Hi, I’m Clara, Product Designer at Bolt.
I was born into a Chinese-Italian family in Rome, a city full of history. As a young child, I moved across the continent to China, fulfilling my parents’ wish for me to grow up immersed in Chinese culture. I spent my formative years in Anhui, a quiet, understated province in a rapidly developing China.
Curious about the life I might have had in Europe, I later moved to the UK, where I studied Psychology before completing a Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction at University College London. London—vibrant, multicultural, and relentlessly dynamic—shaped a lot of how I think and what I’m drawn to.
After graduating, I joined a FinTech startup building data products for the wealth management sector, where I found my way into product design. My background helps me empathise with users, and my taste helps bring together function and aesthetics to create a delightful experience. When the opportunity came to join Bolt as an Associate Product Designer, I knew it would be a defining moment in my budding career.
Nine months after first landing at Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, I now feel at home walking through the cobblestone streets of Tallinn Old Town.
At work, I’ve grown to have a strong sense of ownership. I’ve led the end-to-end design of the Account revamp and an ongoing improvement to the Activity tab, both key projects for the team.
Within seven months, I was promoted to Product Designer, which reflected Bolt’s culture of valuing impact over tenure.
As a woman in product, I’ve always drawn inspiration from the women around me. My first manager, Olga P., who led Business Development at Intropic, had a lasting influence on me. I admired her sharp business acumen and effective communication, but even more, the way she made space for others to grow and pushed me to aim higher.
At Bolt, I’ve found that same energy again. The women I work with set a high bar while actively lifting others up. Karina, a senior product designer in RiderX, helped me navigate complex team dynamics early on and showed me, through example, how persistence translates into better outcomes for users.
It can still be discouraging at times to see how few women there are in senior leadership, but it also makes the support we give each other feel even more important. If there’s one thing I’ve taken from the women I’ve worked with, it’s the value of showing up for others and not doing it alone.
Bolt has been a place where both my career and personal life have grown in parallel. Professionally, I’ve had the space to take on meaningful responsibility and grow quickly. Outside of work, Tallinn has become a city I feel genuinely at home in—walkable, connected, and full of talented, international people who make it easy to belong.
It’s been a great journey so far, and I’m excited for what’s next.
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