Product Design Manager

Design that moves
the work.

A walk through process, craft and outcomes: case studies from 9 years shaping fintech and regulated banking products.

Open to design leadership roles
Ofir Avitan
About

Product design leadership, hands-on.

Strategic and hands-on. 9 years of UX expertise driving product strategy for high-scale fintech and regulated banking.

01

Cross-Squad Design Leadership

Managing 7 designers across 4 autonomous business lines.

02

Unified Experience

Aligning squads and tech leads to eliminate product silos.

03

People & Process Focused

Leveraging an educational background to mentor teams and workflows.

Selected work

Case studies.

Product design Design system Fintech

Digital Loans

Coming Soon!
Product design Banking

Credit Cards

Coming Soon!
Banking

Poalim Wonder

Coming Soon!
Design system

Design System

Coming Soon!

Coming soon

Coming Soon!
Internal tools Banking

Internal Systems

Coming Soon!
Capabilities

Fluent in more than Figma.

Most design managers stop at the mockup. I don't, and in 2026, that gap is the whole point.

AI-native, not AI-curious

I build with Claude Code daily, prototyping flows, debugging logic, shipping real surfaces. For a design manager, that's not a hobby, it's a competitive edge.

Comfortable in the repo

Branches, diffs, pull requests, I read code the way I read Figma files. It closes the trust gap between design and engineering, for good.

Figma, past the basics

Variables, component APIs, the plugin and MCP ecosystem, I don't just design screens, I build the systems that let a team move fast.

Beyond the work

The work beyond the work.

Mentorship that ships careers

I actively mentor junior and aspiring product designers, helping them navigate the industry, accelerate their growth, and land their first real role.

From classroom to production

Industry mentor for the Google & Reichman University UX grad project, built on a real Hapoalim Bank challenge. One graduate joined my team; their concept now lives in our credit card workflow.

Agile without the theater

A strong advocate for Agile, embedding designers into Dailies, Planning, Demos and PIP to align stakeholders fast and remove delivery friction, not add process for its own sake.

Teaching the path I walked

Guest lecturer, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, "Psychology & UX." I share my path from junior designer to management, the learning curves and what actually sustains leadership.

Let's talk

Let's build the future.

Open to design leadership roles, partnerships, and ambitious product bets.

avitano@gmail.com · 054-429-6353
Ofir Avitan · 2026