About me
A senior product designer, dedicated to one team at a time.
I'm Gytis — I work as an embedded senior product designer, so the work gets real ownership, not just hours.
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9+ years of experience
Designing complex, data-heavy web applications
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AI native
Designing AI powered products with the help of AI design tools
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Remote from Europe
I work in English with teams across the US and Europe.
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Global overlap
Guaranteed overlap with US and EU based teams.
5 h overlap with US East · 2 h with US WestOverlap with your day
5 h with US East 09:00–14:00 ET
2 h with US West 09:00–11:00 PT
I get work done while you sleep, so there's progress to review first thing in your morning. The overlap is for calls and quick decisions, so nobody waits a day for an answer.
How I work
Strategic thinking and daily execution — from the same person.
No hand-off between a strategist and an executor. I do the thinking and the pixel-pushing myself, so nothing gets lost in translation.
✦ Strategy
Strategic oversight on every deliverable
- Ownership of product growth, not just the task in front of me
- Contributing to product strategy, not just executing the roadmap
- Clear design direction and quality bar
- Catching problems before they ship
✦ Execution
Daily execution, development-ready
- Use of AI tools to move faster without cutting corners
- Dev-ready Figma files from week one
- Over-communication on progress
- The same result oriented process on every design task
- 5+ years of experience designing AI-powered, data-heavy products
How I approach a project
Diagnosing before prescribing.
I follow the same structured process on every project, so you always know what I'm doing and why.
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Understand the problem
Map the full picture — users, business goals, technical constraints, and context.
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Define the scope
Clearly describe what needs to be done so everyone is aligned before work begins.
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Explore solutions
Generate and compare options within scope, timeline, and technical constraints.
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Deliver the design
Provide the best solution with all detail required for implementation.
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Support development
Stay close during the build. Answer questions. Catch issues early.
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Verify implementation
Review the built product against the design intent and flag any deviations.
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Measure success
Track whether the design is achieving the outcomes it was built for.
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Analyse results
Dig into what the data is showing. Surface patterns and opportunities.
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Improve
Feed learnings back into the product. Then take on the next problem.
✦ How I use AI
AI speed + human judgment
I use AI to move faster on the parts where speed matters, and stay in control myself where judgment matters. Those aren't the same parts.
✦ Speed
Where AI helps me move faster
- Drafting task descriptions and briefs
- Generating UI variations to compare
- Building interactive demos and prototypes
- Adding documentation
- Surfacing common edge cases
- Running initial accessibility audits
- Managing routine design system tasks
- Analysing larger amounts of data
✦ Expertise
Where I take the lead
- Interviewing users
- Ensuring designs fit the existing product
- Planning product strategy
- Making designs pixel-perfect
- Handling complex edge cases
- Verifying accessibility and usability standards
- Communicating with the team and stakeholders
- Ensuring dev handoff is complete
- Making critical design decisions
How I work with a team
I own the work, personally — end to end.
I've spent 9+ years designing digital products — the last 5 focused on AI-native features, fintech, enterprise platforms, and data-heavy dashboards. Toptal verified me as a top 3% product designer globally, and that's the bar I hold myself to on every project.
I like being close to the work — in Figma, in Slack, in the planning conversations — not just reviewing what lands on my desk after the fact. If you want a senior designer who owns problems end to end instead of waiting to be handed a spec, that's how I work.
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Beyond day-to-day execution
Things I regularly get pulled into, beyond shipping screens:
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Product & UX audits
Heuristic reviews, annotated and prioritized by impact.
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Accessibility
WCAG passes — useful for fintech and enterprise teams under compliance pressure.
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Design systems
Auditing and building consistency across a product.
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Process improvement
Assessing how a design team works and where it's getting stuck.
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Product strategy
Contributing at the roadmap level, not just executing it.
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MVP design
From concept to tested prototype, ready for development.
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Design workshops
Structured sessions for new feature exploration and ideation.
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Product branding
Brand identity, visual language, and marketing assets.
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Cross-functional collaboration
Comfortable working directly with engineering, marketing, and leadership — not just handing off files.
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