture through launch, metrics, and design leadership.

Gazprom Neft
Springer Nature
Macmillan Education
AnyLogic
ITMO University
Reksoft

* Many examples are shown at the concept stage. Production designs are protected by NDA.

Konstantin Kirgintsev
Enterprise UX Industrial Systems · B2B · SaaS
15+ years

Complex product design, design leadership, and enterprise solution launches.

Business impact

More than interfaces.
Numbers that matter to the business.

₽60M

per month: a concept became the foundation of a new contract for Gazpromneft Transport & Logistics

35%

reduction in equipment downtime in an industrial case

×7

faster operator response to deviations

60%

ROI from digital process automation

Selected work

Featured projects

These cases show how design improves operational metrics, speeds up decisions, and helps launch new lines of business.

Industrial / B2E / Enterprise

Digital platform for mining operations management

An ecosystem for dispatchers, managers, and heavy-equipment operators: planning, monitoring, shift tasks, deviations, and decision support.

35%less downtime
×7response speed
60%ROI

Business challenge

Unify mining, transportation, and shift-task management in a single system for two operating sites.

Outcome

  • The platform covered the dispatch center, analytics, and operator workstations.
  • Key workflows moved from manual control into a digital environment.
  • The solution advanced to industrial field testing.

My contribution

  • Sole Product Designer on the product.
  • Field research, CJM, UX architecture, and prototypes.
  • A web platform for dispatchers and mobile interfaces for heavy equipment.
Control Center

24/7 dispatching and monitoring

Planning

Plan vs actual, Gantt charts, and shift tasks

Operator Tablet

In-cab interfaces for heavy equipment

Decision Support

KPIs, deviations, and recommendations

EdTech / Enterprise SaaS

Springer Nature / Macmillan Education — educational content management platform

A workspace for authors, editors, and production teams creating and approving educational content.

−45%content checks
×3review speed
−30%content errors

Business challenge

Reduce friction in the editorial process and make complex learning-material structures manageable.

Outcome

  • Redesigned content creation, review, and approval workflows.
  • Improved navigation through the activity tree.
  • Made comments and statuses clearer for distributed teams.

My contribution

  • Sole Product Designer for the product area.
  • Designed a complex content operations platform.
  • Led demos, interviews, and solution reviews in English.
Logistics / CRM / Presale

Gazprom Neft — G‑Manager and a transport logistics ecosystem

Operational products for a filling-station network and fuel logistics: mobile CRM, compliance monitoring, BI, and presales for a new business line.

₽60Mmonthly contract
×5control speed
−40%manual work

Business challenge

Show how a digital product could reduce manual oversight and open a new logistics line of business.

Outcome

  • The concept became the foundation of a contract worth about ₽60 million per month.
  • The product narrative helped sell the new service to a major enterprise client.
  • The project received the corporate NIKA Award.

My contribution

  • Field research, interviews, and process analysis.
  • Interactive concepts for presales.
  • Mentored a designer at the start of the project.
Simulation Software / SaaS

AnyLogic — a new web product for an engineering platform

Moving complex simulation logic from desktop patterns into a modern web product for professional users.

−35%cognitive load
×2workflow speed
MVPproduct launch

Business challenge

Build a web-product MVP without sacrificing the power of a professional engineering tool.

Outcome

  • Designed the new product MVP.
  • The solution became part of the AnyLogic Cloud product line.
  • Complex workflows gained a clearer web structure.

My contribution

  • Sole Product Designer.
  • UX for a complex engineering platform.
  • Demos, feedback, and iterations with an international team.
Education / Mentoring

ITMO University — master’s thesis mentor

I help students turn research, prototypes, and interfaces into mature product cases.

2023–2025period
25+theses
100%product focus

Challenge

Develop students’ product thinking, from problem framing and research to a well-supported solution.

Outcome

  • Mentored master’s thesis projects.
  • Strengthened students’ product thinking.
  • Prepared students to defend and present their solutions.

My contribution

  • UX/UI and product logic guidance.
  • Reviews of research, workflows, and prototypes.
  • Mentoring and case-study feedback.
Recognition

NIKA Award for contribution to business growth

Reksoft’s Special Merit Award, received after bringing in a new line of work for Gazpromneft Transport & Logistics.

A rare case where a UX concept was directly tied to a new contract and a measurable business outcome.

NIKA Award ceremony NIKA Award
About

Why companies trust me with complex products

I get up to speed quickly

Mining, logistics, banking, EdTech, and simulation software.

I speak both business and engineering

My technical background helps me understand constraints and advocate for design decisions.

I work as a lead

I have built design teams, hired designers, and mentored professionals.

I accelerate work with AI tools

I use ChatGPT, Codex, and Cursor for research, hypotheses, and rapid product iterations.

Contact

Open to discussing product roles in Enterprise, B2B, or industrial automation.

Konstantin Kirgintsev

Lead Product Designer / Design Lead

Saint Petersburg · remote / hybrid

+7 981 978-85-48 kirgintcev@gmail.com Telegram: @kirgincev