Antonija Pek

Lead Product Designer who ships code

Helsinki, Finland, EU right to work, remote hi@apek.me +358 40 027 5564 apek.me linkedin.com/in/antonijapek github.com/antonijap

Lead Product Designer who writes the production code. Fifteen years at Yousician, Wolt, Nosto and three AI startups. Right now I own the core app experience on GuitarTuna (100M+ downloads, 20 million monthly users), tuning and everything people do with a song, and I lead design and frontend on the rewrite from Unity to React Native: I set up the design system and Storybook, write the frontend with AI-assisted coding, and this year ran the roadmap with the tech lead because we had no PM. On the side I built Vocabbie, an AI language tutor, alone from brand to App Store to paying subscribers in five countries. My own agent runs on the Claude Agent SDK. I design with PostHog open, prototype in the real stack, and put every idea in front of testers before it reaches a roadmap. A computer nerd who loves things that look good, work well, and can be measured. Also the person who put a Super Mario clone in her portfolio footer and still cannot beat her girlfriend's high score.

Lead Product Designer, Design Engineer at Yousician, GuitarTuna

2024 - present

Lead designer for the GuitarTuna mobile app, the most downloaded tuning app in the world with 100M+ downloads and 20 million monthly users.

  • Own the core app experience: tuning, and everything people do with a song, from picking one to playing it.
  • Lead design and frontend for the rewrite from the old Unity stack to React Native. Established the new design system, built the Storybook myself, and write the frontend with AI-assisted coding, in the same repo and pull requests as the engineers.
  • No dedicated PM on the team this year, so I ran the product with the tech lead: read the numbers for the quick wins, proposed what to build next, and made the business case for it. I report to the CPO.
  • Built a prototype React Native app as a playground: every idea goes in front of testers there before I present it to leadership for the roadmap.
  • Data lead for design. Designed retention and activation: onboarding, FTUE, paywall and re-engagement, run as experiments with product and engineering, grounded in user research and product analytics.
  • Built the team's Figma tooling: song metadata populator, icon creator, multi-language preview stress-tester.
  • Organise Yousician Design Jam, a Helsinki meetup for product designers.

Senior Product Designer at Wudpecker, now Userlens

2024

AI meeting summarisation, early stage, working directly with the founders.

  • Designed the core summary interface and onboarding; iterated weekly on early-adopter feedback.
  • Patterns for showing AI confidence and uncertainty so outputs read as trustworthy and actionable, not opaque.

Senior Product Designer, contract at Epicbrief

2023

AI startup for sales teams. Strategic design partner to the founders.

  • Built the design system from zero, shaped product UX, ran iterative research to tie design to business goals.
  • Hired and mentored the first designers; set up the design function.

Senior Product Designer at Wolt

2020 - 2023

Consumer Retention & Engagement, then Merchant Experience. Consumer apps, B2B dashboards and internal tools across Europe.

  • Designed Wolt+, the loyalty subscription, with Brand and several product teams; then B2B promotions and loyalty tooling for merchants.
  • Redesigned merchant Analytics; designed and built an internal A/B testing platform the org used to decide on real data.
  • Built Figma plugins for the design org, including Salmiakki (real data in mockups, on the Wolt engineering blog) and a localisation plugin. Founded Wolt Design Talks, an internal meetup series.

Product Designer at Nosto

2018 - 2020

Enterprise eCommerce personalisation, embedded in an agile team of engineers and a PM.

  • Shipped Dynamic Bundles and a Category Merchandising tool: months of client research and iteration turned into a flexible, simple enterprise product. Wrote frontend code to ship it.
  • Coded in the design system as a regular contributor: components, documentation, Slack notifications, contribution workflow. When the team needed extra hands, I shipped business logic with those components too.

Product Designer at Singa

2017 - 2018

B2B and B2C karaoke apps on iOS, Android and web.

  • Audited analytics, rebuilt information architecture and navigation on three platforms; established the design system and brand guidelines.
  • Revamped onboarding and registration; the iOS app was later featured by Apple.
  • Designed the proprietary Apple TV app and the iPad app used in venues. Redesigned the whole product from scratch as an evergreen solution that still runs as the backbone of Singa venues today.

Earlier, in Croatia: Product Designer at SuperSuper, 2016 - 2017. A year at Body Recog before that, and a year at Bazzar.hr before that. Full history on LinkedIn.

Vocabbie at AI language tutor, iOS and Android

  • Designed, coded and shipped solo to the App Store and Google Play. React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Supabase, TanStack Query, Reanimated, RevenueCat, PostHog. No Figma file: designed in code, in the simulator.
  • Brand, interaction design, speech grading, AI-generated decks, release pipeline, growth. Learners in 99 countries, paying subscribers in five.

Homecrawl at local Firecrawl-compatible scraping and browser automation

  • TypeScript service that drops in for the Firecrawl API on your own machine: static fetch fast-path, real logged-in Chrome through a bundled extension bridge, structured extraction, change tracking, scheduled watches, dashboard, MCP server. My agents and Claude Code use it daily.

Dax at personal AI agent on the Claude Agent SDK

  • Reached over Telegram by voice or text. Watches Vocabbie metrics, runs my calendar, triages inbox, drafts posts in my voice. Wired into PostHog, Pinecone, Firecrawl, Browserbase, Deepgram, ElevenLabs.
  • Sisu & Rakija, a memoir written from voice notes, runs on n8n: voice note in, Whisper transcript, ghostwriter LLM step, chapter committed to GitHub, web reader rebuilt on Vercel.

Also: co-host of the AI Party podcast. Monoset design system, tokens and React. Figma plugins Icon Grid Maker, Color Scale and Name Scrambler. Period Or Not and Pooperton for iOS. Perfect Cut, a paid podcast editor.

Design

Product and UX design, design systems, prototyping, UX writing, accessibility, brand and visual identity, Figma plugin development.

Code

TypeScript, Node, React, Next.js, Svelte and SvelteKit, React Native, Expo, Supabase, Tailwind, HTML and CSS, Chrome extensions and CDP.

Research and data

User interviews, usability testing, continuous discovery, A/B testing, funnel and retention analysis, PostHog, GA.

AI and automation

Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code, Codex, agent and tool design, n8n workflows, LLM-powered features, speech and voice pipelines, AI-first design workflows.

Algebra Open University, Internet Marketing Specialist 2016 - 2017
Faculty of Textile Technology, Zagreb, Engineer of Textile and Fashion Design 2009 - 2015
School of Applied Arts and Design, Zagreb, Scenographer 2004 - 2008

Languages: fluent English, native Croatian, and Finnish, which I am learning and is the reason Vocabbie exists.

Black belt in taekwondo.