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Art Director
in Product Design:
Interfaces , Branding,
Industrial Design
Oxford, England

Sergei Kondaurov
Art Director
for AI Products

12+ years in art direction across interface, brand, industrial, communication, and sound design. I work mainly on AI-driven and large-scale B2C products — from building AI assistants from scratch to developing smart devices and connected home ecosystems used by millions

Originally from Eastern Europe, I’m now based in Oxford, United Kingdom,
on the Global Talent Visa

Alice AI

Built from zero to Russia’s
#1 AI assistant

Alice AI app: assistant home screen and creative tools Alice AI app: a conversation planning a trip to Karelia

Role: Design Director & Concept Designer for Russia’s #1 virtual assistant, powered by Yandex’s proprietary GPT technology a competitor to ChatGPT, Google Gemini and DeepSeek

Metrics: Russia’s most popular AI assistant — 60M+ MAU, with a 90% user love mark

Platforms: iOS, Android, Desktop web, Mobile web, Smart TV, Smart speakers, Wearable devices, in-car systems

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10+ Types
of Smart Devices

90% market share in Russia

Yandex Station Duo Max on a desk

Smart speakers

Yandex smart speaker with a display

Smart wearables

Purple Yandex smart earbuds

Role: design Director & Concept Designer for a portfolio of 30+ smart devices, including unreleased R&D-stage hardware, competing with Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Apple HomePod

Metrics: secured 90%+ market share in Russia; launched products across CIS and MENA markets; earned multiple design awards

Types of devices: smart speakers with and without displays, portable and home smart speakers, smart headphones, experimental wearables, and in-car systems

Interfaces: Led UX design for multimodal interaction across voice, touch, visual interfaces, gestures, and LED feedback

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Smart Home

market leader in Russia

Smart Home app showing the home dashboard, rooms and connected devices

Role: design Director for an ecosystem of 40+ IoT devices, from smart bulbs to smart cameras. Led UX across all hardware products and the Smart Home app (iOS and Android), competing with global brands such as Aqara and Xiaomi

Metrics: built the platform from the ground up, making it Russia’s #1 smart home ecosystem by unit sales

40+
devices

Top-10 smart home categories: cameras, lights, plugs, switches, night lights, home security, energy management, climate control, door locks, home hubs. Take a look

Role: design Director for an ecosystem of 40+ IoT devices, from smart bulbs to smart cameras. Led UX across all hardware products and the Smart Home app (iOS and Android), competing with global brands such as Aqara and Xiaomi

Metrics: built the platform from the ground up, making it Russia’s #1 smart home ecosystem by unit sales

Top-10 smart home categories: cameras, lights, plugs, switches, night lights, home security, energy management, climate control, door locks, home hubs. Take a look

Smart TV and YaOS X

Russia’s fastest-growing
Smart TV business

Role: Design Director & Concept Designer for Russia’s first AI-integrated, fully voice-controlled TVs, powered by GPT-based technology. Competitor to Samsung, Xiaomi, TCL, and Haier

Metrics: built Yandex Smart TV from scratch and launched the first product in 2021, growing the YaOS ecosystem to nearly 6M devices. Achieved 4+ hours of daily video consumption per user on average

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