Maylla Souza
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
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).
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.
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.
Education· 8
Certifications and awards
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