Илья Скопин

I’m Ilya Skopin, a design leader. I build products, teams, and AI-enabled workflows. Currently Design Director at Yandex Travel. Previously: payments, productivity, and banking. From hands-on design to leading teams at scale.

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2022-present

Yandex Travel — design director

4.9 | 101k reviews | No. 1 Travel

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Started as Travel’s sole designer and built the team behind its consumer, hotelier, and business travel products, helping grow a multimillion-dollar business.

Led design strategy, brand development, and expansion into new categories. Established shared design practices and drove AI adoption to 75% across the team.

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2020-2022

Yandex Pay — principal designer

TPV | NFCp | GBV | 0 → 1

Designed Yandex Pay’s mobile and desktop checkout, NFC payments, card entry, and native payment forms for partner apps. Validated key payment flows through user research.

Created partner guidelines and Web SDK documentation, supporting expansion across 15 payment providers and major merchants as Pay reached its first 10,000 payments.

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2013-2020

As a Senior Designer at Yandex,I led the relaunch of Yandex Mail → Yandex 360 and scaled Shopping in Yandex Search. Former Principal Lead at T‑Bank and Adict

Redesigned Yandex Mail into a connected productivity experience with Calendar, video calls, and multi-account support. Unified four Mail views into one reusable component and helped increase Calendar visits by 2%.

At T-Bank, designed mortgage, account management, cashback, and spending insights. Earlier at Adict, designed and launched 12 client websites and a native-advertising product.

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