Mahdi Gharib
Senior Product Designer & Design Engineer with 8 years across AI, SaaS, EdTech & Web3
Senior Designer
@
GenAI.Works
Presnet
Remote
Co-designed GenAI.Works Academy 0-to-1 in two months, from the learner interface through its course and launch collateral. Designed in Figma and shipped to production with Claude Code. Launch cleared $12K against a $10K target with no paid acquisition. The platform now has 37,000 registered student accounts and 31 live courses.
Co-led the website and landing page redesign. The new homepage was A/B tested against the old one at launch, lifting sign-ups 96% and scroll depth 56%.
Lead designer on partner campaigns for NVIDIA, Google, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and ElevenLabs. Designed 400+ assets distributed to the company's 14M+ community, generating 100M+ impressions.
Own design for the Atlas (3M subscribers) and Generative AI Daily (130K subscribers) newsletters: layout system, shared asset library, editorial visuals, and promotional sends.
Senior Designer
@
GenAI.Works
Presnet
Remote
Co-designed GenAI.Works Academy 0-to-1 in two months, from the learner interface through its course and launch collateral. Designed in Figma and shipped to production with Claude Code. Launch cleared $12K against a $10K target with no paid acquisition. The platform now has 37,000 registered student accounts and 31 live courses.
Co-led the website and landing page redesign. The new homepage was A/B tested against the old one at launch, lifting sign-ups 96% and scroll depth 56%.
Lead designer on partner campaigns for NVIDIA, Google, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and ElevenLabs. Designed 400+ assets distributed to the company's 14M+ community, generating 100M+ impressions.
Own design for the Atlas (3M subscribers) and Generative AI Daily (130K subscribers) newsletters: layout system, shared asset library, editorial visuals, and promotional sends.
Senior Product Designer
@
Leveraged Mining
2024 - 2025
Remote
Solo designer on the client portal and internal admin system for a compliance-first Bitcoin mining product, designed 0-to-1 across MVP and V1 and shipped to production. The portal now serves 300+ portal users across 40+ enterprise partnerships.
Designed the participation logging flow that lets U.S. clients document 100+ hours of business participation a year under IRS material participation rules. Around 40 customer conversations and usability tests set a sub-one-minute entry target and a neutral progress view showing what had been logged.
Built the product's design system from zero in Figma: 143 components across two versions, shared between the client portal and the admin system.
Senior Product Designer
@
Leveraged Mining
2024 - 2025
Remote
Solo designer on the client portal and internal admin system for a compliance-first Bitcoin mining product, designed 0-to-1 across MVP and V1 and shipped to production. The portal now serves 300+ portal users across 40+ enterprise partnerships.
Designed the participation logging flow that lets U.S. clients document 100+ hours of business participation a year under IRS material participation rules. Around 40 customer conversations and usability tests set a sub-one-minute entry target and a neutral progress view showing what had been logged.
Built the product's design system from zero in Figma: 143 components across two versions, shared between the client portal and the admin system.
Product Designer
@
Baims
2022 - 2024
Remote
Designed through Baims' $4.4M Series A, when the platform grew 5x in users and 9x in app downloads. Maintained and extended the platform's design system throughout.
Co-designed the Teacher Portal. Used HotJar behavioral data to find friction points and cut teacher-side operations work by 20% across content management and learner support.
Co-designed Baims Chat from 0 to 1 as the platform's in-app communication feature. Surveyed 200+ students and instructors to shape it. Around 50% of instructors adopted it over WhatsApp and Telegram.
Product Designer
@
Baims
2022 - 2024
Remote
Designed through Baims' $4.4M Series A, when the platform grew 5x in users and 9x in app downloads. Maintained and extended the platform's design system throughout.
Co-designed the Teacher Portal. Used HotJar behavioral data to find friction points and cut teacher-side operations work by 20% across content management and learner support.
Co-designed Baims Chat from 0 to 1 as the platform's in-app communication feature. Surveyed 200+ students and instructors to shape it. Around 50% of instructors adopted it over WhatsApp and Telegram.
Product Designer
@
Piqo Studio
2020 - 2022
Hybrid
Designed product UI, design systems, and launch campaigns for 15+ Web3 and DeFi clients including Skale.space, OneKey Wallet, and Kanpai Pandas, 0 to 1 inside a 5-designer studio.
Co-designed the Iconly app for web, macOS, and Windows: search, export, collections, and request flows for a 40,000-icon library. Ran several rounds of usability testing along the way. The product grew to $20K ARR with the Piqo team.
Mentored junior designers: reviewed their work and guided them through client projects.
Product Designer
@
Piqo Studio
2020 - 2022
Hybrid
Designed product UI, design systems, and launch campaigns for 15+ Web3 and DeFi clients including Skale.space, OneKey Wallet, and Kanpai Pandas, 0 to 1 inside a 5-designer studio.
Co-designed the Iconly app for web, macOS, and Windows: search, export, collections, and request flows for a 40,000-icon library. Ran several rounds of usability testing along the way. The product grew to $20K ARR with the Piqo team.
Mentored junior designers: reviewed their work and guided them through client projects.
Product Designer
@
D Agency
2018 - 2020
Hybrid
Designed 100+ screens across web and mobile for a B2B telehealth product (NDA) shipped to 8 hospitals and medical firms in Turkey and Iraq, and built its design system from zero. Worked day to day with PMs and engineers. Later extended through a hardware integration with Istanbul Medical University.
Product Designer
@
D Agency
2018 - 2020
Hybrid
Designed 100+ screens across web and mobile for a B2B telehealth product (NDA) shipped to 8 hospitals and medical firms in Turkey and Iraq, and built its design system from zero. Worked day to day with PMs and engineers. Later extended through a hardware integration with Istanbul Medical University.
Tools powering my work
Skills
Product design
UX research
Interaction design
Design systems
Prototyping
Responsive Design
User flows
Usability testing
Visual design
Information architecture
AI-Assisted Design
AI-Assisted Coding
Brand & Visual Identity
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Education
Education
Bachelor’s in English Language Teaching (ELT)
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul