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Dmitri Mitikov

Tallinn

Summary

Product Manager with a focus on product strategy and user experience research. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, aligning with stakeholders, and improving user journeys. Emphasizes a user-centered approach, contributing to more efficient delivery processes, and product quality. Combines analytical thinking with practical team leadership.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager Team Lead

Wallester AS
Tallinn
02.2025 - Current
  • Led and mentored a team of 2 product managers, fostering growth through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and performance reviews.
  • Streamlined workflows across product, design, engineering, and QA, improving delivery predictability and reducing bottlenecks.
  • Acted as the main liaison between stakeholders and the product team, ensuring transparency on priorities and progress.
  • Oversaw product execution across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business goals and timely delivery.
  • Provided leadership with actionable updates on key metrics, milestones, and resource planning.
  • Contributed to long-term product strategy, aligning team output with company objectives and market trends.
  • Championed a user-first mindset and cross-functional collaboration, driving delivery of high-quality features.
  • Supported hiring and onboarding of new team members to ensure a strong, scalable product organization.

Product Manager

Wallester AS
Tallinn
05.2023 - Current
  • Owned and delivered end-to-end mobile and platform initiatives, including back-office systems, reporting tools, and core platform enhancements.
  • Drove UX improvements through user research, data analysis, and close collaboration with design.
  • Introduced product analytics to identify friction points and guide continuous UI/UX improvements.
  • Led cross-functional delivery for both internal and White-Label products, ensuring stakeholder alignment and timely execution.
  • Built strong partnerships with engineering, design, and business teams to maintain quality and efficiency across projects.

UX Designer

Swedbank AS
Tallinn
03.2020 - 05.2023
  • Accelerated product delivery and improved design consistency by building and implementing a scalable design system based on Google Material guidelines.
  • Enhanced product usability and user satisfaction by leading UX research initiatives that uncovered critical pain points through interviews, testing, and behavioral analysis.
  • Strengthened decision-making and stakeholder alignment by translating research findings into actionable insights that shaped product priorities and validated business assumptions.
  • Drove user-centric innovation by actively contributing UX expertise to early product strategy discussions, influencing feature direction and design thinking from the ground up.

Android & iOS UI/UX Designer & Prototyper

True
02.2019 - 02.2020
  • Improved final product quality and consistency by refining and optimizing design assets for smooth developer handoff and implementation.
  • Reduced development delays and improved UX integrity by proactively collaborating with engineers to resolve design challenges throughout the build phase.
  • Increased design efficiency and reduced inconsistencies by creating a comprehensive design system from the ground up, enabling faster delivery and minimizing visual/UI bugs.
  • Accelerated stakeholder buy-in and reduced revision cycles by developing high-fidelity interactive app prototypes in ProtoPie, clearly communicating design intent and user interactions.

Design Team Lead

Saule IT Services OÜ
Tallinn
04.2016 - 02.2019
  • Led UX/UI design for web across two distinct markets, ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Provided comprehensive support to marketing departments by creating and supplying marketing materials for two websites and two physical retail locations.
  • Managed and guided a design team of two, which included: Gathering and analyzing requirements from stakeholders, Structuring and optimizing the workflow for efficiency, Ensuring consistent, timely project delivery.
  • Established and maintained a reusable design asset library for recurring campaigns and other requirements.
  • Led a complete redesign of a responsive website to enhance mobile usability, resulting in a 4x increase in mobile user engagement.

Software Development Manager

Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH
03.2018 - 09.2018

web-developer

Prime-Art
05.2013 - 12.2013
  • Front/back-end developer
  • Skills:C#, XML, XSL/XSLT, SQL,MSSQL, HTML,CSS, JavaScript, Google api
  • Www.eduversion.com og www.skuspace.com

Education

AP - Computer Science

UCN, Professionshøjskolen University College Nordjylland
01.2014

Skills

  • User and UX research
  • Design thinking
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Project management
  • Product strategy
  • Product analytics
  • Team leadership
  • Product development

Background

Product manager, project manager, UX researcher | Mobile and desktop apps | Fintech

Affiliations

  • Karting
  • Game development
  • Self-learning

Languages

Russian
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Product Manager Team Lead

Wallester AS
02.2025 - Current

Product Manager

Wallester AS
05.2023 - Current

UX Designer

Swedbank AS
03.2020 - 05.2023

Android & iOS UI/UX Designer & Prototyper

True
02.2019 - 02.2020

Software Development Manager

Helix Cognitive Computing GmbH
03.2018 - 09.2018

Design Team Lead

Saule IT Services OÜ
04.2016 - 02.2019

web-developer

Prime-Art
05.2013 - 12.2013

AP - Computer Science

UCN, Professionshøjskolen University College Nordjylland

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