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Maylla Souza

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I’m Maylla Souza, a senior product designer with 10+ years building fintech products across digital banking, credit, treasury, BaaS, and white-label platforms.

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I’m Maylla Souza, a senior product designer with 10+ years building fintech products across digital banking, credit, treasury, BaaS, and white-label platforms. I work closely with PMs and engineers, and I’m the kind of designer who cares about quality all the way through delivery—leading QA, writing test plans, and catching release-blocking issues early.

Lately I’ve been combining design systems thinking with AI-powered workflows: from end-to-end ownership of a multi-tenant fintech design system (tokens, i18n, and zero-breakage migrations) to building automation bridges and WhatsApp conversational AI agents for SMB operations. I’ve also led design teams, set up design operations, and mentored others—always focused on scalable product experiences for both B2B and multi-tenant environments.

  • 15 years' experience
  • Joined October 2026

Languages

  • PortugueseFluent
  • EnglishAdvanced
  • Spanish; CastilianIntermediate
  • FrenchBeginner

Industry experience

  • Financial Services
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services
  • Other

Work experience· 10 roles

AI Builder - Conversational AI & Workflow Automation · Stealth AI StartupJan 2026 – Present · 11 mos

Built WhatsApp conversational AI agents for SMBs, turning people-dependent operational flows (FAQs, scheduling, lead intake, follow-ups, urgent requests) into modular multi-agent architectures with clear scope and handoff rules. Prototyped conversational flows directly with LLMs on low-code platforms for fast validation, then implemented safety layers that route sensitive/urgent cases to humans. Created structured test scripts and worked with model-agnostic, cost-aware integrations for tools without strong APIs. Self-hosted the stack using Docker and cloud infrastructure, monitored deployments, and packaged the solution as a product (briefing, proposal, contract, pitch deck, project board).

Product Design Consultant · Stealth StartupJan 2026 – Present · 11 mos

Project-based product design for B2B and fintech teams, including CRM/ERP redesign, design systems, UX audits, QA, and clickable prototypes. Delivered a multi-track engagement for a multi-franchise Field CRM that included live ERP CRM redesign/QA alongside a greenfield platform proposal. Tested multiple functional journeys in staging, versioned a backlog, and built a shared Material-based design system across products. Pivoted deliverables based on stakeholder feedback and produced a board-ready platform thesis, plus clickable prototypes and QA journey outputs.

Specialist Product Designer & QA Lead · Mercurial Atlantic InvestmentsNov 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Design and QA across a prediction-market platform with white-label player app, admin/back-office suite, and partner embed widgets. Converted PRDs into player/admin/back-office flows, covering the full event and market lifecycle (create, approve, suspend, close, cancel, dispute and resolve) and multi-tenant operations. Owned the company design system end to end (architecture, tokens, i18n, versioned releases) and led zero-breakage migrations for 280+ component instances; drove adoption above 90%. Led QA using Gherkin test execution, exploratory testing, browser automation, and bug triage (including release-blocking issues with strong evidence). Wrote test plans for new payment rails and established release rituals and governance.

Senior Product Designer · AccountfyNov 2023 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos
Staff Product Designer · Own Financial ServicesOct 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos
Design Team Lead · Paketá CréditoJun 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos
Design Team Lead · Social BankOct 2018 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos
Product Designer · Zup InnovationOct 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Education· 8

Postgraduate in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · Faculdade Pitágoras2024 – 2025
Design Management · IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation2030 – 2026
MBA, Digital and Multimedia Design · Estácio2018 – 2019
Visual Perception & Design, UI · IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation2018 – 2019

Certifications and awards

Product Design | Fundamentals of Generative AI2024 – 2026
UX Deep Dive: Remote Research2030 – 2026
Design Thinking: Data Intelligence2030 – 2026

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