Basia Perkowski

Senior/Staff Product Designer

Basia builds trustworthy, scalable systems for complex, regulated products and helps the teams around her grow them responsibly.

Previously at Amazon, Atlassian and Slice.

Her Experience

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What she focuses on

Basia tends to work where systems are complex, stakes are high, and design decisions have long-term consequences.

Platform & systems

Working on shared platforms and infrastructure: billing, permissions, access control, and cross-team systems, where governance, extensibility, and clarity all matter.

Agentic AI

Designing AI assistants and workflows that can act on behalf of users: handling prep, routing, and follow-through, while remaining transparent, safe, and aligned with human judgment.

Growth & product strategy

Pairing experimentation with systems thinking: shaping hypotheses, designing experiments, and using what the team learns to inform product strategy and onboarding, not just short-term wins.

How she works

Basia works equally well deeply embedded with product, engineering, data, and operations or solo, mapping the missing context herself when that structure isn’t there yet.

System first, then screens

After problem alignment, she starts by mapping existing CX, research, roles, data, policies, and edge cases so the interfaces reflect how the system actually behaves.

Responsibility by design

She designs with risk, compliance, and trust in mind, making tradeoffs explicit, collaborating with legal and security partners, and choosing defaults that respect users.

Experiements with a backbone

She helps frame good hypotheses, design experiments, and interpret results so research and experimentation drive real product decisions.

AI as a collaborator, not a shortcut

She uses AI tools throughout her process: prototyping interactions, synthesizing research, drafting first-pass copy and specs to move faster from idea to something testable. But in regulated, high-stakes domains, AI output is a first draft, not a final answer: she verifies claims, checks edge cases, and applies the same scrutiny to AI-assisted work that she’d apply to any teammate’s.

Get in touch

Basia is open to staff-level product design roles and collaborations on complex, trust-heavy products in healthcare, fintech, security, and adjacent spaces. The best way to reach her is via: