Ugo Ifezue's Resume

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Product Design Lead at Nestcoin

October 2021 - March 2025

Led design of InstantPay, a cross‑border instant payment feature serving 20+ markets; settlement time reduced from 15 min to 58 seconds.
Spearheaded a payment automation feature that reduced manual errors and increased transaction throughput by 85%.
Built and launched a flagship B2B trading platform for high-value merchants processing $ 5 M+ monthly escrow transactions.
Collaborated across engineering, research, and product teams to build scalable design systems that drove delivery speed and consistency.
Conducted user research to identify key friction points and guide product direction, improving usability scores by 27%.
Mentored junior designers, established a product design process, and championed a design culture rooted in feedback and impact.

August 2019 - September 2021

Designed a peer-to-peer payment network that scaled to $20M in transactions in 12 months.
Created an interactive educational module within the app, improving retention by 30%.
Scaled the design team, hiring and mentoring designers while establishing a design system that improved efficiency.
Co-created a 2-year vision and design language to guide other teams as we built out a mini apps store for 3rd party integrations
Led moderated user interviews and in-app surveys to shape feature design and onboarding improvements

September 2017 - August 2019

Designed an AR interface for Microsoft HoloLens used by orthopaedic surgeons in experimental training programs.
Built a virtual property exploration experience that increased qualified real estate inquiries by 18% within 3 months.
Conducted task-based usability studies and user walkthroughs to iterate on interaction models and reduce the learning curve.

April 2017 - May 2018

Designed and shipped an Ethereum mobile wallet, contributing to a $7M ICO fundraising target.
Crafted UX of ride-sharing app, Dollaride, for New York commuters, reducing ride booking friction by 22%.
Collaborated with users through prototype testing and remote surveys to refine ride-booking flows.

October 2016 - April 2017

Created an iPad interface for cosmetic consultations, enabling doctors to map surgery plans visually with patients, reducing consultation time by 15%.
Designed a web app for matching medical graduates with US hospitals, improving applicant matching efficiency by 30%.

April 2013 - March 2016

Redesigned and shipped the mobile site serving 4 million+ SMBs, resulting in 20% improvement in conversion rates.
Collaborated with Facebook engineers on a regional project for a lightweight, CSS-only storefront for low-bandwidth markets, increasing access and usability across 200,000+ vendor pages.

LEADERSHIP & SKILLS