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Product Lead & Design Architect Transforming systemic complexity into intuitive creative flow. 14 years designing products from early-stage (0→1) to products used by 13M users.…

Mariana Cantini

Product Designer, UX Designer, Designer, +1

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Product Lead & Design Architect Transforming systemic complexity into intuitive creative flow. 14 years designing products from early-stage (0→1) to products used by 13M users.…

Available to hire

Lisbon, Portugal

Product Lead & Design Architect
Transforming systemic complexity into intuitive creative flow.

14 years designing products from early-stage (0→1) to products used by 13M users.

Skills

Product Design

Web Design

Data Visualization

Experience Level

Product Design

Expert

Web Design

Expert

Data Visualization

Expert

Language

Portuguese

Fluent

English

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Intermediate

French

Intermediate

Work Experience

Founding Member & UX Lead at Zerra

January 1, 2024 - Present

Co-founded an AI-enabled legal and fiscal residency platform; defined product strategy with business and engineering; built from prototype to early validation and contributed to a $2M funding; designed agile workflows and omnichannel experiences translating complex legal systems.

UX Specialist at TOTVS

January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024

Led UX strategy for modernization of legacy systems used by 70K+ clients; aligned product, engineering and business stakeholders to improve decision clarity.

UX Lead at Rhizom

January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022

Led product design for the first Latin American blockchain protocol startup; translated complex blockchain concepts into usable experiences and built a design system; improved delivery speed and consistency.

Senior Product Designer at Itaú Unibanco

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022

Drove UX for Brazil’s leading financial institution’s Open Banking initiatives; delivered Pix experience and first-to-market Pix-related features, contributing to large-scale adoption and a robust user experience.

Senior UX Designer at Estúdio Coletivo

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2020

Established UX processes and improved delivery efficiency through structured workflows and design-system-driven collaboration.

UI/UX Designer at VTEX

January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017

Delivered 60+ e-commerce projects, supporting revenue growth and user engagement; collaborated with product, engineering and marketing teams to drive adoption.

UI Designer at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) – Technology Lab

January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2014

Designed and validated an educational app through user research and usability testing to support learning outcomes.