About
Alex Gilev is a strategic design leader, based in Miami, with 16 years of experience leading complex projects ranging from 0 → 1 startups to large Fortune 500 companies.
Alex partners with founders to define product vision through rapid prototyping, embedding with engineering teams to execute and iterate until product-market fit is achieved.
Capabilities
Strategic Alignment
Tying design outcomes to product strategy, ensuring that customer experiences are both meaningful and aligned with organizational priorities.
Product Development Lifecycle
A deep expertise in the full lifecycle of product development, including collaboration across product, design, engineering and overseeing and developing best in class processes for UX, research, and content teams.
Craft and Quality
Defining and upholding a standard of excellence for polished, user-centered design. Never settling for mediocre result.
Visionary Leader
Encouraging teams to embrace iteration and innovation as tools to create impactful, customer-centered solutions. Align the team around a shared vision for success that fosters a sense of ownership and pride in their work.
Design Systems
Experienced in leveraging and influencing design systems to deliver cohesive and scalable solutions.
Client Roster
Apple
Harvard Medical School
CDC
Silicon Valley Bank
MasterClass
Bain & Company
Johnson & Johnson
JOOR
DailyPay
Fantasy
TradeZella
xTrades
IO.NET
MyFundedFutures
Featured In
Apple News
Forbes
FastCompany
OpenView VC
Hackernoon
Abduzeedo
WebDesigner News
MIRO
Education &
Certifications
"Product Management" by Stanford Business School.
“Disruptive Strategy” by Harvard Business School.
"Blockchain & Crypto Fundamentals" by MIT.
"UX Management" by Nielsen Norman Group.
"Product Manager" & "Product Leader" by Product School.
"Digital Psychology" by CXL.
"Enterprise Design Thinking" by IBM.
"Business Design" by IDEO.
"Value Proposition & Business Model Design" by Strategyzer.
Highlights
Launched Ocean — the world’s fastest AI search engine. Featured by Forbes. Powered by Cerebras chips. Designed and developed from the ground up. By the time the TestNet launched, there were 130,000 active users (2025).
Designed a first-of-its-kind application for Apple Vision Pro — CyranoHealth — in collaboration with Apple, revolutionizing medical equipment training for healthcare teams. Featured by Figma, Apple, and FastCompany (2024).
Led design initiatives pivotal in securing $30M in series A funding for IO.net, the world's largest decentralized GPU network. The company is now valued at $4 billion (2023).
Evangelized and transformed the design discipline at DailyPay, a leading wage access platform, by establishing a scalable design system, redesigning internal tools to increase staff efficiency. Awarded the “Best HR Tech Award” (2021).
Played a critical role in securing $18M in funding for Backbone PLM as Founding Designer, by conceptualizing and launching the product lifecycle management platform from the ground up(2017).
Apple tried to hire me. Twice (2016, 2024).
1:1 Mentorship
I'm passionate about helping aspiring designers leap to the next level and become more strategic with their work.