Hi, I'm Natalie.
Product Designer in fintech and Design Ops Lead.
With 9+ years of experience, I design end-to-end financial health and AI-powered experiences and lead Design Operations at Erste Group, helping teams build better, more scalable products.

Work

Move & Save Money
with Apple Fitness

2025 B2C Shipped

Turning physical activity into a financial habit, automatically. Every closed Apple Fitness ring triggers a micro-transfer to savings, inside a regulated CEE banking platform.

My role
Lead Product
Designer
Team
1 PM + UXR,
2 Engineers
Platform
Erste Bank
Platform
iOS
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Move & Save Money with Apple Fitness, product mockup

Working Capital
Simulator

2025 B2B Shipped

Translating complex liquidity data into decisions SME owners can act on.

My role
Senior Product
Designer
Team
1 PM,
2 Engineers
Platform
Erste Bank
Platform
Web
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Working Capital Simulator, product mockup

A Saving Goal
Everyone Can Set

2024 B2C Shipped

Redesigned a complex saving goals feature for 19M+ users, simplifying goal creation, progress tracking, and savings management to work at scale across three platforms.

My role
Lead Product
Designer
Team
1 PM + UXR,
4 Engineers
Platform
Erste Bank
Platform
iOS, Android,
Web
Read more
A Saving Goal Everyone Can Set, product mockup

About

Portrait of Natalie Korotaeva

9+ years designing fintech and AI products used daily by 11M+ people across CEE. I work on financial clarity, making complex money decisions feel possible, across B2B banking, consumer financial health, and enterprise AI.

Currently leading Financial Health design and Design Operations at George by Erste Bank.

Experience

George Labs by Erste Bank

Design Lead · 2022 – Present · Vienna

Leading Financial Health design and Design Operations at Erste Bank's CEE banking platform. Shipped George's first Apple finance partnership and AI advisory tools for enterprise clients.

George Labs by Erste Bank

Sr. Product Designer · 2019 – 2022 · Vienna

Designed end-to-end Financial Health for iOS and Android, and shipped George PRO onboarding (a paid B2B banking service) across app and web.

WeAreDevelopers

UX Researcher · 2018 – 2019 · Vienna

Led UX research on the management team of a global tech-talent platform and AI-powered job search product, running in-depth interviews and usability tests to shape product direction.

craftworks

AI Product Designer · 2017 – 2018 · Vienna

Sole designer on a 15-engineer team shipping ML product interfaces for ÖBB, Porsche Informatik, Andritz, and Hilfswerk, including a freight pricing tool that cut quote generation from hours to seconds.

dealmatrix.io

UX/UI Designer · 2016 – 2017 · Vienna

Designed a fintech valuation platform end-to-end (wireframes, prototypes, visuals), plus landing pages in HTML/CSS, translating multi-variable financial data into usable interfaces.

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