# Manoel Sousa > Senior Product Designer | Growth Product Designer | UX Engineer Location: Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil Profile: https://flows.cv/manoel As a Product Designer, I am deeply committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation in design. With extensive experience in both UX and UI design, I lead with a user-centric approach, ensuring that web and mobile applications are not just visually appealing but also intuitive and accessible. My expertise spans the full spectrum of the UX process, enriched by diverse project experiences and proficiency in agile methodologies. I thrive in collaborative environments, working seamlessly with cross-functional teams to transform ideas into engaging and functional designs. I am proficient in a variety of design tools, including Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, and Framer. My technical skills extend to front-end development, where I leverage HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React (including React Native) to bring designs to life, ensuring a seamless bridge between design and development. As an audiovisual enthusiast, I have honed my skills in motion design using Adobe After Effects and Lottie, adding a dynamic layer to user experiences. This fusion of design, technology, and motion graphics allows me to contribute to projects in a holistic manner, resulting in products that are not only functional but also engaging and memorable. In my role, I aim to mentor junior designers, advocate for user-centric design practices, and drive innovation in every project, ensuring that each design solution not only meets but exceeds user expectations and business goals. ## Work Experience ### Senior Growth Product Designer @ Toptal Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 At Toptal, I had the opportunity to design various growth marketing initiatives across projects to address our goals related to new client acquisition and innovative service approaches. I was responsible not only for the conceptual designs but also for optimizing some page conversions, where we were able to incorporate marketing feedback and make improvements that increased user engagement with Toptal's services. ### Growth Product Designer @ Toptal Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Senior UX Designer | Product Designer | Developer @ oowlish Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Fortaleza e Região, Brasil Described as per client. ### Senior Product Designer - Octane Lending (Via Oowlish) @ Octane Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil I worked with a consumer squad on top of an MVP redesign for the loan portal for the Octane customers to help them manage the loans, payments, and related services. Also, I'm working with a multidisciplinary team to build a design system that will cover the different products across the company, like the dealer portal and partners portal. ### Scrum Master - Toteemi (Via Oowlish) @ Toteemi Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Most recently, I had a chance to integrate this team and explore my team/ project management skills as a Scrum Master. In this short time, we had a chance to accomplish a few sprints and explore the best practices of agile development methods. ### Senior Product Designer & UX Engineer (Via Oowlish) @ Lettuce Grow Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil I started working on Lettuce Grow with the duty to apply the redesign elaborated by the design team build a design system using React and build a solid boilerplate to be the foundation of the commerce and the following pages of the website. After this first redesign, I worked with the business team and marketing team on top of the pages and different approaches with the clients to introduce the product and improve sales conversion. On a second moment, I worked with the team to code the v2 of the Lettuce Grow app, and later I worked to help build the v3 of the app with new features to help create a continuous shopping and maintenance experience to improve the success of the customers on the growing process. Besides the design work and development work, I also worked on top of the performance improvements on the website and product design process. ### UX/UI Designer & UX Engineer - Petco Insurance (Via Oowlish) @ Petco Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Working on Petco Insurance, beyond the creation of the SaaS platform (B2B and later a D2C), I was part of the tech team responsible to create and implement a Design System to be shared across different digital products from Petco. As a result, we create the Petco UI, a shared UI component lib that is used in digital services and other applications based on the brand and visual identity to provide consistent and a solid experience for the users. Besides it, I worked on the WCAG and Accessibility compliance projects. Using Adobe XD and later React I worked on the platform construction and later on the redesign and WCAG compliance based on accessibility reports and UX research about our customer behavior. ### UX Designer (Via Oowlish) @ Amazing Athletes Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil Working closely with the business team, we do redesign and improvements on top of the partner's flow and class management system. We use the customer and partners' feedback to improve the user experience on the platform. ### UX Designer / UX Engineer - Petcoach by Petco (Via Oowlish) @ PetCoach (acquired by Petco) Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil In the first couple of months, I joined the PetCoach team as a UX Designer, I had to work on top of the designs for the commerce project designed to support the PetCoach stores. After this, I start work on PetCoach projects such as PetCoach Membership and PetCoach Wellness insurance. The design process was defined and executed with a multidisciplinary team, involving product managers, product designers, and developers as well. My work routine was to work on top of the designs for the different pages based on the PM requirements, validate and code the pages with HTML and CSS, and do a handoff process with the frontend team. ### IT Manager @ Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Ceará Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Fortaleza e Região, Brasil As an IT Manager, I am responsible for coordinating and leading the IT needs of the Secretary of the Environment. ### Assessor de Pojetos Especiais @ Secretaria do Meio Ambiente (SEMA) Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 I was responsible about the projects and publicity of the Secretary of Environment. Most of the projects were related to innovation and strategies to improve sustainability in different layers of the community. ### Ghost writer @ Assessoria Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Fortaleza e Região, Brasil ### Coordenador @ EEM Gov. Adauto Bezerra Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Coordenar as atividades do curso preparatório para o ENEM e UECE, além de colaborar com a articulação do trabalho do corpo docente. ### Professor @ EEM Gov. Adauto Bezerra Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Ministrar aulas de História para turmas de terceiro ano visando a preparação dos alunos para o ENEM, UECE, entre outros concursos. ### Assessor Parlamentar @ Congresso Nacional Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Ministrar palestras voltadas para a educação, além de produzir materiais. ### Escritor @ Armazém da Cultura Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Coautor do livro: BRUNO, A.; SAMPAIO, D.; SOUSA, M. Atualidades do Brasil e do Mundo. Fortaleza: Armazém da Cultura, 2014. ISBN: 978-85-63171-95-5 ### Professor substituto @ Faculdade 7 de Setembro Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Ministrar aulas na disciplina de Filosofia Geral, substituindo o professor José Medeiros Neto. ### Pesquisador @ Portal da História Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Transcrição e leitura paleográfica de acervos documentais. ### Professor de História Geral. @ PNV (Projeto Novo Vestibular - UFC) Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 Ministrar aulas de História Geral, elaborar materiais didáticos e atividades pedagógicas relacionadas ao ensino de História, tais atividades que tem por objetivo o ingresso de alunos oriundos da rede pública de ensino no ensino superior. ### Bolsista de Extensão @ Casa José de Alencar - Universidade Federal do Ceará Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Responsável pelo levantamento, digitalização e catalogação do acervo de periódicos e das peças do Museu Arthur Ramos e transcrição de entrevistas. ### Professor substituto @ EEM Gov. Adauto Bezerra Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### Tecnologia da Informação Universidade de Fortaleza ### Licenciatura em História in Educação Federal University of Ceara ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manoel-sousa-designer --- Source: https://flows.cv/manoel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manoel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31