Portrait of Nikita Efimchik

NIKITA EFIMCHIK

SRG Plus

Product Lead

  • Built from zero a SaaS product for managing social media content inside a single application: formed the team, set up the development process and took the application through Apple review to the App Store.
  • Launched the iOS application and the web version in parallel, reaching 50 active corporate clients and around 10,000 users within the first year.
  • Own the product in full: strategy, roadmap, team, release cycle and monetization.

Los Angeles, United States · Remote · 2024 - now

Serge Creator Studios

Project Manager → Product Lead

  • Led a team of 10 and a portfolio of five client products, each with its own development cycle and release schedule.
  • Introduced new quality control systems across the studio’s delivery process, extending average client retention by a year.
  • Launched and led SRG Plus, a product incubated inside the studio, moving the company from client services into its own product.

Los Angeles, United States · Remote · 2021 - 2024

Kinez

Project Manager

  • Won a competitive tender and delivered the MVP of Kinez App, a mobile controller for a prosthetic knee module, in three months on iOS and Android simultaneously.
  • Scaled the product from MVP to full public release by month eight, then transferred the product, team and documentation to the owner.
  • Delivered a hardware connected medtech product at a Skolkovo resident company, coordinating mobile development with the prosthetics engineering team.

Moscow, Russia · Project · 2019 - 2020

Appgile SL

UX/UI Designer → Project Manager

  • Delivered operational banking software for Banco Santander at a Madrid based enterprise software company, joining remotely and relocating to Madrid within three months.
  • Launched a corporate calculator for Banco Santander, a product serving more than 50,000 users.
  • Moved from design into project management, leading a team of 12 and establishing business processes, delivery metrics and the working protocol between the bank and engineering.

Madrid, Spain · Office · 2019 - 2020

United Company

UX/UI Designer

  • Designed the interfaces of a corporate CRM system for warehouse volume control and operations management.
  • Delivered software for logistics, operational management and customer account portals across the company’s enterprise product line.
  • Designed a new company product, an electric vehicle charging service, later brought to market.

Minsk, Belarus · Office · 2016 - 2019

Belarusian State University

Faculty of Journalism, BA in Information and Communication

A degree at the intersection of strategic communications, information management and reputation: communication strategy, media and public relations.

Minsk, Belarus · Full time · 2015 - 2019