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Katarina PetrovKP

Katarina Petrov

Design to Code · UX & Frontend

€500/day
Berlin, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Katarina

Staff UX designer who learned to build and ship — so I can own a product from first sketch to live app. I love the early, messy, figuring-it-out phase as much as the polished final thing. Berlin-based, working with founders and teams worldwide.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • HelloFresh
    Staff UX Designer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    November 2022 - Today (3 years and 8 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Leading UX strategy and vision across enterprise systems at one of Europe's largest food-tech companies. Responsibilities include service design, product design, cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering and leadership, and advocating for user-centered design at an organizational level.
    Driving consistency and scalability through a shared design language while ensuring UX goals align with business objectives and technical feasibility.
    Pioneered the adoption of AI tools within the design workflow, helping the team adapt and evolve their processes as the tooling landscape shifted. Contributed to several major projects where automation transformed critical parts of the supply chain, working at the intersection of UX and complex operational systems.
    UX Strategy UX Design Lead Service Design
  • Delivery Hero SE
    Product Design Lead
    DIGITAL AND IT
    March 2016 - November 2022 (6 years and 8 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Product Design Lead (2020–2022)
    Led a product design team working on a B2B product, managing designers across the full project lifecycle while maintaining hands-on involvement in strategy and execution. Responsible for setting design direction, mentoring team members, and ensuring design quality aligned with business and user goals. Balanced team leadership with individual contribution, adapting the role as the team and product evolved.

    Senior Product Designer (2016–2020)
    Owned the design of consumer-facing native and web applications across one of Europe's fastest-growing food delivery platforms. Worked across the full product experience — from discovery and user research through to high-fidelity UI and handoff — at a scale reaching millions of users across multiple markets. Collaborated closely with product and engineering in a fast-paced, internationally distributed environment.
    UX Design Lead b2b Customer-facing UX design
  • Earlier Career: Web, UI & Graphic Design (1996–2016)
    Web, UI & Graphic Design
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 1996 - March 2016 (20 years and 2 months)
    Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Over 15 years of experience spanning web design, UI, graphic design, print, and advertising across agencies, studios, and in-house roles. Worked with major regional and international clients including Nissan, BMW, Mastercard, Unicredit Bank and others across branding, identity, digital and campaign work. This period built a broad creative foundation — from visual communication and art direction to early interactive and mobile design — that continues to inform a user-centered, craft-conscious approach to product design today.
    Webdesign Customer-facing UX design UI Design Graphic Design

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Education

  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Ljubljana
    2004
    Study of art and classic p4-year diploma programme in painting and visual arts. Strong foundation in composition, visual communication and creative problem-solving — disciplines that directly inform a human-centered approach to UX and product design.ainting

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