I’m Carma Sharon, a Senior Design Lead with 15+ years shaping end-to-end UX/UI for B2B SaaS, fintech, and financial services—spanning discovery and research through prototyping, delivery, and engineering handoff. I currently own the user experience across five complex B2B SaaS platforms for an ASX-listed financial services business, guiding a design team while staying hands-on with the highest-impact work. I’m passionate about making accessibility and business outcomes part of the design brief from day one, and I enjoy building systems that scale across teams and products. I’ve delivered measurable results like rapid broker-facing CRM adoption, rebuilt grant management experiences to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and supported a mobile banking redesign that earned national and local design awards.…

CARMA SHARON

I’m Carma Sharon, a Senior Design Lead with 15+ years shaping end-to-end UX/UI for B2B SaaS, fintech, and financial services—spanning discovery and research through prototyping, delivery, and engineering handoff. I currently own the user experience across five complex B2B SaaS platforms for an ASX-listed financial services business, guiding a design team while staying hands-on with the highest-impact work. I’m passionate about making accessibility and business outcomes part of the design brief from day one, and I enjoy building systems that scale across teams and products. I’ve delivered measurable results like rapid broker-facing CRM adoption, rebuilt grant management experiences to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and supported a mobile banking redesign that earned national and local design awards.…

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I’m Carma Sharon, a Senior Design Lead with 15+ years shaping end-to-end UX/UI for B2B SaaS, fintech, and financial services—spanning discovery and research through prototyping, delivery, and engineering handoff. I currently own the user experience across five complex B2B SaaS platforms for an ASX-listed financial services business, guiding a design team while staying hands-on with the highest-impact work.

I’m passionate about making accessibility and business outcomes part of the design brief from day one, and I enjoy building systems that scale across teams and products. I’ve delivered measurable results like rapid broker-facing CRM adoption, rebuilt grant management experiences to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and supported a mobile banking redesign that earned national and local design awards.

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Experience Level

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Work Experience

Senior Design Lead, B2B SaaS Platform Suite at Confidential — ASX-listed Financial Services
July 1, 2023 - Present
Led end-to-end UX/UI ownership across five complex B2B SaaS platforms, partnering across Design, Product, and Engineering to ensure user needs shaped product planning and delivery. Drove 30% broker CRM adoption in the first week of launch through a full redesign of fragmented legacy screens. Built and governed a Figma design system (tokens, components, variables, and reusable patterns), established quality standards via critiques, defined team structure and hiring needs as the org scaled, and tracked adoption/engagement/task-completion metrics to prioritize initiatives. Delivered engineering-ready specifications and improved the design process across scoping, reviews, handoff, and measurement.
Lead UX/UI Designer at SurePact
April 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
Repositioned the product as an accessible, enterprise-ready platform by rebuilding the interface around user needs and product requirements, balancing visual improvement with functional gains. Developed a bespoke design system to improve consistency and scalability between design and development. Remediated the platform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, covering color contrast and keyboard navigability. Produced high-fidelity prototypes for stakeholder buy-in and usability testing, and facilitated cross-functional sessions to keep complex requirements moving to schedule.
Senior UX/UI Designer, Native Mobile Banking at Arq Group / Newcastle Permanent Building Society
April 1, 2022 - April 30, 2023
Delivered a mobile banking redesign that improved usage and user ratings and won the 2022 Brisbane Driven x Design Award and a Better Future National Gold Award. Owned interaction and experience design across brand refresh, new features, and design system scalability. Led migration from Sketch to Figma and created an auto-layout design system to streamline design workflow. Produced Figma prototypes for usability/performance testing, enhanced UI typography and color for readability and accessibility aligned to WCAG 2.1, and contributed during sprint reviews and user acceptance testing.
Lead UX/UI Designer, Fintech SaaS at Tecassa / Crossfire
January 1, 2022 - April 30, 2022
Owned end-to-end product design in Figma, from requirement gathering and wireframing to high-fidelity prototyping and execution. Contributed to Crossfire being acquired by a financial services firm with intent to further invest. Built a comprehensive style guide and design system to support straightforward implementation and scalability. Designed a customer-facing website focused on clarity and ease of use.
UX/UI Designer at Wise (TransferWise)
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Worked on UX/UI and web/marketing collateral design.
UX/UI and Visual Designer at Republic of Everyone
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022
Created UX/UI and visual design outputs across web and marketing collateral.
UX/UI Designer at AislePlus
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Designed UX/UI for interactive touchscreens.
UX/UI Designer at Deepend / StudyLink Connect
January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020
Designed UX/UI for student SaaS products.
UX/UI Designer at Zip (Money)
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019
Designed UX/UI for web/app experiences and supporting marketing collateral.
at Various clients (2011–2018)
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2018
Worked with a range of clients including Fairfax Media, MercerBell, SBS, AMEX, ING, Mastercard, Google, M&C Saatchi, Joy Agency, Adobe, Commonwealth Bank, Tourism Australia, Telstra, IBM, Ogilvy, Toyota, Nine, Optus, eBay, Foxtel, Officeworks, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Qantas, Bulla, BMW, KFC, Coles, Tabcorp, Citrix, Ausgrid, and Westfield.

Education

Diploma of Graphic Design at Martin College, Study Group Australia
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2011
Certificate IV in Graphic Design at Martin College, Study Group Australia
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2011
Certificate II in Business, Management and Marketing at Australian Academy of Commerce
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

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

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert