I help teams deliver digital products

I help teams design, build, and ship great digital products.

I'm a product leader focusing on lean innovation and natural human-computer interactions.

I care about outcomes over processes, love building high-performing teams, and enjoy facilitating rapid growth.

Ilya Belikin presenting to a diverse team

What People Are Saying

“Talented and effective manager with a truly strategic vision. He looks into the future and always shares his passion and ideas with the team.”
— Pavel Egorkin, COO Kamagames

“Working with Ilya was inspirational, and when he announced a UI/UX design class and workshop, I immediately signed up.”
— Fedor Korshunov, Software Engineer Team Lead Lalamove

“Dedicated business partner who has an excellent ability to visualize solutions to multi-faceted problems.”
— Oliver Rigg, Head of Broker Operating Platform CBRE

“Effectively helped with staff issues and interviews, good organizational skills. Hires only professionals and enjoys working with them.”
— Alexander Gavrik, CEO SCS Group

Projects

Much of my work is confidential: I work on future strategies. Here I share what I can in a format of short projects notes highlighting one aspect of my work at the time: finding product-market fit, designing a new brand, gathering a team, mapping a user journey, etc.

My community building, podcast, and teaching work are at Posit.

Building a community

Zoom in for product fit

Rebranding in Energy

Building a team

Mapping a journey

Wait… so what do you actually do?

People hire me to solve a problem: to develop a strategy (recently it usually about AI), to build a product or design team, to improve user experience.

I do Product Management, UX Design, and Strategy. I'm into Agile and Design Thinking as well.

I apply my skills and expertise to empower a team and ship a great product.