Hey, I'm Savvas
Building scalable experiences for complex products.
I'm a Product Designer in Thessaloniki, leading design at Car.gr Group, Greece's largest online classifieds group. Three marketplaces: Car.gr (5M+ monthly users, 15M+ listings), Plot.gr (360K+ property listings), and Goride.gr, the country's first carpooling platform, which I took from a blank file to launch.
I work both sides of each one — the tooling professionals use to manage inventory at volume, and the search and discovery flows everyone else uses to find one thing among millions. The two rarely want the same interface. Reconciling them is most of the job. I lead three designers and partner with 14 engineers across three squads. At that ratio you don't scale by drawing more screens, so I own three design systems and treat tokens, documentation and handoff as design work. Constraints before pixels. Accessibility as a baseline, not an audit.
I started in print — typesetting books and designing 200+ published covers, then ending up responsible for the publisher's websites. The digital problems turned out to be the interesting ones. I still design outside consumer products: monitoring dashboards and installer apps for energy infrastructure, where an interface mistake has consequences in a physical substation.
Outside of work I'm rarely at a desk. I like putting myself in rooms with people I don't know yet, I travel as often as I can, and I keep a close eye on what's happening in the world. Open to relocating within the EU and beyond.
I'm a Product Designer in Thessaloniki, leading design at Car.gr Group, Greece's largest online classifieds group. Three marketplaces: Car.gr (5M+ monthly users, 15M+ listings), Plot.gr (360K+ property listings), and Goride.gr, the country's first carpooling platform, which I took from a blank file to launch.
I work both sides of each one — the tooling professionals use to manage inventory at volume, and the search and discovery flows everyone else uses to find one thing among millions. The two rarely want the same interface. Reconciling them is most of the job. I lead three designers and partner with 14 engineers across three squads. At that ratio you don't scale by drawing more screens, so I own three design systems and treat tokens, documentation and handoff as design work. Constraints before pixels. Accessibility as a baseline, not an audit.
I started in print — typesetting books and designing 200+ published covers, then ending up responsible for the publisher's websites. The digital problems turned out to be the interesting ones. I still design outside consumer products: monitoring dashboards and installer apps for energy infrastructure, where an interface mistake has consequences in a physical substation.
Outside of work I'm rarely at a desk. I like putting myself in rooms with people I don't know yet, I travel as often as I can, and I keep a close eye on what's happening in the world. Open to relocating within the EU and beyond.
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Experience
February 2022 – Present
Lead Product Designer · Full-time
Greece's largest online classifieds group, operating three consumer marketplaces:
Car.gr — automotive, parts and equipment · 5M+ monthly users · 15M+ active listings
Plot.gr — real estate · 360K+ listings from agencies and private owners
Goride.gr — Greece's first carpooling platform · launched Sept 2024
Lead Product Designer · Jan 2025 – Present
Lead the product design function across three marketplaces serving 5M+ monthly users, managing two product designers and one design intern.
Led the Plot.gr v2 redesign end-to-end — rebuilding map-based search, the listing experience across four listing types and three viewer roles, and a 13-section professional panel spanning two account tiers and three platforms. Shipping 2026.
Act as design counterpart to 14 engineers across three squads at a ~1:5 designer-to-engineer ratio, requiring systems and documentation to scale beyond direct design coverage.
Own three product design systems — components, semantic tokens, dark mode and accessibility standards — one per marketplace.
Own experience strategy across web, mobile web and native app surfaces, translating ambiguous business goals into shippable product direction with product, engineering and business stakeholders.
Built a design-to-code pipeline connecting Figma directly to the engineering workflow, enabling implementation from source components rather than static specs and shortening design-QA cycles.
Set quality standards and mentor designers, ensuring consistency of patterns and interaction models across product squads.
Senior Product Designer — UI/UX · Feb 2023 – Dec 2024
Led end-to-end design of Goride.gr from 0→1, Greece's first carpooling platform — UX, UI, branding and visual identity, from concept to launch.
Designed and shipped core marketplace experiences at national scale: search, filtering, listing detail, onboarding and responsive flows.
Designed high-volume seller tooling for professional dealers and brokers, reducing the effort required to publish and maintain large inventories.
Built the first versions of the design systems and introduced standardised UX research and validation practice.
Collaborated closely with engineers and product owners to align user needs with business and technical constraints.
Product Designer — UI/UX & Research · Feb 2022 – Jan 2023
Founded the product design discipline as the company's first designer, establishing workflows, tooling and documentation from scratch.
Redesigned legacy areas of the platform, improving usability, clarity and visual consistency.
Conducted foundational research — user interviews, personas and journey mapping — to inform product direction.
February 2022 – Present
Lead Product Designer · Full-time
Greece's largest online classifieds group, operating three consumer marketplaces:
Car.gr — automotive, parts and equipment · 5M+ monthly users · 15M+ active listings
Plot.gr — real estate · 360K+ listings from agencies and private owners
Goride.gr — Greece's first carpooling platform · launched Sept 2024
Lead Product Designer · Jan 2025 – Present
Lead the product design function across three marketplaces serving 5M+ monthly users, managing two product designers and one design intern.
Led the Plot.gr v2 redesign end-to-end — rebuilding map-based search, the listing experience across four listing types and three viewer roles, and a 13-section professional panel spanning two account tiers and three platforms. Shipping 2026.
