I am Olga Romanova

Northwestern Mutual   |  Senior Product Designer

August 2022 - August 2024

As a Senior Product Designer, I helped to define and drive the future of the Northwestern Mutual product experience from awareness to long-term engagement for the field and the home office users. Some of my key responsibilities included the following:

• Exploring divergent design concepts through wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, creating artifacts that communicate design rationale, and advocating for a solution by presenting the work.

• Advocating for the users' perspective while adhering to Accessibility and Inclusive Design practices when collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers.

• Supporting the design experience across Field Rewards Modernization space and collaborating with cross-functional members, including Engineering, Product, Content Strategy, and UX Research.

• Working with Product Managers to conceptualize product ideas and shape them into multiple design variations, then collaboratively narrow ideas and establish requirements.

• Overseeing and supporting user research to better understand user needs and behaviors, and usability testing to see how the solutions work for users, in collaboration with UX Researchers.

• Creating production-ready design deliverables that use existing or new patterns and collaborating with Engineers to ensure our output's visual quality.

• Contributing to a creative, supportive environment and mentoring junior team members, while setting expectations within the design teams to standards of quality, and creative direction.