Anton Lebed

Product Leadership & Digital Transformation

Fifteen years leading the product, design, and engineering teams behind AI, SaaS, cybersecurity, neurotech, market research, and consumer platforms used by tens of millions of users worldwide.

Impact at a glance

Skills, domains & craft

Skills

  • Design Leadership & Vision
  • Product Strategy
  • Digital Transformation
  • AI Product Strategy
  • Design-Led Product Organisation
  • Executive & Board Alignment
  • P&L & Budget Ownership
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Cross-Cultural Team Building

Domains

  • Neurotech
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Wearables
  • Cybersecurity
  • PCI-DSS & Compliance
  • Payments & Fintech
  • Enterprise SaaS & Platforms
  • Consumer Mobile Apps
  • Customer Support & Service Platforms

Product Design Craft

  • Design Systems at Scale
  • User-Behaviour Research
  • Interaction & UI Design
  • AI-Enabled Product Design
  • Service Design
  • Design Ops
  • Design-Led Front-End Dev
  • Accessibility (WCAG)

Recent roles

Apr 2024 – Present Barcelona, Spain · Remote

Senior Platform Manager

Glass, Lewis & Co.

Started as Senior Design Consultant (2024), appointed Senior Platform Manager (2025).

Own design strategy and the transformation agenda for the global governance and proxy-advisory platform — partnering with executive and product leadership to modernise legacy workflows, embed AI-enabled experiences, and tie design investment to business outcomes.

Mar 2020 – Feb 2024 Barcelona / Dublin · Remote

Platform Design Lead

VikingCloud

Started as Product Design Lead (Sysnet, 2020), promoted to Platform Design Lead (VikingCloud, 2022).

Directed design and UX for cybersecurity and PCI-DSS products (web, mobile, desktop) — leading team leads across 11 product lanes, 10M+ users, and a $2M+ budget. Raised UX maturity Level 1→3 through research, design-ops, and a design system, plus a full Material Design 3 migration and org-wide WCAG 2.2. Earlier led the SAIR SMB platform — serving 9 of the 10 largest payment providers — lifting mobile uptake 600%+ and cutting help-desk opex 4% yearly.

Nov 2016 – Mar 2020 Dublin, Ireland · Hanoi, Vietnam

Product Design Lead

EMOTIV

Started as Design Lead in Hanoi (2016), promoted to Product Owner & Design Lead in Dublin (2019).

Led product ownership and design org-wide, anchored on Emotiv LABS, a first-of-its-kind remote EEG platform — growing engagement 250%+ and capturing 10,000+ hours of research data. Earlier built a multi-disciplinary team in Vietnam from scratch across neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, and award-winning wearables — driving 3× revenue and a patented BCI visualisation system.

Certifications

Executive Learning Path

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) · 2023-2024 (6 month)

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Education

BA (Hons) Visual Communications Design

IADT, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland · 2008–2012

  • BTEC Higher National Diploma, Graphic Design & Illustration Ballyfermot College · 2006–2008
  • National Diploma, Animation Ballyfermot College · 2005

Background

Anton Lebed

Born in Ukraine, raised in Ireland, and shaped by almost two decades of work across the globe. I've built teams from the ground up and led across disciplines, cultures, and time zones — pragmatic, endlessly curious, and energised by bringing people and disciplines together.

Languages

  • Ukrainian — Native
  • English — Fluent
  • Spanish — Intermediate
  • Japanese — Beginner (Actively learning)

Can also mumble in Vietnamese, Catalan and French.

Interests

  • Sailing & Cycling
  • Board Games
  • Analogue Audio Synths
  • Single-Board Computers
  • 3D Printing
  • Record Collecting