About
Alex Gilev is a Strategic Product Design Leader, based in Miami, with 15+ years of industry experience in leading a variety of complex projects ranging from pre-funding SaaS startups to large Fortune 500 corporations.
Alex partners with founders to define a product vision through rapid prototyping while embedding with engineering teams to execute and iterate on it until reaching product/market fit.
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Designed a first of its kind application for Apple Vision Pro, in collaboration with Apple, which revolutionized medical equipment training for healthcare teams and earned commendation from Apple.
Red Dot Award Design Nominee (The most prestigious and sought-after design awards in the world) – CyranoHealth, featured by Figma, Apple, Boston Globe, FastCompany.
Led design initiatives pivotal in securing $30M in series A funding for IO.net, the world's largest decentralized GPU network, addressing AI compute shortages.
Evangelized and transformed the design discipline at DailyPay (an industry-leading wage access platform in New York) by establishing a scalable design system, redesigning internal tools to increase staff efficiency, and pushing the envelope to create ground-breaking new products and experiences that received the “Best HR Tech Award” in 2024.
Advised Bain & Company as a UX expert, shaping an educational portal that empowered enterprise companies to adopt digital transformation and design-thinking methodologies.
Played a critical role in securing $18M in funding for Backbone PLM as a Founding Designer by conceptualizing the software for managing product lifecycle development from the ground up; leading to recognition as one of 2019's Best Startups in Boulder, powered by CrunchBase.
1:1 Mentorship
I am very passionate about helping aspiring designers leap to the next level.