# Doug Henrique > Senior Product Designer | 10 yrs UX & Design System | 4 yrs building for AI | Open for Remote Non-W2 Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/doughenrique “I don’t design for aesthetics, I solve problems from concept to execution.” That’s how I describe what I do. For me, design is about solving real-life problems. When we build systems that make life easier and better, we help people do more and feel more connected. That’s how we end up living better lives. I do whatever it takes to build meaningful products as a senior, high-level individual contributor. Execution over ambition. After a decade, I’ve learned to work with precision and velocity. Whether it involves UI, design systems, development, or AI workflows. Great, scalable UI/UX is a natural outcome of strong foundations built over years of experience. Show me a product I’d genuinely be a customer of and I’ll push it further than expected. I tend to obsessively improve and fill the gaps in what’s meaningful to me. I bring a founder’s mindset, taking ownership, working proactively, and contributing beyond design into implementation. With an entrepreneurial background, this comes naturally to me. Right now, I’m focused on anticipating how agentic experiences reshape UX, where AI introduces dynamic design and unpredictable elements. In parallel, I’m exploring how design systems must evolve to support this new paradigm, enabling faster iteration and true co-development with AI. Short talk: Open for new projects. 🇺🇸🇧🇷 Currently based in Sao Paulo, Brazil (UTC−3) and working remotely for US companies. I work as an independent contractor through my Delaware LLC, with a commercial address in San Francisco, California, or through my Brazilian entity. Feel free to send me a DM. ⚡ 4+ years of experience in agentic, generative and conversational AI product design. 🚀 10+ years in product design, shaping user experiences and design systems for Fortune 500 and startups. Teams from 10, 100, to 8,000+ and up to $4B in revenue. 🌱 6+ years of experience in front-end development (ReactJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS, Storybook, and more...) ✨ Using AI daily to work 10x faster than I could a few years ago. 🌎 Delivered 50+ projects for clients worldwide in AI, SaaS, commerce, finance, insurance, healthcare, legal, and real estate. 🔭 Well-versed in Figma and the essentials of UI/UX design principles. (It has to be, right?) ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ GlossGenius Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Airia Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Atlanta, GA Enterprise AI Orchestration Platform Airia is an early-stage startup with 100+ employees, building a full-stack enterprise AI platform to help companies securely deploy and manage AI agents at scale. As one of four product designers, I owned and designed Airia Chat, a generative conversational tool (Web and iOS) synced with the main platform for building and deploying AI agents. Led the creation of Airia’s design system, delivering components and documentation on Figma and Storybook to help the UX team and 20+ frontend developers build patterns faster and more consistently Worked with DesignOps to create and validate a sprint-based workflow and governance model for the design system team, where I was the project lead. Actively contributed to the engineering team by maximizing component usability, ensuring QA compliance through code review, pull requests and maintaining Storybook documentation. ### Senior Product Designer @ GoDaddy Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Arizona, United States As a Senior UX/UI Product Designer on the payments team at GoDaddy, I played a pivotal role in creating high-quality, consistent, and scalable user experiences. • Collaborated on redesigning GoDaddy's Payments Platform, integrating a new design system. • Served as the UX gatekeeper for the AI framework, designing and validating the initial AI experiences of GoDaddy's Airo™ Assistant. • Designed, documented, and maintained UI components and patterns for the new payment area on GoDaddy's commerce platform. • Streamlined internal processes by acting as a design operations specialist, establishing comprehensive design documentation for source of truth and facilitating seamless development handoffs. ### Product Designer @ Casey (Legal AI) Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | London Area, United Kingdom AI Legal Platform Casey is a small London-based legal tech startup offering an AI platform for legal workflows with tasks like contract review, legal research, and document drafting. • Reported to the founder and co-founder to refine the Casey product into an all-in-one AI platform for legal workflows aimed at attracting investment in the £5.5B market. • Acted as a Design Consultant to help Casey define and establish a design system foundation at both the design and code stack, ensuring scalability and consistency as the product grows. • Used rapid prototyping and fast development handoffs to launch demo product updates, helping Casey secure clients and potentially funding to make a larger market impact. • Helped onboard and train new design team members, providing training on the full-cycle process and how to use design systems and UX/UI principles in the generative and conversational AI lawtech space. ### Senior Product Designer (Design Systems) @ NerdWallet Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA As a Senior Product Designer contracted through Number8, I worked with the SEO UX team, playing a pivotal role in a short-term project to create a source of truth component catalog documentation. I collaborated closely with cross-functional partners to define documentation objectives and execution plans. Developed a streamlined workflow to organize and document over 200 WordPress components built with React.js. This documentation facilitated collaboration among a team of 40+ content creators at NerdWallet, a leading American personal finance company valued at $1.2 billion. ### Founder & Product Designer @ Strides Digital Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States As an optimistic entrepreneur and dedicated Product Designer with a unique blend of marketing and development skills, I founded Strides, a US design agency specializing in SaaS products. • Since 2016, I've led UI/UX design projects with a strong focus on marketing and development for over 50+ global projects. • Currently, I collaborate with big tech companies and startups, focusing on AI experiences and SaaS products through our design services based on a subscription model. Initially, my strategy involved hands-on work with Google Ads and SEO to increase both paid and organic traffic. I fine-tuned these efforts alongside improving the website's user experience to maximize business outcomes. Nowadays, my focus is strictly on UI/UX design subscriptions, complemented by development services such as Webflow development subscriptions in specific cases. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Advertising and Marketing Universidade Anhembi Morumbi Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Digital Marketing Impacta Tecnologia Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doughenrique - Website: https://doughenrique.framer.website --- Source: https://flows.cv/doughenrique JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/doughenrique/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07