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<aside> ⚡ Maroš Zeleňák is a former Partner and Chief Design Officer at Vacuumlabs, responsible for managing the design and marketing team and of all branding and product design initiatives. Before that, Maros had founded branding & digital product studio Hellephant, later acquired by Vacuumlabs.

Maroš is also a co-founder of UX Košice, an initiative to help cultivate the digital product design environment in Slovakia.

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What I currently do

• Freelance branding and product design

<aside> 🖼️ See samples of my work here: Portfolio

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• Free help/consultancy for aspiring designers (feel free to reach out → ✉️ [email protected])
• Co-run AHA Cookies

What I did in the past

• Partner, Chief Design Officer at Vacuumlabs (2018-2020)

  • Member of the executive team and the Board of directors working to plan and implement the business strategies in the CEE region and globally for Vacuum Group and its subsidiaries
  • Day-to-day leadership and management of the design team and projects, mostly in fintech space
  • Responsible for Design projects business development

  Highlight: Co-launching the first LGBT bank in the US, Daylight

• Founded and led Hellephant (2012-2018), a branding and digital product studio (acquired by Vacuumlabs)

  • Founder and director of branding & digital product studio Hellephant. Responsible for management and creative direction and strategy of all studio's outputs to clients. The studio was acquired by and merged with technology company Vacuumlabs in fall of 2018.
  • Some of Hellephant's clients: Red Bull, Lenovo, Motorola, Nike, RWE, Metaxa

• Worked at Red Bull as a Student Brand Manager (2010-2013)

• Co-founded UrbanZoo (2011-2013), an online fashion store

• Freelanced as a designer (2005-2012)

Side stuff

• Co-founded UX Košice initiative (2019-2020)
• Mentored UX design at Butterfly Effect product design program (2020)
• Mentored design at Startup Weekend Košice (2019)