# Joshua Ramires > Lead Interaction Designer @ Google | UXD work-streams, SMB advertising, Growth and Acquistions Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuaramires As a Product Leader, I inspire and deliver industrial strength consumer experiences. If you have searched for a business on Google or checked out business listing on Google Maps, you’ve likely seen some of my work. I apply my decade of UX Design experience as an inclusive and communicative team lead of high-performing teams. My super strengths are leading multi-disciplinary teams to leverage user insights to build impactful experiences for world-class brands. I am most effective in creating strategic vision in 0-1 stage environments where ambiguity and uncertainty persist. As a leader in human-centered design thinking I am able to establish product market fit through applying design principles for scaled applications and emergent technology including AI. ## Work Experience ### Interaction Design Lead @ Google Jan 2020 – Present | Mountain View, California Creating beautiful & meaningful product experiences for Emerging Markets. With a focus on SMB advertising products, I lead xFn teams and UXD work-streams for experiences across Signup, Enablement and Campaign Optimization. My teams focus on scaling and retaining a diverse set of global advertisers in the SMB and NBU (“Next Billion Users”) segments. ### Senior Product Designer @ WeWork Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California Spatial & People Analytics (SPA) is a close collaboration between WeFi (Formerly Euclid), Enterprise Technology and Teem. Our primary objective is to build an enterprise-ready Workplace Insights product for external customers. We have team members in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Salt Lake City. As a Product Designer I led projects across multiple product areas, contributed to our core design system and designed internal tooling to empower growth and help WeWork focus on profitability. 📈 Developing fresh and trending features 🔎 Launched 0 to 1 dashboard Skills: Design Strategy · Visioning · Voice Search · Search UX · GenAI · LLM UX · XFN Collaboration · ProtoPie ### Product Design Lead @ Prolific Interactive Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California • Led the design of StubHub's Super Bowl LIII 3D ticket buying experience, enhancing user engagement and sales. • Collaborated with founders on venture design product offerings, driving innovation and market expansion. • Designed native app experiences for Topps and Gap Inc, optimizing user experience and brand loyalty. ### Product Designer @ Glassdoor Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mill Valley, CA Glassdoor's mission is to help people everywhere find a job and company they love. In my time there I led the redesign of their homepage and search UI, restructured site IA, designed search tag functionality, created an illustration library and guidelines for Product and designed post-registration onboarding. I also collaborated on B2C and B2B feature development redesigning native ads across all screens. ### Art Director @ Ziff Davis Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California Ziff Davis is an industry-leading media publisher in the Tech, Gaming and Men’s Lifestyle verticals. Associated brands include AskMen, IGN (Internet Gaming News) and PC Mag. Designed and developed mobile sites, web apps, email templates (HTML5), landing pages for fortune 500 partners. Successful brands served: Adobe, Apple, Canon, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung. Led Visual Design team to consistent revenue growth (specifically in the Media segment of J2 global) of 21% overall from 2013-2014. Ziff Davis is a division of j2 Global, Inc. (NASDAQGS:JCOM). Skills Developed: Art Direction, Design Production, Creative Direction, Branding and Identity, UI/UX, Web Layout, Illustration. ## Education ### (Unfinished) Master of Fine Arts in Web Design and New Media Academy of Art University ### Business Administration in Marketing California State University, Fresno ### General Undergraduate Education College of the Sequoias ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshua-ramires-5a72539 - Portfolio: https://www.joshuaramires.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshuaramires JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshuaramires/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25