I’m a Staff Product Designer working at the intersection of brand, platform and engineering.
Experience
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Staff Product Designer
waterdrop®
Jun 2026 – Present
Currently owning design strategy and systems across all of waterdrop’s digital products, web through app, as the sole designer spanning 22 locales. Owner of the design language the rest of the products run on.
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Senior Product Designer
waterdrop®
Nov 2022 – Jun 2026
Built and scaled the systems behind waterdrop’s web and mobile products as the company grew from ~600k to 10M+ customers.
🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria
Product Designer
waterdrop®
Nov 2021 – Nov 2022
Owned the design of LUCY® Smart Cap end-to-end: iOS and Android hydration app, sub-brand identity and packaging. Rebuilt the waterdrop app from V1 to V2: 400k+ downloads and a Red Dot Award 2022.
🇬🇧🏡 London, United Kingdom
Product Designer
Agency Mai
Dec 2015 – Aug 2021
Product design for enterprise clients in healthcare, automation and industrial technology, including Dextera Health, Viking Cold Solutions, and Phononic, a hardware company later acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
🇷🇴 Iasi, Romania
Web & Visual Designer
National Museum of Literature
Feb 2014 – Feb 2015
Designed and maintained the museum’s digital presence.
Trained in design, sidetracked by philosophy. Got stuck on what things are meant to be. Still am.
Education
🇷🇴 Iasi, Romania
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
National University of Arts George Enescu
2009 – 2012
Discovered that art is more than making things beautiful and that a concept is all that matters. Fell in love with the conceptualists and never fell out of love with them.
🇬🇧 Manchester, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Erasmus
Manchester Metropolitan University
2011
Rainy Manchester taught me that dry art is even better than dry humour.
🇷🇴 Iasi, Romania
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
National University of Arts George Enescu
2012 – 2014
Didn’t have enough of conceptual art, so I went back to get some more. Wrote a Master’s thesis on why intention matters.
©2026 Teodora Gheorghe