# Joseph Barrientos > Brand Designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/josephbarrientos Focusing mostly on product design, I'm a UX/UI designer who deals with product creation, team management, user research, visual studies and product releases. I've lead both small and large teams, independently and within an organization. I believe the best idea in the room is the right one, leave your ego at the door and let's do great work. ## Work Experience ### Brand Designer @ Gusto Jan 2021 – Present Working within the Brand Studio team at Gusto. Primarily focused on Gusto's Embedded solution. ### Senior Product Designer @ Claymore USA Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA Designing out the next great global gaming solution. Upkeep and updating the current product designs.
 Crafting experiences for mobile and desktop. Aligning product experiences across the platforms.
 Working with both an in-house and remote team.
 Defining the company brand experience.
 Creating office environment branded designs. ### Senior Product Designer @ ABRA Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | mountain view, ca Working as a Senior product designer at Abra I was hired to tackle the design from both the product/user experience and as well take on the visual design for both the product and company as a whole. My task is to iterate on the current live application while also developing a brand vision to be used in the application redesign, marketing material and general company branding. Working across three different teams to provide a seamless visual style and experience across the company. • Iterate and refine the user experience on current live application • Define Visual UI and Design language across all products and platforms • Define user personas and user interface for new products and features • Develop design system components, wireframes and prototypes • Testing along side QA to ensure the UX is functional and expected • Craft marketing campaigns for user outreach as well as mass media advertising ### Product Designer @ Self-employed Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Currently working with Stealth start-ups. • Establishing and implementing brand guidelines. • Creating visual product design examples. • Building out UX anatomy of products. • Producing internal and investor pitch deck presentations. • Generating UI and visual assets. ### Designer II @ SoundHound Inc Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, CA Working within the SoundHound product design team. Creating experiences for SoundHound, Hound, and Houndify. Responsibilities include: • Maintaining implemented design patterns for all new features. • Creating new assets and visual cues for products. • Introducing new styles and design philosophy. • Overseeing development implementation of new designs. • Testing along side QA to ensure the UX is functional and expected. • Preparing files for user testing and research. • Creating prototypes for said user testing and research. • Revising previous designs ideas and features. • Brainstorming with department heads on future product features ### Product Designer @ Quixey Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA Leading the Quixey Business Development team in UX/UI Design and serving products to companies globally. Helping shape the future of mobile search. • Responsible for the User Experience of all partner facing products and integration proposals. • Coordinate with engineering and product teams to meet deadlines and push to production. • Provide product and market research, parallel with User Experience Research and testing. • Design products and systems that scale and are innovative. • Create functional and still prototypes to test with users. • Design products that are user friendly, delightful and effective. ### Visual Designer @ Elance | oDesk Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | mountain view, ca • Overseeing all mobile app visual design. • Setting and implementing brand guidelines. • Hosting User Experience Research sessions. • Providing visuals for pages site wide. ### Visual Designer (contract) @ Align Technology Resources Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | los gatos, ca Designed client collateral in efforts to make instructional pages more engaging. Working alone as well as in teams to deliver work in line with client’s branding. ### Visual Design Assistant @ The Art Institutes Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, CA Created print campaigns for school held events. Led the campus design language for in house media. This including email designs, tv ads, as well as the job board. ## Education ### BS in graphic design art institute of california-sunnyvale Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jbcreate - Portfolio: https://jbcreate.cc/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/josephbarrientos JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/josephbarrientos/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25