Benyamin Najafi
Senior Product Designer

10+ years of experience leading design teams to build scalable products, from 0→1 startups to market-leading platforms. I drive product discovery and align cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Benyamin Najafi
Senior Product Designer
10+ years of experience leading design teams to build scalable products, from 0→1 startups to market-leading platforms. I drive product discovery and align cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Benyamin Najafi
Senior Product Designer
10+ years of experience leading design teams to build scalable products, from 0→1 startups to market-leading platforms. I drive product discovery and align cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Updated: April 04, 2026
Updated: April 04, 2026
Scaling to 4.5M Users: A Data-Driven Platform Redesign
Spearheaded a complete platform redesign by establishing a robust, scalable design system to ensure long-term consistency.
Leadership: Led a team of 7 to iterate and enhance the core product experience.
Continuous Discovery: Targeted user needs by blending qualitative insights with quantitative data (Heap, Clarity, PostHog, Metabase).
Massive Impact: Fueled hyper-growth by scaling the platform's user base from 700,000 to over 4.5 million.
Role
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Product Design Manager
Expertise
:
Product Strategy
Industry
:
Crypto & Investment

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Scaling to 4.5M Users: A Data-Driven Platform Redesign
Spearheaded a complete platform redesign by establishing a robust, scalable design system to ensure long-term consistency.
Leadership: Led a team of 7 to iterate and enhance the core product experience.
Continuous Discovery: Targeted user needs by blending qualitative insights with quantitative data (Heap, Clarity, PostHog, Metabase).
Massive Impact: Fueled hyper-growth by scaling the platform's user base from 700,000 to over 4.5 million.
Role
:
Product Design Manager
Expertise
:
Product Strategy
Industry
:
Crypto & Investment

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Scaling to 4.5M Users: A Data-Driven Platform Redesign
Spearheaded a complete platform redesign by establishing a robust, scalable design system to ensure long-term consistency.
Leadership: Led a team of 7 to iterate and enhance the core product experience.
Continuous Discovery: Targeted user needs by blending qualitative insights with quantitative data (Heap, Clarity, PostHog, Metabase).
Massive Impact: Fueled hyper-growth by scaling the platform's user base from 700,000 to over 4.5 million.
Role
:
Product Design Manager
Expertise
:
Product Strategy
Industry
:
Crypto & Investment

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Redefining Grocery Discovery: The Shift to a Vendor-Less Shopping Architecture
I led the transition from a restrictive vendor-first model to a unified "Product-Based" experience by analyzing quantitative funnels (Metabase) and qualitative behaviors (Hotjar session recordings and usability tests).
To reduce interaction cost, I completely redesigned the core purchase flow. This iterative, data-driven strategy drastically shortened the user journey and decision time.
Successfully shifted user behavior by prioritizing product discovery over store selection;
Scaled the feature from an experimental MVP to a core flow, increasing search-to-cart conversion;
Established a robust foundation for a vendor-less shopping architecture across the platform.
Role
:
Product Designer
Expertise
:
Flow & Research
Industry
:
FMCG (Grocery)

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Redefining Grocery Discovery: The Shift to a Vendor-Less Shopping Architecture
I led the transition from a restrictive vendor-first model to a unified "Product-Based" experience by analyzing quantitative funnels (Metabase) and qualitative behaviors (Hotjar session recordings and usability tests).
To reduce interaction cost, I completely redesigned the core purchase flow. This iterative, data-driven strategy drastically shortened the user journey and decision time.
Successfully shifted user behavior by prioritizing product discovery over store selection;
Scaled the feature from an experimental MVP to a core flow, increasing search-to-cart conversion;
Established a robust foundation for a vendor-less shopping architecture across the platform.
Role
:
Product Designer
Expertise
:
Flow & Research
Industry
:
FMCG (Grocery)

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Redefining Grocery Discovery: The Shift to a Vendor-Less Shopping Architecture
I led the transition from a restrictive vendor-first model to a unified "Product-Based" experience by analyzing quantitative funnels (Metabase) and qualitative behaviors (Hotjar session recordings and usability tests).
To reduce interaction cost, I completely redesigned the core purchase flow. This iterative, data-driven strategy drastically shortened the user journey and decision time.
Successfully shifted user behavior by prioritizing product discovery over store selection;
Scaled the feature from an experimental MVP to a core flow, increasing search-to-cart conversion;
Established a robust foundation for a vendor-less shopping architecture across the platform.
Role
:
Product Designer
Expertise
:
Flow & Research
Industry
:
FMCG (Grocery)

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Orchestrating Delivery at Scale: A Complete Upgrade of a National Fintech Platform
To ensure seamless delivery from design to deployment, I managed the entire product development process end-to-end.
My responsibilities included handing over finalized designs to infrastructure, backend, frontend, and QA teams, as well as supervising the planning, testing, and release phases.
By overseeing the full workflow, I ensured execution was efficient, high-quality, and fully aligned with both user needs and business objectives.
Role
:
Product Design Manager
Expertise
:
Shipping & Delivery
Industry
:
Fintech