Act as design counterpart to 14 engineers across three squads at a ~1:5 designer-to-engineer ratio, requiring systems and documentation to scale beyond direct design coverage.
Own three product design systems — components, semantic tokens, dark mode and accessibility standards — one per marketplace.
Own experience strategy across web, mobile web and native app surfaces, translating ambiguous business goals into shippable product direction with product, engineering and business stakeholders.
Built a design-to-code pipeline connecting Figma directly to the engineering workflow, enabling implementation from source components rather than static specs and shortening design-QA cycles.
Set quality standards and mentor designers, ensuring consistency of patterns and interaction models across product squads.
Senior Product Designer — UI/UX · Feb 2023 – Dec 2024
Led end-to-end design of Goride.gr from 0→1, Greece's first carpooling platform — UX, UI, branding and visual identity, from concept to launch.
Designed and shipped core marketplace experiences at national scale: search, filtering, listing detail, onboarding and responsive flows.
Designed high-volume seller tooling for professional dealers and brokers, reducing the effort required to publish and maintain large inventories.
Built the first versions of the design systems and introduced standardised UX research and validation practice.
Collaborated closely with engineers and product owners to align user needs with business and technical constraints.
Product Designer — UI/UX & Research · Feb 2022 – Jan 2023
Founded the product design discipline as the company's first designer, establishing workflows, tooling and documentation from scratch.
Redesigned legacy areas of the platform, improving usability, clarity and visual consistency.
Conducted foundational research — user interviews, personas and journey mapping — to inform product direction.
June 2024 – June 2026
Senior Product Designer · Contract
Senior Product Designer · Contract
June 2024 – June 2026
February 2020 – January 2022
Multimedia Designer — Entry-Level Product Designer · Remote
Multimedia Designer — Entry-Level Product Designer · Remote
February 2020 – January 2022
December 2017 – September 2019
Graphic Designer · Full-time
Graphic Designer · Full-time
December 2017 – September 2019
Experience
February 2022 – Present
Lead Product Designer · Full-time
Greece's largest online classifieds group, operating three consumer marketplaces:
Car.gr — automotive, parts and equipment · 5M+ monthly users · 15M+ active listings
Plot.gr — real estate · 360K+ listings from agencies and private owners
Goride.gr — Greece's first carpooling platform · launched Sept 2024
Lead Product Designer · Jan 2025 – Present
Lead the product design function across three marketplaces serving 5M+ monthly users, managing two product designers and one design intern.
Led the Plot.gr v2 redesign end-to-end — rebuilding map-based search, the listing experience across four listing types and three viewer roles, and a 13-section professional panel spanning two account tiers and three platforms. Shipping 2026.
Act as design counterpart to 14 engineers across three squads at a ~1:5 designer-to-engineer ratio, requiring systems and documentation to scale beyond direct design coverage.
Own three product design systems — components, semantic tokens, dark mode and accessibility standards — one per marketplace.
Own experience strategy across web, mobile web and native app surfaces, translating ambiguous business goals into shippable product direction with product, engineering and business stakeholders.
Built a design-to-code pipeline connecting Figma directly to the engineering workflow, enabling implementation from source components rather than static specs and shortening design-QA cycles.
Set quality standards and mentor designers, ensuring consistency of patterns and interaction models across product squads.
Senior Product Designer — UI/UX · Feb 2023 – Dec 2024
Led end-to-end design of Goride.gr from 0→1, Greece's first carpooling platform — UX, UI, branding and visual identity, from concept to launch.
Designed and shipped core marketplace experiences at national scale: search, filtering, listing detail, onboarding and responsive flows.
Designed high-volume seller tooling for professional dealers and brokers, reducing the effort required to publish and maintain large inventories.
Built the first versions of the design systems and introduced standardised UX research and validation practice.
Collaborated closely with engineers and product owners to align user needs with business and technical constraints.
Product Designer — UI/UX & Research · Feb 2022 – Jan 2023
Founded the product design discipline as the company's first designer, establishing workflows, tooling and documentation from scratch.
Redesigned legacy areas of the platform, improving usability, clarity and visual consistency.
Conducted foundational research — user interviews, personas and journey mapping — to inform product direction.
June 2024 – June 2026
Senior Product Designer · Contract
February 2020 – January 2022
Multimedia Designer — Entry-Level Product Designer · Remote
December 2017 – September 2019
Graphic Designer · Full-time
Education
October 2013 – July 2016
Bachelor Degree in Digital Design — Honours
University Of Central Lancashire
Creative thinking, typography, composition, motion — learned before AI could generate a first draft. Knowing how to make something from nothing is what lets me now judge what a tool hands back.
November 2016 – July 2017
Military Service
Hellenic Army — Special Forces
Key Capabilities
End-to-end product design
Design Systems & DesignOps
User Experience Design Strategy
AI-Augmented Design Workflows
Complex Workflow & Dashboard UX
Branding, visual identity design
Accessibility Design (WCAG 2.1 AA)
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Tools
Figma
Figma
Design
Framer
Framer
Web
Claude
Claude
AI-assisted workflows
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
Research & writing
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity
Behavioural analytics
Notion
Notion
Documentation
Asana
Asana
Creating & managing tasks
Slack
Slack
Communication
Adobe Suite
Adobe Suite
Design & video production
Canva
Canva
Quick design assets