Summary
Jamil Lazarev is a product design leader with 17+ years of experience shaping digital products across banking, media, marketplaces and blockchain, now leading product design at a stealth AI startup. He has a track record of turning stalled programs into fast-moving products—launching an internet bank MVP in four months, building multi-brand design systems for 20+ B2B SaaS clients, and scaling design hiring, onboarding and competency programs. Jamil combines hands-on design, frontend prototyping and product management with team-building practices like OKRs, critique culture, and internal research sessions that reduced bus-factor risk. He’s shipped consumer-facing apps, enterprise trading interfaces, loyalty and wallet systems, and even proof-of-concepts in unconventional domains such as a uranium marketplace. Known for pragmatic, people-first leadership, he embeds analytics and no-code tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining design rigor. Based in Azerbaijan, he also runs side projects with tens of thousands of users and blends creative pursuits—like occasional music production—into a diverse, multidisciplinary approach to product.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philology, Bachelor's degree, Philology at Baku Slavic University, BSU
Russian, Azerbaijani, English, Turkish