Sasha Grishin

Fintech Design

DEEL

Sep 2025 - Current (11 months)

I lead design across Deel’s B2B2C payments ecosystem. My team enables businesses to fund payroll, pay contractors and invoices, and distribute funds globally — with payments reconciled through robust internal tooling and delivered seamlessly to employees, EORs, and contractors. Our ambition is to evolve Deel into the next global payments ecosystem powering borderless work. Examples of impact include: • Transforming contractor payouts into a B2C-grade mobile experience • Expanding wallet and card capabilities with multi-currency cards, crypto, etc. • Simplifying business payment flows to make them more trustworthy and frictionless

Antler Advisor

Antler

Feb 2023 - Mar 2026 (3 years 2 months)

As an advisor to founders building products with Antler (antler.co), I provide guidance on product design, brand design, and advice on how to design accessible and safe product experiences.

Director Of Product Design

Bumble

Feb 2021 - Mar 2026 (5 years 2 months)

Scaled and led the design team as the portfolio grew to five apps, delivering Bumble, Lumen, Chappy, Huggle, and Badoo apps & brands → Contributed to $2.2B IPO Led early design for Bumble-For-Friends, company’s key bet → Validated product–market fit, informing company’s acquisition strategy Directed multiple redesigns across Bumble, Badoo, and Chappy, from strategy to execution.  → Tangible improvements in UX consistency, user engagement, and retention Redesigned badoo.com and launched first in-house Badoo iOS app. → Enabled shift from web-first to mobile-first platform strategy. Led Design Systems program aligned with Bumble Tech’s vision → Increased delivery velocity and reduced maintenance costs Embedded accessible practices across

Head Of Design

Bumble

Jul 2020 - Feb 2021 (8 months)

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Head Of Design

MagicLab

Jan 2018 - Jul 2020 (2 years 7 months)

MagicLab is a growing family of brands that built, owns, and operates Badoo, Bumble, Chappy, and Lumen. Our group shares a foundation of technology, talent, and experience that accelerates and compounds our long-term growth. We are a global team of brilliant product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and researchers who enable our platforms to scale in our mission to create life-changing moments by building relationships. Leading a team of 20 product-, marketing and content-designers. We are designing 4 products (Badoo, Bumble, Lumen and Chappy) across 4 platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile & Desktop web) supporting them with strong visual identities and marketing projects made in-house.

Design Team Lead

Badoo

May 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 8 months)

Leading a team of 12 designers in one of the biggest dating project. Key responsibilities include: deliver best possible designs in very tight time slots, team management, leading a process of designing new features & improving existing apps on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Mobile Web platforms, recruitment of new designers, growing the team. Team currently consists of 12 people which are divided into 2 groups: graphic and product design.

Senior Product Designer

Badoo

Jun 2013 - Apr 2015 (1 year 11 months)

Badoo is a dating-focused social networking service. The service has over 200 million users in 190 countries who speak 46 languages. http://badoo.com/ http://www.hotornot.com/ — Managing design team & building design process — Lead iOS designer of Badoo & Hot-or-Not apps — Lead web designer of Hotornot.com

Interactive Art Director

Look At Media

Jun 2010 - May 2013 (3 years)

Look At Media is a successful independent digital media company with total monthly audience over 6 500 000 people. It unites several popular web-sites: Lookatme.ru, Furfur.me, The-village.ru and Wonderzine.com. The sites cover fashion, beauty, contemporary culture & technology, urbanism and local entrepreneurship. — Launched several major online magazines with over 6 millions of unique monthly users in total (www.lookatme.ru, www.the-village.ru, www.furfur.me, www.wonderzine.ru & others) — Co-founder & former art director of FURFUR Magazine, www.furfur.me — Managed design process in editorial teams of 2 online magazines (the Village & Furfur) — Designed & developed in-house online publishing platform

Product Designer

Theory and Practice

Aug 2009 - May 2010 (10 months)

Web Designer

FIRMA AGENCY

Jun 2008 - Jun 2010 (2 years 1 month)

FIRMA Agency is one of the most famous Russian creative agencies, the company specialises in branding, digital advertisement and video production. http://www.firmafamily.com/ — Digital and identity project for FMCG, fashion and corporate brands. — Worked for: Capital Jets, Denis Simachev, Mark Buxton Perfume, Pure Joy Fashion, Eristoff Vodka, Veda Vodka, Organic Films, Business Relations, Drive Dance Project, Pioner Cinema, Gymnastika and others.

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Web Designer

SUP Fabrik

Jan 2007 - Jan 2008 (1 year 1 month)

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