# Gabirel Ezcurra Taiganides

> Senior Product Designer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gabirel

I’m a tri-lingual and tri-cultural designer with a deep interest in contributing to meaningful experiences in and beyond the digital realm.

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder @ Planet Enjoyer
Jan 2020 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Our core powerhouse duo performs on just about all design fronts. We love working with good people on meaningful projects. We believe in the importance of relentless tinkering, cultural fusion, depth of message and blending strategy with emotion. With intertwining skills and complimentary approaches we provide perfectly balanced and striking solutions.

### Senior Product Designer @ Themis
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026

### Senior Product Designer @ The Gnar Company
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

### Product Designer @ Solace
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### Product Designer @ Rize
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
· Rize was acquired by Fifth Third Bank and is now known as Newline™ by Fifth Third. 
· Created and managed the design system to improve collaboration between engineering, product, and design.
· Established processes for operations including design library creation, version control, design feedback structure, and developer handoff.
· Built high fidelity, animated prototypes for user testing, presenting to stakeholders, and sharing with developers.

### Visual Designer @ Rize
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
· Led the rebrand of Rize and created brand guidelines to accompany this shift.
· Redesigned the marketing website with new animated visuals.
· Created and distributed an assortment of branded templates and other assets.
· Was the go-to person for any branded materials that were client facing (social media assets, merch, expo collateral, etc).

### Visual Designer @ National Association of REALTORS®
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C.
· Created custom and easily editable pitch decks.
· Designed various consumer reports and collateral for conferences.
· Built complex data visualizations to increase stakeholder engagement.

### Product Designer @ University of Colorado
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boulder, Colorado
· Led effort to create a design system to unify the design and engineering teams with
a single set of styles and components.
· Compiled and managed the digital pattern library and brand guidelines.
· Informed and validated design concepts by performing competitive analyses and conducting user tests.
· Key contributor in accessibility testing sessions for web and mobile applications.

### Video Production Specialist @ TEDxMileHigh
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Denver, CO

### Experience Designer @ Human Design
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boulder, CO
· Designed and published custom websites for clients using different CMS platforms.
· Worked with the creative team to provide design direction, branded assets, pitch decks and other client collateral.

### Production Assistant @ Level 1 Productions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Denver

### Project Intern @ Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Athens, Greece
Future Library Program

### Distribution Assistant @ Sony Pictures Television Latin America
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Miami, Florida


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Creative Technology and Design
University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gabirel
- Portfolio: https://gabirelaki.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29