Shadi Saemi

Work History

YourBest Counseling Inc.

North Vancouver, BC

06.2021 - Current

Works on features, user stories, backlog prioritization, and Agile sprints.
Represent the needs and interests of customers to design team
Create the product vision and road map and follow the development team
Collaborate with the team to ensure effective implementation of requirements.
Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with business strategy
Acting as the voice of the customer in all interaction with our technical teams
Collaborating with stakeholders

Niklife Financial Inc.

Vancouver, BC

01.2021 - 06.2021

Interview and research to identify key problem points and user persona
Translate needs into solution requirements and visualize them for tech team
Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
Create wireframes and prototype for usability test
Working with developers to gauge technical feasibility, timelines, capabilities and to stay up on latest technological advancements.
Prototype and test features that scale across both web and mobile platforms

Fidibo -The first Multi-platform E-book distributor in middle east.

Tehran, Iran

04.2017 - 04.2020

Lead multiple products simultaneously through product development lifecycle
Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with business strategy
Collaborate with marketing and development team to ensure work comes to life as amazing user experiences
Reduce complex business and customer problems down to right balance of ease of use, power, and flexibility
Works in Agile environment to continuously review business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks
Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships

FidiBook - The First E-ink Ebook Reader Device In Middle East

Tehran, Iran

05.2017 - 04.2019

Interview and capture business requirements from internal stakeholders
Evaluate and understand market, user behaviors and competition, and translate these into detailed User Stories
Create user experience artifacts including storyboards and user flows
Participate in quality assurance activities and propose development task prioritization based on QA process feedback
Create documentation (including design rules, clickable prototypes, animations) that enables software developers to build software that fosters a delightful user experience
Work closely with engineers to understand technical constraints that inform design
Perform customer research through data analysis, surveys, and customer interviews

Fidibo

Tehran, Iran

03.2015 - 06.2017

Conduct user research, prototype and test new experiences and features
Create user experience artifacts including storyboards and user flows with UX design tool
Create mock-ups at different levels of detail for use in various stages of the web and mobile app development process
Collaborate with marketing and the development team to ensure your work comes to life as amazing user experiences
Collaborate with the product teams on outlining user flows and prototyping initial wireframes
Collaborate closely with Product Managers and developers in a fast-paced agile development environment, including taking part in team ceremonies and leading design meetings
Monitored emerging UX design trends and practices for useful techniques and cutting-edge developments suitable for integration into future projects.
Analyzed user feedback to influence future UX updates, ameliorating user concerns and pain points during subsequent patch cycles.