About
Staff Product Designer, AI-native. Ten years in tech, from an internship at Globo.com to designing with AI.
I see the connections others skip: between the physical and the digital, the business and the code.
When I start on a problem, I pull from everywhere: how things work in the physical world, products that aren't direct competitors, things I've seen fail. Then I bring everyone into it, the PM, the engineer, the CEO, the intern. I'm rarely the only one with the good idea.
I'm hands-on and I don't mind being wrong. I test early, learn fast, and keep the good part. At Tradeverifyd that meant learning a new domain, working fully in English, and dropping Figma to design straight in the code with AI.
The short version
- Work authorization
- U.S. and Brazilian citizen. No sponsorship needed.
- Location
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Remote on US Eastern hours, or on-site in Rio.
- Languages
- Portuguese, native
English, fluent
Spanish, professional - Education
- PUC-Rio, B.Des. in Digital Media Design
Ten years, one thread
- Globo.com2014 · intern
- MJV2016 · UX design manager
- Prudential2018 · UX designer
- OLX2019 · UX strategy lead
- Nuvemshop2024 · AI agents
- will bank2025 · staff
- Tradeverifyd2026 · staff, AI-native
Why hire me
What makes me different
I close the gap between design and what ships. At Tradeverifyd I designed straight in the codebase with Claude Code: 84 pull requests, and a design check that every pull request went through. At will bank I validated in two weeks what used to take two months, with no engineering time.
Working with a US team
I'm a U.S. citizen, so there's no visa or sponsorship involved. I work remote from Rio de Janeiro on US Eastern hours, and in 2026 I worked fully in English with a US team.
How I work with product and engineering
Close and early. I pull the PM, the engineers and anyone with context into the problem, write the spec and the acceptance criteria, and review what ships. I'd rather be challenged on a draft than surprised in production.
Where I'm strongest
Chat and AI agent experiences, design systems, and fast experimentation. Ten years across B2B SaaS, fintech, e-commerce and marketplaces.
What I'm looking for
A Staff or Senior product design role at a US company, remote, where AI is changing how products get built. I want to help define the new way design, engineering and product work together.
Fun fact. I went to design school to become an animator. Then I found UX and fell for it.