Maryna Manhura
CV
Maryna Manhura

Maryna Manhura

I'm a Senior Product Designer based in Warsaw, originally from Ukraine. Designing complex B2B tools for oil & gas and finance since 2019 - the last 4 years at Corva, where I lead design on one of the platform's core products, contribute across the wider drilling suite, and serve as the design team's tech lead on AI.

What I do for business

I turn messy, technical problems into products that move metrics. Adoption, time saved, decisions made faster, costly errors avoided.

Over the past 4 years I've designed 10+ production applications from the ground up - used daily by engineers at Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, YPF, and a major Middle East operator. My work has scaled from zero to tens of thousands of weekly uses, contributed to documented client outcomes like 3 days saved and 30% reduction in connection times per well, and shaped the standards other designers on the team build on.

I own projects end-to-end: research, IA, interaction design, visual design, design systems, and partnership with PMs and engineers from kickoff to production.

I'm at my best with:

Dense data and dashboards

Real-time monitoring, multi-layered charts, control-room interfaces where every pixel earns its place

Technical domains that require deep learning

Drilling operations, geoscience, finance - fields where you can't design well until you understand the work

Workshops & knowledge sharing

Growing the design team

Beyond my design role, I'm the design team's tech lead on AI - running monthly workshops for our 10-designer team and contributing to the wider organization on how we adopt new tools and methods.

Past sessions:

  • Discovery - building the right thing

  • Brainwriting

  • How to Create Component Monsters - nested components in Figma

  • Cursor for designers

  • Setting up local dev environments

  • Tutorial: Connect Claude to Figma MCP

  • Claude Code: Terminal for designers

Brainwriting workshop - FigJam board
Cursor for designers workshop - FigJam board

Events & community

Events

Corvacon 2024 - Traces demo

Corvacon

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Texas, USA · 2024

Corva's annual client conference. We presented the first release of redesigned Traces to enterprise clients and partners. A chance to connect with the people actually using what we ship.

Corvacon 2025 - photo 3

Corvacon

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Texas, USA · 2025

Corva's annual client conference. We presented the new version of Traces and the Geo Insights apps to clients and partners - direct feedback from the engineers who run these tools daily.

Figma Config

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San Francisco, USA · 2025

One of the highlights of my year.

I'd been wanting to go to Config for ages, and finally being there in person - surrounded by thousands of designers, sitting in on talks from teams I've followed for years, seeing what people are building with AI and the latest Figma features - was genuinely energizing.

I came back full of ideas, references, and new things I wanted to try. A lot of what I now bring into our team workshops started here.

Figma Config 2025 - photo 6

Education & Certifications

Education & Certifications

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (2015–2019). It taught me how to study people - how they think, decide, and behave in systems - which turned out to be the most useful foundation I could have brought into product design.

Everything design-specific I learned outside of university. Over the years I've taken courses on UX/UI fundamentals, research methods, data tables in Figma, and more recently AI for designers and vibe coding. I keep learning because the field keeps moving - but I treat courses as a starting point, not a credential. What matters is how the knowledge shows up in shipped work.

Certificate 1

Contact

Get in touch

govorova175@gmail.comLinkedIn