# Fabio Castro > Staff Product Designer at @Walmart Global Tech Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/fabio Senior UX designer with 9 years of experience in digital media. Solid experience creating designs for responsive websites, social media, and apps (iOS and Android). Native Spanish speaker with working proficiency in English ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States • Responsible for the quality, consistency, and accuracy of a project. Communicate the impact of design decisions in business-friendly language, including quantitative metrics or business KPIs. • Influence cross-functional partners in Product, Business, and Engineering; advocating for the value of UX to non-designers • Lead UX discovery, present discovery insights to stakeholders, validate use cases, and map business processes. • Leverage discovery insights to scope and plan project deliverables for yourself and other designers in your project team, setting clear objectives and priorities • Translate use cases into wireframes and prototypes in Figma, applying Walmart’s design system to create accessible, usable, global products • Communicate the rationale for design decisions to project stakeholders, and lead the hand-off documentation process for engineer. ### Senior Product Designer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States • Creates and manages the user experience designs (design comps, visual design specs, prototypes) for complex and comprehensive projects; defining methods to be used, including competitive audits and secondary research, presenting designs to project and business teams for review; and working with Engineering leads to determine the effectiveness of solutions, producing detailed design documentation and other specifications required to implement design; working with product manager and team to define documentation scope; reviewing project product requirements to ensure correct translation of design; and providing quality assurance (QA) feedback to Engineering, and Product Management prior to launch. • Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. • Supports and leads User Experience strategy and innovation by evaluating the current competitive landscape for compelling customer experiences; analyzing future trends and forecasts in related fields; constructing compelling products outlining present conditions and proposed solutions; and presenting information within and across the organization to gain strategic alignment and encourage change. • Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. ### Senior Product Designer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Creates and manages the user experience designs (design comps, visual design specs, prototypes) for complex and comprehensive projects; defining methods to be used, including competitive audits and secondary research, presenting designs to project and business teams for review; and working with Engineering leads to determine the effectiveness of solutions, producing detailed design documentation and other specifications required to implement design; working with product manager and team to define documentation scope; reviewing project product requirements to ensure correct translation of design; and providing quality assurance (QA) feedback to Engineering, and Product Management prior to launch. • Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. • Supports and leads User Experience strategy and innovation by evaluating the current competitive landscape for compelling customer experiences; analyzing future trends and forecasts in related fields; constructing compelling products outlining present conditions and proposed solutions; and presenting information within and across the organization to gain strategic alignment and encourage change. • Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities. ### Art Director @ Wunderman Thompson Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Costa Rica •Analyze problems, anticipate consequences, and eliminate obstacles to successfully complete projects. •Concept and collaborate on campaign ideas and digital tactics with a creative team while working on multiple projects. •Mange and prioritize projects within timelines for project milestones. • Craft original concepts, execute copy based on established voice/tone, and collaborate with mid- and junior-level writers on copy execution. • Partner with the Creative leads to concept, write, present, and defend work while addressing client needs. ### Senior Visual Designer @ Wunderman Thompson Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Costa Rica ### Senior Visual Designer @ POSSIBLE Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Costa Rica Working with the team on concepts and execution of original designs for interactive environments and directs those efforts through to completion Able to pump out templates for page based interaction, experiment with multiple approaches in multivariate/optimization efforts and generate original visual. ### Visual Designer @ POSSIBLE Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, Costa Rica ### Graphic Designer @ Freelance Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 As a freelancer I’ve had the opportunity to be involved in projects that allowed me to work in different areas of design, such as: branding, editorial, web, among others. ## Education ### Licentiate degree in Graphic Design Universidad LCI Veritas ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fabio-castro-soto - Website: http://www.behance.net/fabiocs --- Source: https://flows.cv/fabio JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/fabio/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23