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Agnieszka Shkonda

Staff Product Designer @ Personio (ex-IonQ, BCG)

Rotterdam, Netherlands (+01:00 UTC) English, Polishfrom Rotterdam, Netherlands
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$99 / hour
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I had an excellent session with Agnieszka focused on enterprise UX and HR software adoption. She shared a wealth of practical insights on what truly drives large companies to adopt a new HR tool, from aligning product features with HR managers’ real needs to understanding how decision-making happens inside big organizations. Agnieszka walked me through effective research approaches to capture both HR decision makers’ and employees’ needs, and highlighted the value of close collaboration during the design phase to build trust and relevance. If you’re designing B2B or HR-focused products and want clear, actionable guidance on usability, stakeholder alignment, and enterprise research methods, I highly recommend booking a call with Agnieszka. Her experience and clarity are outstanding.

Linda Diana

Great feedback! I recommend meeting with Agnieszka.

Tomaz Suklje

Bio

I'm a Staff Product Designer at Personio, building HR software that supports thousands of European companies. With over 13 years in product design and UX research (half of which I spent in California), I've created digital products that drive user engagement and business growth across complex B2B and SaaS domains—including quantum computing, cloud infrastructure, supply chain, energy, healthcare, blockchain, and e-commerce. I specialize in building tools for technical users: developers, researchers, and engineers. I thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and excel at bridging technical depth with intuitive design. Whether it's zero-to-one product creation (as I did at BCG X) or scaling and optimizing platforms (like at IonQ), I bring a sharp product lens, a user-first approach, and strong execution capabilities. Some of my proudest accomplishments: * Quantum Computing: Spearheaded UX for IonQ’s quantum computing cloud platform—from API/CLI tools to enterprise and research management UIs. My work supported use cases across governments, national labs, and academia. * Trustana: Designed a curated B2B marketplace for Southeast Asian traders, backed by Temasek. The platform accelerated market adoption and was featured on national TV CNA feature. * Industrial Tools: Created an inspection management app and dashboard that replaced paper-based workflows for corrosion teams, streamlining operations and boosting data capture. * Real-time Inventory SaaS: Designed Propeller for MagellanX Ventures (MISC/Petronas), enabling forecasting, cutting emergency orders, and improving operational efficiency. * Built and implemented 3 design systems across organizations. * Shipped 2 businesses to market as a Venture Product Designer. * Mentored and trained 30+ designers, hiring several for enterprise teams. * I regularly research and write about emerging technologies, complex systems design, and product strategy. If you’re navigating tough design challenges in technical or high-stakes environments—or building tools that demand clarity without sacrificing complexity—I can help you get there faster, cleaner, and with stronger user impact.

Expertise

  • Career guidance

    I have been mentoring designers for quite some time now. And also shaping my career in the meantime. I have been a freelancer and full time. And I am constantly working on my brand. I can share my experience with you and advise you what can work best for you to take your career to the next level.

  • Design / UX

    13 years in product design. Fluent in engineering workflows, technical and business constraints, and high-stakes delivery. Deep expertise in complex B2B domains: quantum, cloud, supply chain, energy, blockchain, healthcare. Strong at both ends: zero-to-one at BCG X and scaling & building tools at an existing IonQ platform. Comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous & cross-functional environments—startups, enterprise, R&D. Built and scaled design systems, hired and mentored designers.

  • Idea validation

    From the features to the entire product validation, I led projects on the design front in various domains. I will help you prepare the plan and the materials needed for the validation phase. I will guide you through this process and advise you on the results of the validation.

  • Product launches

    I took part in many different product launches in the organizations I was working at. I can help you set up a strategy for how to launch a product or set of features that will work for you, for the industry, where your product is currently and type of audience you are targeting. This will ensure that you release something that you are confident about.

  • Product market fit

    Throughout my time at BCG, I worked on various projects where we were innovating on the ideas best suited for the client and market needs. I can go through this process with you where we will look at your business, your resources, market needs, innovate on few business ideas, build prototype and go validate the assumptions. I will help you analyze the results, advise on the best idea for the product market fit and create a plan of the product build.

  • User research

    In my 13 years of product design career, I was involved in user research on every project. I am using different methods depending on the resources available and what the product needs at a specific stage. I can help you choose the method, create research plan, guide you through the execution and analyze the results. I can also guide your team through the user research phase if you already have one.

Toolkit

  • Contentful logo

    Contentful

    Worked on implementing this tool into an organization and I was responsible for the migration of the content, setting up company wide content strategy and quality control of the implemented solution.

  • Figma logo

    Figma

    I am regularly using this tool in my day to day job. I am responsible for file setup, maintenance, design system creation and maintenance. Also prototyping.

