# Szymon Michalczyk

**Senior Product Designer** — Bydgoszcz, Poland

> Product designer with 15 years of experience building complex B2B SaaS and developer tools, currently at tonik where I've led design for startups from rough idea to shipped product.

Career Archetype: **Horizon Trailblazer** (RB-MG) — One of the first Horizon Trailblazers on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/szmichalczyk
- szmichalczyk.com: https://szmichalczyk.com/
- x.com/szmichalczyk: https://x.com/szmichalczyk

## Experience

### Head of Product Design (2024) / Lead Product Designer (2022) / Product Designer, Tonik (2020-04 – 2026-09)
Poznań, Wielkopolskie, Poland · Leading product design at tonik: a team of 16 designers at its peak, working with early-stage startups from first idea to shipped product. I own the quality bar, the career path, and hiring end to end, and I moved the team to AI-native delivery, with every designer prototyping with AI. I never stopped designing myself: the projects with the least room for error stay on my plate, including on-site product work through a16z Speedrun cohorts in LA and San Francisco.

### Young Jury, Awwwards (2018-12 – 2024-12)

### Web Designer, PROFITROOM (2017-11 – 2020-03)
Poznań, Wielkopolskie, Poland · Designed concepts and custom web interfaces for the hotel industry.

### Senior Product Designer, Design Leader, szmichalczyk.com (2014-01 – present)

## Education

### Certification, Product Discovery Practitioner (2022-01 – 2022-12)

### Engineer's degree in Computer Science, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu (2015-09 – 2018-06)
Thesis: Petly - a social application for animal owners. User Experience and UX testing.

## Projects

### Meritech Analytics
VC benchmarking SaaS · Redesigned company profiles, metric charts, filters and lists for C-level use. Built a persistent filter sidebar and rebuilt a company selector over several iterations with saved lists by sector.

### Extropic DevKit
Cloud platform for thermodynamic computing chips · Designed the dashboard and visual language from scratch for a hardware category that did not exist before. Created design system for a new class of AI chips.

### Courted
Network for real estate agents · Led product design for 1.5+ years on desktop and mobile. Designed agent profiles, home feed, messaging, referrals, transactions, transaction matching, marketing reports, market insights, and team management. Every feature went through dozens of iterations shaped by feedback from founders' agent network.

### a16z Tech Week
Event calendar platform and sales materials · Owned design for event calendar platform, websites, and sales deck. Brought heatmap and session-recording analysis to the client, which drove increased submissions.

### Browser Use
Landing page for web agents · Designed landing page turning a technical product into a clear story. Client returned for platform redesign which I oversaw as another designer's lead.

### LlamaIndex Series B pitch deck
Pitch deck for AI infrastructure company · Designed pitch deck turning technical product into compelling fundraising story.

### Februar
Fiat-to-crypto Web3 checkout · Designed checkout experience for Web3 payment product.

### Wildfires
Tech to end megafires · Designed product interface for wildfire prevention technology.

## Skills

Team Management, Team Building, Team Leadership, Rapid Prototyping, Coaching, Design Team Coordination, Design Management, Product Design, Problem Solving, Design Leadership, Teamwork, Communication, User Flows, Mobile Design, Graphic Design, Grafika, Logo Design, Typografia, Reklama, Media społecznościowe, Projektowanie interfejsów użytkownika, Ilustrator, Photoshop, Sketch, Projektowanie aplikacji stron internetowych, End-to-end UX/UI, Interaction design, Information architecture, Complex workflows, Data-dense dashboards, Multi-role permissions, Design systems, Visual design, UX writing, Discovery workshops, Figma, Framer, Claude Code, Cursor, Figma MCP, shadcn/ui, Code prototyping, AI-assisted design, B2B SaaS, Developer tools, AI infrastructure, VC analytics, Fintech, Proptech, Hardware design, Landing pages, Pitch decks, Heatmap analysis, Microsoft Clarity, Polish, English

## Credentials

- **Product Discovery Practitioner Certificate** — Product Pro - AI&Product Management Experts (issued 2022-06)
- **Google Analytics Individual Qualification** — Google
- **Profil zespołowy na Dribbble - wsparcie biznesowe czy strata czasu?**

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