Radu Vucea ⭐️

Leading AR/VR Design @ Reality Labs

Mento Design Academy

Our mission is to help young professionals and career-switchers transition faster and smoother to a career in UX, UI, or Product Design by teaching the right skills, the right way.

Founder

MYBENEFITS

Advisor & Investor

FlairMakers

ixperi

Building a Digital Product Design Studio has been a dream of mine for a long time.

In early 2021, I finally decided to give it a go, and I co-founded ixperi with the mission of creating an elite design team that could deliver exceptional quality and impact.

In just three years, completely bootstrapped, my team and I:

→ Grew the studio to 13 stellar Product Designers and Product Managers
→ Built a fantastic culture of learning, development, and excellence through mentorship and coaching
→ Went from $0 to $1M in yearly revenue
→ Designed and delivered for high growth start-ups like Fresha, FlowX and Jellysmack

Co-Founder, Exit in 2023

Actio

Chief Design Officer

VP, Product Design

Fitbit (now part of Google)

In my role of Product Design Manager at Fitbit, I was initially in charge of building from the ground up and leading the whole design team in Bucharest.

In my three years in this role I have:

→ Built the Product Design team in Bucharest, 15 strong, influencing the headcount strategy to bring in key roles such as UX Research and Design Ops.
→ Created an amazing design culture, recognized company-wide, based on transparency, authenticity, trust, and support, which enabled shipping successful products while maintaining a near-zero attrition rate.
→ Established processes and opportunities that enabled team growth, such as reviews, critiques, and knowledge sharing sessions and events such as Learning Friday and Friday Speaker Series.
→ Influenced the company roadmap and strategy to ship the first line of Fitbit products for kids.
→ Shipped several products that had a revenue and company strategy impact, such as Active Zone Minutes and Fitbit Premium, the latter bringing in over 1,000,000 subscribers in under one year.

Product Design Manager

While in my role as a Senior Product Designer at Fitbit I owned the development of the Fitbit App Gallery from the ground up.

Initially meant to support our first smartwatch, the Ionic, with custom content that users could download, it now supports almost a dozen Fitbit smart devices, counts over 12,000 apps, and watch faces, all of which have been downloaded over 245 Million times.

The Fitbit App Gallery also attracted a thriving community of over 1,000 developers, many of them creating a steady stream of income through creating content for Fitbit.

Senior Product Designer

Vector Watch

While in my role at Vector Watch I wore many hats, as any does in a startup.

From redesigning the company's website with a goal to increase sales — to creating marketing assets in partnership with our marketing department to create awareness, no day was the same.

My most significant achievement, however, has been creating the Vector Developer Portal from the ground up, an easy-to-use web-based tool anyone could use to create a custom watch face or app for their Vector Watch.

It was exceptionally received, gathering over 1800 content creators and over 3000 watch faces and apps in just a few months.

Vector Watch was acquired in 2017 by Fitbit, and I went to be a Product Designer and Design Manager for them.

Product Designer

Adobe

In my time at Adobe, I moved from a Graphic Designer role in the marketing department to a Visual Designer role for the same product and, ultimately, for the last two years, to a Product Designer role as part of the innovation team tasked with validating next-generation products for Adobe.

Through a Lean Startup methodology we were validating product ideas and opportunities, at a fast pace, employing user interviews, prototyping and usability testing, working within a cross-functional team of developers, product managers and designers.

The most notable achievement is validating the MVP for what would become Adobe Stock and the Libraries feature inside Photoshop, Illustrator and other five Adobe CC products.

Various

Freelance Digital Designer

I am a Senior Design Executive, Investor, and Advisor who began his career back in 2005. Since then, I had the opportunity to work for startups, design studios, and big brands alike, having built products and design teams from scratch for companies like Adobe and Fitbit.

More recently, I served as Chief Design Officer for Berlin-based start-up Actio. With a drive for entrepreneurship, I founded my own Product Design Studio back in 2020 and grew that to a 7 figure yearly revenue in less than two years, exiting in late 2023. I now serve as an advisor and investor for several tech start-ups across the world.

My happy place is helping other designers grow and create stellar work. Having hired and mentored hundreds of designers to date, I'm currently focused on scaling up my Design Academy, founded three years ago.

Feel free to contact me for the following:
* Public speaking opportunities (panels, podcasts, events, corporate training)
* Advisory roles on Product Design
* Opportunities on the level of Co-Founder or Senior Design Leadership

Make sure to check my recommendations on my profile here if you'd like to know what it's like to work with me.

Salt & Pepper

www.saltandpepper.co

Salt & Pepper is a global tech consultancy and software development company driven by the desire to impact the tech scenery one great product at a time. 

We help global enterprises and startups grow their business through innovation, design & technology. 

Passion and vision – the salt and pepper of our work – the ingredients that determine us daily to take the risk, to challenge ourselves and to provide that perfect solution. 

Let's build that dream!

CEO & Co-Founder

Spicy Ventures

We started Salt & Pepper because, in the early days, we didn't have a product idea we were passionate enough about to pursue ourselves. Instead, we decided to help founders and enterprise companies bring their product ideas to life.

However, our passion for products and startups only grew stronger.

Spicy Ventures is born from this passion. 

Leveraging over 8 years of experience in building digital products for global brands, we are dedicated to helping early-stage startups grow and succeed.

Assetto

Co-Founder

#defineSchool

www.defineschool.ro

With #defineSchool we want to help create the next generation of tech entrepreneurs for Romania! 

This is a 6 days program dedicated to students and young professionals with ages between 20 and 26 years who are interested in launching a startup. During the boot camp participants have the opportunity to learn directly from the experience of well-known IT leaders and successful entrepreneurs.

9 Editions | 400+ Participants | 65+ Speakers | 20+ Success Stories

Cluj Startups

Cluj Startups mission is to promote the startups based in Cluj and the events related to tech entrepreneurship taking place in our city.

Member

Prepino

Prepino's mission is to create a new, integrated way of cooking by connecting all steps in the consumer journey in one app. From discovery, to planning, shopping for groceries, and cooking, our users will find the entire process easier and more joyful, when using Prepino. Made with ♥ and Salt & Pepper :).

Techsylvania

The biggest tech event in Transylvania. 24-hour Connected Devices Hackathon & 2-day Conference. June 6th –9th 2015

Hackathon Coordinator

OSUT

Auditor

President

red to blue

Mobile Application Developer

#defineCluj

CEO & Founder

CEO at Salt & Pepper | Love building things that matter

Co-founder and CEO at Salt & Pepper - a full-service software development company driven by the desire to impact the tech scenery one great product at a time. We help global enterprises and startups grow their business through innovation, design & technology. 

Reach out via email at hello@saltandpepper.co to learn how our services can help your company.

Software Engineer, Entrepreneur & Founder passionate about building things that matter: teams, products, initiatives

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