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Orchestrating Delivery at Scale: A Complete Upgrade of a National Fintech Platform
To ensure seamless delivery from design to deployment, I managed the entire product development process end-to-end.
My responsibilities included handing over finalized designs to infrastructure, backend, frontend, and QA teams, as well as supervising the planning, testing, and release phases.
By overseeing the full workflow, I ensured execution was efficient, high-quality, and fully aligned with both user needs and business objectives.
Role
:
Product Design Manager
Expertise
:
Shipping & Delivery
Industry
:
Fintech

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Orchestrating Delivery at Scale: A Complete Upgrade of a National Fintech Platform
To ensure seamless delivery from design to deployment, I managed the entire product development process end-to-end.
My responsibilities included handing over finalized designs to infrastructure, backend, frontend, and QA teams, as well as supervising the planning, testing, and release phases.
By overseeing the full workflow, I ensured execution was efficient, high-quality, and fully aligned with both user needs and business objectives.
Role
:
Product Design Manager
Expertise
:
Shipping & Delivery
Industry
:
Fintech

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Modernization Without Disruption: Rolling Out a Design System on a Live Operation
I led as Product Design Lead with a dual mandate: build the team and modernize the product without disrupting a live operation. I assembled the product design team end-to-end defining roles, hiring and onboarding, and setting rituals (crits, design reviews, async specs) that tightened our collaboration with Product & Engineering.
In parallel, I architected a new design system (tokens, components, accessibility, content guidelines) with clear governance and versioning, enabling consistent, scalable UI across surfaces.
To de-risk change, I audited and documented every current-state flow, clarified ownership, and established canonical user journeys. I then planned and managed a phased migration to the new system rollouts, compatibility tracking, and team training so we could evolve the experience step by step while maintaining service continuity.

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Modernization Without Disruption: Rolling Out a Design System on a Live Operation
I led as Product Design Lead with a dual mandate: build the team and modernize the product without disrupting a live operation. I assembled the product design team end-to-end defining roles, hiring and onboarding, and setting rituals (crits, design reviews, async specs) that tightened our collaboration with Product & Engineering.
In parallel, I architected a new design system (tokens, components, accessibility, content guidelines) with clear governance and versioning, enabling consistent, scalable UI across surfaces.
To de-risk change, I audited and documented every current-state flow, clarified ownership, and established canonical user journeys. I then planned and managed a phased migration to the new system rollouts, compatibility tracking, and team training so we could evolve the experience step by step while maintaining service continuity.

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Modernization Without Disruption: Rolling Out a Design System on a Live Operation
I led as Product Design Lead with a dual mandate: build the team and modernize the product without disrupting a live operation. I assembled the product design team end-to-end defining roles, hiring and onboarding, and setting rituals (crits, design reviews, async specs) that tightened our collaboration with Product & Engineering.
In parallel, I architected a new design system (tokens, components, accessibility, content guidelines) with clear governance and versioning, enabling consistent, scalable UI across surfaces.
To de-risk change, I audited and documented every current-state flow, clarified ownership, and established canonical user journeys. I then planned and managed a phased migration to the new system rollouts, compatibility tracking, and team training so we could evolve the experience step by step while maintaining service continuity.

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Founding a Fintech: From Rapid Ideation to Market Launch
Spearheaded the zero-to-one product and service design for a novel melted gold trading and storage platform, tasked with navigating established market limitations and shaping a strong Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy:
Accelerated Product Delivery: Partnered cross-functionally with two 10x engineers, rapid ideation, swift decision-making & seamless implementation;
Strategic Market Positioning: Conducted comprehensive UX audits of all competitors to analyze qualitative and quantitative market realities;
Scaled Team Infrastructure: Recruited and onboarded the foundational product and engineering team, including Senior Product Designers and Frontend Developers.
Role
:
Founding Product Designer
Expertise
:
MVP Design & Planning
Industry
:
Fintech (Investment)

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Founding a Fintech: From Rapid Ideation to Market Launch
Spearheaded the zero-to-one product and service design for a novel melted gold trading and storage platform, tasked with navigating established market limitations and shaping a strong Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy:
Accelerated Product Delivery: Partnered cross-functionally with two 10x engineers, rapid ideation, swift decision-making & seamless implementation;
Strategic Market Positioning: Conducted comprehensive UX audits of all competitors to analyze qualitative and quantitative market realities;
Scaled Team Infrastructure: Recruited and onboarded the foundational product and engineering team, including Senior Product Designers and Frontend Developers.
Role
:
Founding Product Designer
Expertise
:
MVP Design & Planning
Industry
:
Fintech (Investment)

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Founding a Fintech: From Rapid Ideation to Market Launch
Spearheaded the zero-to-one product and service design for a novel melted gold trading and storage platform, tasked with navigating established market limitations and shaping a strong Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy:
Accelerated Product Delivery: Partnered cross-functionally with two 10x engineers, rapid ideation, swift decision-making & seamless implementation;
Strategic Market Positioning: Conducted comprehensive UX audits of all competitors to analyze qualitative and quantitative market realities;
Scaled Team Infrastructure: Recruited and onboarded the foundational product and engineering team, including Senior Product Designers and Frontend Developers.
Role
:
Founding Product Designer
Expertise
:
MVP Design & Planning
Industry
:
Fintech (Investment)

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