  • Cursor logo

    Cursor

    I am able to prototype solutions using Cursor. Get the right styling but also get to the level of interactions. I am also using it to discover features, layouts as fast prototypes.

Experience

  • Product Future Lab

    Founder & Lead Product Designer

    Product Future Lab helps deep tech startups and enterprises design, validate, and scale products in cloud computing, quantum, HPC, SaaS, and B2B. We specialize in bridging the gap between complex technology and user adoption by making deep tech products intuitive, scalable, and market-ready. Our Services for Deep Tech Companies: 🔹 UX/UI for Technical Products – Designing seamless experiences for developer tools, SDKs, APIs, cloud platforms, and quantum computing interfaces. 🔹 Developer Experience (DX) Optimization – Improving API documentation, onboarding flows, and SDK usability to increase adoption among engineers and enterprise users. 🔹 MVP & Product Validation – Helping startups define, prototype, and validate market-ready deep tech products with real user insights. 🔹 AI & SaaS Growth Strategies – Positioning AI-driven SaaS products for scalability, user engagement, and adoption in competitive markets. 🔹 Cloud & Quantum Product Strategy – Crafting UX, UI, and product roadmaps for next-gen computing platforms, ensuring accessibility and ease of use. 📌 Looking to refine your deep tech product, improve user adoption, or scale your SaaS? Let’s connect! 📧 Contact: [email protected] 📞 1:1 Call/ Consultation: https://doodle.com/bp/agnieszkazimolag/startup-product-advise

  • IonQ

    Senior Product Designer
    •ionq.com

    As a Senior Product Designer at IonQ, I am helping shape product design strategy across a diverse range of offerings, including IonQ’s Quantum OS, Quantum Cloud (both customer-facing tools: cloud console, APIs, and internal users facing), and home page. My primary focus is on creating seamless and positive user experiences, ensuring that accessing and operating quantum computers becomes both effortless and efficient.

    Quantum Computing

  • Trustana

    Product Design - Interim

    Designed curated B2B marketplace and trade platform of verifiable, international traders for SEA market. Led design efforts helping the team to find product market fit as well as test with users Decentralized Digital Identity and Building Trade Trust in Digital Environment. Led product design development leading to marketplace launch including onboarding of the first shop owners to the platform.

  • Magellan X

    Product Design - Interim

    Designed spares inventory management multi-platform SaaS solution, currently called Propeller optimizing the ship supply chain processes. The solution helped ship owners and managers have access to real-time data around spare inventory levels, enabling tighter management. Standardized inventory management reduced the time to locate spares for onboard crews.

  • Consensys

    UX/ UI Designer

    Led the product design efforts from the conceptualization to the detailed handoff for the decentralized app suite seeking to transform marketing and discovery for Web 3.0.

  • Democracy Earth Foundation

    UX/ UI Design Intern

    Alongside the lead designer collaborated on the product design and strategy of a decentralised voting application on the Ethereum blockchain.

  • Insurmi

    UX/ UI Designer

    Responsible for crafting conversational interfaces for a white-labeled platform Insurmi designed to engage users online & generate quality leads for insurers.

  • goldfingr

    UX/ UI Designer

    - Redesign and implementation of critical features of the social and concierge mobile app which has been featured on the App Store - Led decisions about the IA of the product and its strategy - Organizing and strategizing the company fundraising - Spearheaded redesign of company website through in-depth competitive analysis

  • Ask Arvi

    UX/UI Designer

    - Designed web and mobile interfaces with the cohesive brand and product strategy for first India’s health insurance chatbot scoring as one of the 10 rising AI startups in 2018 - Conducted marketing strategy and design for the launch of the chatbot

  • Pull Technologies

    UX/ UI Designer

    - Designed web and mobile interfaces. The company is focused on networking applications and the designed app was featured on App store

  • Sailo

    UX/ UI Designer

    - Designed mobile interfaces for boat rental marketplace app that has been shipped to the App store. - My new design helped them increase their fleet to 9,000+ boats across the USA, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Sailo was mentioned in Forbes, Fox Business, WSJ, Fortune and Huffington Post. - Redesigned the web page and the dashboard and introduced new design solutions for the features such as: search system, boat page, booking system, boat request, user dashboard, booking addons, events management system, boat management system, my trips dashboard.

  • Looks App

    UX/ UI Designer

    - Designed web and mobile interfaces for a personal styling marketplace application disrupting the retail market

  • Appedemic

    UX/UI Designer

    - Designed mobile interfaces for multi platform mobile applications corresponding to business and user needs which would be directly shipped to the Appstore. Clients included: engineering, environment and design consultancy - Sweco, Dutch Hospital olvg, Dutch Center for Youth Health, Medical Center DCVerzuim Diagnostiek, Lomans, MAAT, icertified.nl,

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