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

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Product Strategy

Industry

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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

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Product Designer

Expertise

:

Flow & Research

Industry

:

FMCG (Grocery)

Flow Experimentation

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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)

Flow Experimentation

:

Tap or Drag

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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)

Flow Experimentation

:

Tap or Drag

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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

Leading product delivery

:

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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

Leading product delivery

:

Tap or Drag

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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

Leading product delivery

:

Tap or Drag

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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.

Role

:

Product Designer Lead

Expertise

:

Design System & Flow

Industry

:

Retail

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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.

Role

:

Product Designer Lead

Expertise

:

Design System & Flow

Industry

:

Retail

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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.

Role

:

Product Designer Lead

Expertise

:

Design System & Flow

Industry

:

Retail

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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

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Founding Product Designer

Expertise

:

MVP Design & Planning

Industry

:

Fintech (Investment)

Building the 0 → 1 foundation

:

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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)

Building the 0 → 1 foundation

:

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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)

Building the 0 → 1 foundation

:

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