# Mariana Torres > Sr. Product Designer & Design Engineer | AI · XR · Spatial Interfaces Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marianatorres My career started in architecture: designing cities, neighborhoods, buildings. The shift to digital felt inevitable: same question, different medium. How do people actually experience this? That question has taken me from CAD to Figma to Claude Code. The tools keep changing. The learning curve gets shorter every time because the underlying thinking doesn't. My background isn't a detour, it's why I see problems differently. Today I work at the intersection of AI, XR, and product design, not just designing experiences but building them. Most designers hand off. I ship. Originally from Mexico with Brazilian roots, Berkeley-educated, Bay Area-based. Open to full-time roles and consulting engagements. ## Work Experience ### Experience Designer | Consulting @ Unknown Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area SaaS & E-commerce Products Designing and building Party Place, a multi-tenant venue management SaaS for Mexican venue operators, 0 to launch. Produced AI-assisted mid-to-high fidelity prototypes to validate flows and secure client buy-in. Designed and built Chez Violette, a bilingual ordering platform, solo in ~10 hours using AI-assisted development. Achieved 82% online adoption in week one, migrating a fully paper-based operation and reducing order management by 90 min/week and earnings reconciliation from ~1 hr to instant. XR & AI Applications Built HypnoSphere, a speech-to-speech AI hypnotherapy app, and Furnish Your Home, an AR visualization tool using spatial scanning and real-time interaction. Wearable Design | AI-Powered Imaging Device Led product and brand design for a stealth biotech startup. Collaborated with engineers and AI scientists to design form factors for an AI-powered imaging device. ### Sr UX Designer @ Insight Global Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Remote Promoted to senior, taking on cross-team leadership and a third product vertical: Led as senior designer mentoring junior designers and partnering across product and engineering Recruiting Platform: Increased consultant relationships by ~20%, reducing mid-contract drop-outs and contributing to ~10% lift in lead generation through cross-platform data sharing with CRM ### UX Designer @ Insight Global Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Remote Led UX across two core products, driving adoption and design system foundations: Custom CRM: Replaced legacy tools, cutting workflows by 59% and driving adoption from 15% to 80% Design System: Built a scalable system across products, reducing team onboarding time by 30% ### Architect | Urban Designer @ Van Meter Williams Pollack Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed buildings, master plans, and neighborhood guidelines, shaping large-scale urban projects now in development. Led multi-disciplinary teams across architecture, civil engineering, and landscape architecture, coordinating directly with cities and affordable housing developers. The spatial design principles developed here, systems thinking, human-scale environments, navigating complexity across stakeholders, now directly inform my approach to XR interfaces, 3D product design, and spatial UX. ### Project Architect @ KVR Arquitectura de Paisaje Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mexico City, Mexico Managed and designed diverse small landscape projects. In charge of design, architectonic layout, construction details, 3D Modeling, presentation of site plans and vegetation palettes. ### Intern @ Secretaria de Urbanismo y Medio Ambiente Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico Social service as part of the Architecture Program ### Program Coordinator @ Consejo Nacional de Estudiantes de Arquitectura, México Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Luis Potosí, Mexico Member of CONEA as state coordinator for national and international events. ## Education ### Master in Urban Design in Architecture and Urban Design and Planning University of California, Berkeley ### Interaction Design & Prototyping for XR in Extended Reality Circuit Stream ### UX Designer / UI Designer / Frontend Development in Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design CareerFoundry ### Bachelor in Architecture in Architecture Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí ### Exchange student - Architecture in Architecture Universidade de Brasília ### Music intensive summer courses in Music Conservatorio de las Rosas ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mtsalomao - Portfolio: https://www.mtsalomao.com/ - GitHub: https://github.com/matosalomao --- Source: https://flows.cv/marianatorres JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marianatorres/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13