A rare intersection
This role needs someone who reads the backend spec, opens the terminal, and ships what they draw. That intersection is rare.
Built for day one
Design as fast as you build.
Marina gives your product institutional design memory: patterns designed once, shipped as code, and enforced by agents, so the same UI debt never slows your team twice.
SEE THE EVIDENCE ›§01 · The hiring problem
First design hire is the hardest hire.
Especially for a product like this.
With AI, product now ships faster than design can keep up. Most designers answer with more mockups. The gap keeps widening, and the interface pays. Exploitable by any competitor with taste.
Pretty screens
Polished mockups that fall apart on real data, edge cases, and empty states. Taste without systems is decoration.
Design stops at handoff
The file is perfect, the build drifts, and the same violation is fixed, shipped… and born again in the next sprint.
§02 · How I work
Same method.
Applied to design.
Move from chasing screens to building institutional design memory, at warp speed.
01
Ingest & index everything
Reads the backend spec, the codebase, the product context, before opening a design tool.
02
Detect root causes, not symptoms
Designs at the pattern level, not the screen level. One pattern, every instance covered.
03
Remediate in context
Ships React in your stack: tokens, components, conventions. Not a Figma link and a prayer.
04
Enforce what was learned
Encodes the design system as agent-readable rules. The violation never recurs.
§03 · The human layer
Software is built by people.
Design them in.
Speaks all three languages
Product, engineering, and marketing. Fluently, in the same sprint, without a translator.
Trust, under load
Leads a competitive acrobatics team. Building trust fast, when the stakes are physical, is a trained skill. Risk appetite: calibrated.
Systems over screens
Built a 200+ component design system from scratch, published as an npm package, consumed directly by engineering.
Starts from nothing
First designer, no brief, no process. Hand her an undefined problem and a shipped system comes back.
Makes complex things land
Lectures on Generative AI to 200 students a year. If it works on a room of beginners, it works on a boardroom.
Taste with a track record
Campaigns for Lancôme and Guinness, then fintech platforms moving real money. The eye is trained. The stack is current.
Meet Pi’s first design hire*
MARINA
I had two options: apply on LinkedIn like a normal person, or clone your website and hide my CV inside a vulnerability report. You’re looking at my decision-making process. Claude has read my entire body of work: every system, every shipped pattern, every campaign. Ask it anything, and get answers in seconds, not interview rounds.
*pending remediation approval
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LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE · built once · still standing
Contact.
- linkedin.com/in/marinarudinsky
- Secure line
- +972-54-588-8471
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