Hi, I'm Paula García, a senior product designer with over 6 years of experience crafting visually engaging, user-friendly, and accessible digital experiences. I’ve worked across diverse industries including entertainment, telecommunications, finance, and technology, supporting startups as well as major enterprises. Based in Montréal, I’m passionate about driving design strategies that align with both user needs and business goals. I enjoy leading cross-functional teams and mentoring designers, continuously learning, and contributing to design systems that scale. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, I strive to create intuitive and inclusive solutions by applying user-centered design principles, agile methodologies, and data-driven insights.

Paula García

Hi, I'm Paula García, a senior product designer with over 6 years of experience crafting visually engaging, user-friendly, and accessible digital experiences. I’ve worked across diverse industries including entertainment, telecommunications, finance, and technology, supporting startups as well as major enterprises. Based in Montréal, I’m passionate about driving design strategies that align with both user needs and business goals. I enjoy leading cross-functional teams and mentoring designers, continuously learning, and contributing to design systems that scale. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, I strive to create intuitive and inclusive solutions by applying user-centered design principles, agile methodologies, and data-driven insights.

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Hi, I’m Paula García, a senior product designer with over 6 years of experience crafting visually engaging, user-friendly, and accessible digital experiences. I’ve worked across diverse industries including entertainment, telecommunications, finance, and technology, supporting startups as well as major enterprises. Based in Montréal, I’m passionate about driving design strategies that align with both user needs and business goals.

I enjoy leading cross-functional teams and mentoring designers, continuously learning, and contributing to design systems that scale. Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, I strive to create intuitive and inclusive solutions by applying user-centered design principles, agile methodologies, and data-driven insights.

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Language

English
Fluent
French
Advanced
Spanish; Castilian
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Experience Designer at Publicis Sapient
August 31, 2024 - July 31, 2025
Provided design consultancy and experience design to Verizon’s Conversational Design Experiences for chatbot support channel. Led design tracks of work facilitating communication with Product Owner, Engineers, Business partners. Redefined the chat welcome experience, increasing user interaction by nearly 300% and doubling sales in the first months of launch. Contributed to the expansion of Verizon’s conversational internal design system library.
UX/UI Designer at Applaudo Studios
August 1, 2024 - Present
Leading cross-functional design projects in close collaboration with stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to deliver solutions aligned with user needs and business goals. Designing strategic user-centered features in an agile environment for Event Mobile Experience improving user usability and operational efficiency. Delivered the Core Design System for Google's initiative to digital transform El Salvador’s government, optimizing scalability of components across 6 public sector products.
Product Design Lead & UX/UI Designer at Makata Studio
July 31, 2023 - July 31, 2025
Led and coordinated UX/UI workflows for 7+ web and mobile products across French and US startup markets, adapting design approaches to different cultural contexts and user behaviors increasing conversion rate and user retention by 20%. Mentored, advised and curated UX/UI, Graphics, Brand and Development team’s design work, for teams of 3 to 4 designers and engineers. Created and enhanced design systems that helped with the scalability for multiple startup products. Provided user centered design for mobile and website applications, prototype and develop front-end of websites. Worked along brand and visual designers to deliver products with new brand identities.
UX/UI Designer at Netmidas & Datapico
December 31, 2020 - July 31, 2025
Provided user-centered design for mobile and website applications, focusing on data-driven experiences. Visual design to tell stories with quantitative data in interactive websites with React js and D3js.
Researcher & UX Designer at i2t Technology Research Center
December 31, 2019 - July 31, 2025
Provided problem solving with user-centered design approach, conducting user research and data analysis, for emerging technology applications in IoT, data visualization and AI. Presented work at HCI International Conferences (2019, 2021), contributing to academic discourse on human-computer interaction in emerging technologies.

Education

BS at Universidad Icesi
July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2020

Qualifications

AI for Strategic Decision Making
January 11, 2030 - July 31, 2025
Agile Project Management Foundation
August 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Government

Experience Level

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