# Arturo Ramírez > Creative Leader | Artist & Visual Storyteller | Crafting Brand Identities with Purpose. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/arturoramrez Hey, it’s Arturo. 🎨 I’m a Creative Leader obsessed with bold, original design that breaks through the sameness. With 15+ years of experience, I specialize in turning complex problems into intuitive, award-winning brand and product solutions. I believe design should be purposeful & beautiful. Whether I’m leading a global campaign, lost in an oil canvas, or capturing stories through my Leica, my focus is always on elevating the craft. Having shaped identities in over 16 countries, I push to create design that stands out and stays relevant. ## Work Experience ### Creative Director @ Udemy Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Defined the global brand vision for 81 million learners and 75,000 instructors across 160 countries. I directed a multidisciplinary creative team and mentored leads to build a high-performing team. Partnering closely with Product and Engineering, I aligned our brand identity directly with the core product experience, leading 360° campaigns that delivered a seamless journey for 17,000 enterprise customers to drove global growth. ### Associate Creative Director @ Udemy Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 Developed global design guidelines and scalable visual systems across social, email, affiliate, and video channels. Managed a team of full-time and freelance designers, successfully bridging the gap between high-level brand strategy and tactical, day-to-day design execution. ### Creative Lead Designer @ Udemy Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Directed the visual design for core brand initiatives and global campaigns. Transitioned into project oversight, guiding the creative output for international markets to ensure visual consistency, high-quality typography, and strong brand architecture across all digital touch points. ### Visual Designer @ Udemy Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Design Ads for Marketing campaigns for Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter & GDN. Static graphics and cinemagraphs. • Design interactive materials for instructors & students. • Design visuals for the events that the brand sponsors • Create art assets for international market. (Japan, Germany, Spain, France, Portugal & Brazil) ### Sr UI Designer & Art Direction @ coolonsale.com Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York End-to-End Product Design. Developed brand identities and marketing ecosystems for multiple products within the online retail space. Led the building and iterative testing of product prototypes to ensure seamless user journeys and high-conversion UI layouts. ### UI Designer & Creative Direction @ Unveiled Labs Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Identity & UI Architecture: Visual design and brand identity for immersive VR applications. Prototyping & Visual Design: Built high-fidelity prototypes and visual assets to test and refine the user experience within virtual environments. ### Professor @ Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mexico Instructed courses on design fundamentals, focusing on the technical mastery of color correction, advanced retouching, visual hierarchy, and creative problem-solving in a workshop environment. ### Sr Designer and Art Director @ Finhabits Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | New York, United States • Brand development, including guidelines • Print and event advertising • Conceptualized the website UI (wire framing, prototyping, visual development) • Onboarded senior designers to help establish and maintain the brand ### Design and Creative Direction @ Kings and Queens of Qatar (Film) Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Qatar • Developed branding for the film • Designed film packaging as well as posters and other advertising materials for Arabic and English markets • Designed film website (wire framing, prototyping, visual development) • Created print and digital art assets for film’s premier and showings ### Art Director @ IDHIE Non-Profit Organisation Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Mexico Branding and campaign work across digital and print mediums ### Visual Designer @ Hurricane Compute Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Australia Editorial design for an Australian Cloud Services Provider, working remotely. ### Illustrator @ Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Mexico City Area, Mexico I Collaborated with the illustrations used in the Elementary school and High school free text books, used across Mexico. ### Visual Designer @ New World Monkeys Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Mexico City Area, Mexico Managing client proposals from typesetting through to design, print and production. ### Illustrator @ CONACULTA Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Mexico Illustrator for editorial content ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arturodesign - Portfolio: https://www.heyarturo.com/ - Portfolio: https://www.heyarturo.com/work - Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/DesignArturo --- Source: https://flows.cv/arturoramrez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arturoramrez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13