Scaling Teams, Systems & Strategic Impact
About
I help design, product, and engineering teams move faster—with clarity, purpose, and measurable results. With 15+ years at the intersection of digital product design, organizational strategy, and operational leadership, I build the conditions where creativity can scale, systems run smoothly, and product vision becomes reality.
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- Strategic by Nature. Creative by Craft. Operational at Scale.
Designing and delivering great products in enterprise environments isn't just about talent—it's about navigating ambiguity, alignment gaps, and organizational drag. I specialize in turning those challenges into momentum.
Design & Product Leadership
Product
Shaping design vision, leading hands-on UX/UI delivery, and translating ideas into validated outcomes.
DesignOps & Operational Enablement
Operations
Building systems, rituals, and workflows that drive alignment, reduce friction, and accelerate delivery across product teams.
Team Building & Coaching
Leadership
Hiring, mentoring, and enabling high-performing teams to work with purpose and resilience across global orgs.
Cross-functional Alignment
Collaboration
Connecting the dots between design, product, engineering, and leadership to keep strategy, process, and people in sync.
How I do it
- Turning Complexity Into Clarity.
When I partner with teams, I don't just look at the design practice—I look at the entire product ecosystem. That includes product strategy, team dynamics, operational workflows, and the cultural environment shaping how work gets done.
Where does the product or design practice need support?
Strategy
I evaluate how clearly strategy is defined, how teams are structured, and how aligned design, product, and engineering are. Is there a shared vision? Are priorities clear? Are teams operating at their full potential?
What are the pain points?
Evaluation
Often, it's fragmentation, lack of clarity, or reactive decision-making. Teams are spread thin. Designers feel blocked. Product managers don't have strategic space. Delivery slows down.
What are the real challenges?
Diagnostics
I look deeper to identify core blockers like unclear ownership, missing systems, misaligned incentives, or processes that don't scale. Fixing the surface without diagnosing the root only delays failure.
What is working well?
Management
Every team has strengths—rituals that work, motivated people, proven processes. I find those assets and build on them. Change doesn't have to mean disruption. Often, it means amplifying what's already there.
Selected Projects & Partnerships
Highlights of real impact through design, systems, and strategy.
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KomgoThe Largest Multi-Bank Trade Finance Platform -
Spruce IDVerifiable digital credentials built on global standards -
GivethFundraising platform using blockchain technology -
DAppNodeInfrastructure for the decentralized world -
SizeDeFi's fixed-rate lending marketplace for any maturity -
PairwiseCommunity-signaling and decision-making tool
Komgo
Komgo is the leading software development and technology services company transforming the trade finance industry.
- Design Lead
- Product Design
Spruce ID
SpruceID is building a future where users can control their identity and personal data across all digital interactions. Powering the entire lifecycle of digital credentials – from issuance to verification.
- Product Design
Giveth
Giveth offers innovative open-source solutions built on blockchain technology, which is inherently decentralized. Pioneering and experimenting with decentralized governance and communication techniques and supporting their adoption by other communities.
- Design Lead
- Product Design
- Governance
DAppNode
Dappnode is a web3 infrastructure manager, ready for you to deploy and manage your validators and nodes. An operating system that allows you to host decentralized apps in a truly decentralized way.
- UI Design
Size Credit
Size is a fixed-rate credit marketplace built on an order book where offers are expressed like yield curves, allowing efficient and continuous pricing across markets and maturities. Risk is siloed, allowing for composability and broad support of different collateral types.
- Branding
- Product Design
Pairwise
Pairwise is a community-signaling and decision-making tool that makes allocating capital more transparent, inclusive and impactful. A decentralized app (DApp) designed to allow stakeholders signal how they think funds should be distributed to various projects involved.
- Strategy
- Product Design
Other clients I worked for
- ENS
- Optimism
- Nimbora
- Aragon
- BrightID
- Consensys
- Panvala
- Assymetry Finance
- Token Engineering Academy
- Ethereum Foundation
- Stryng
- Rotki
- GraphOps
Zied Brini
Enterprise Delivery Lead
Marko is a senior, versatile product design leader who is keen to find the right user experience for our customers and a great team player to collaborate with.
Ken Timsit
Strategy, business development, software sales
His most impressive strengths : mastery of product design methodologies and thought process; rigorous management of team work and team engagement (team routines, meeting facilitation, management of roles and responsibilities); drive to get things done.
Matt Tabin
CEO at 2am.tech
Marko is a dedicated team player that delivers and puts his all into any product or project he is working on. He is a designer who gets the user experience and has the ability to make creativity work pragmatically when needed.
Alexander Kostura
Strategic Partnerships
Marko is a thoughtful colleague who leads with design expertise, business acumen, and empathy. With his commitment to excellence and collaborative spirit, he would be a valuable addition to any team.
Let's Build What's Next
Whether you're building your next product, scaling your team, or untangling design complexity, let's talk.