HEY, I'M 

 BORIS VERKS — product designer turned product owner and 

 back‎.

 i'm currently open to WORK

Big image data management software for critical applications: biomedical, aerospace, automotive, and imaging system manufacturers. Based in Zug, CH

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Highlights

  • ✓ Conceptualized, delivered and iterated on cross-platform UX/UI, and 17 major updates.
  • ✓ Helped the sales team grow Jetraw from 0 to a stable sales pipeline, and onboard major academia and B2B customers.
  • ✓ Created a brand system to amplify messaging, and allow internal delegation.
  • ✓ Created a Tailwind-based design system to help save team's time for back-end development.
  • ✓ Jetraw won top industrial awards: Intel Ignite “Most Transformed”, Open Bosch, SPIE Prism, Innosuisse “Scale-Up”.

WORK SNIPPETS

Principle Product Designer

@Jetraw Platform

WORK SNIPPETS

Product Designer

@Jetraw Platform

2023 → Now

Innovative RAW image compression desktop tool for photography creatives. Based in Zug, CH

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Highlights

  • ✓ Finding product-market fit: CR visitors → downloads 2021 = 18.2%, freemium → paid 2021 = 30.3%, Yearly churn movement 2020→2021: 70%→30%
  • ✓ Designed MVP UX for macOS software, created brand identity, product naming, and market positioning, built and iterated no-code websites.
  • ✓ Led development team, took the product to market in 5 months, managed 80+ product updates.
  • ✓ Rawsie received Visual 1st SF Best Photo Technology award with jury led by Fujifilm

Product Designer → Product Owner

@Rawsie

Product Designer → Product Owner

@Rawsie

2018 → 2022

Eastern Europe’s largest book e-commerce platform

Highlights

  • ✓ Worked as a part of directors team leading to 12× revenue growth over 5 years.
  • ✓ Planned and led design-first AARRR jobs
  • ✓ Designed and managed development of apps that boosted revenue by 25%, achieved a 4.9 App Store rating, ranked #4 in category, and were featured live at Google I/O.
  • ✓ Built and directed a 3 FTE design team.

Growth Designer → Design Director

@Labyrinth Books

Growth Designer → Design Director

@Labyrinth Books

2012 → 2018

HOW CAN I HELP

I'm good at packing ideas into lovable tools through user experience design, branding, and storytelling. Work with me to conceptualize and take your new product to market, or to carefully iterate and expand an existing one.

With 10+ years of remote and hybrid experience, I value concise communication, working alongside independent, bold-minded people, keeping focus on vision rather than tools, and embracing transparent collaboration.

References

Each of my own projects throughout the last 10 years has been either designed by Boris or kicked off by him. I keep circling back to his expertise and the trust we’ve built over years.

—Solomon Shlosman  Serial founder at Soply, Yoututor, 321 Parentsy, Shoogar

Boris is super helpful in conceptualizing a product both as a big picture and down to micro interactions.

—Arianne Bercowsky   Product Owner @Jetraw

Boris consistently provides clean deliverables and always finds sideway solutions when we stumble on a technical limitation.

—Marc Vila  Front-end & Support Engineer @Jetraw

We've been working together since day zero. Boris's design ideas consistently elevated our product’s impact and clarity, making complex technology accessible and compelling for our users and investors alike.

—Bruno Sanguinetti & Eugenia Balysheva   Co-founders @Dotphoton

Features

Lapa

Htttpster

Landbook

Hoverstat.es

Minimal Gallery

One Page Love

Readymag Awards

Google I/O On-Stage Feature

App Store Editorial Feature ×3

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