# Mariano Garcia > Product Design Leader at Instagram Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marianogarcia I'm a product design leader with more than 15 years of experience shipping digital products and building and managing design teams. I'm a strategic thinker, and I love creating software, helping organizations achieve their goals, and solving everyday problems for users. • Experience hiring and leading teams, supporting and mentoring designers, and managing critical projects to completion. • Expert in design concepts for web and mobile applications. • Advanced knowledge of Usability, User-interface Design and Information Architecture. • Deep understanding of web and native app production and development. • Proficient in semantic HTML and CSS. • Experience in advertising, brand identity development and design for print and analog media. • Fluent in written and spoken English, intermediate French student. Native Spanish speaker. Specialties: Design Leadership, Web Usability, User-Interface Design, Information Architecture, User-centered Design, User Experience, Search Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Data Visualization, Art Direction, HTML, CSS. ## Work Experience ### Product Design Manager @ Instagram Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Product Design Leader @ Meta Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Design Director @ Origin Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Product Design Manager @ Evernote Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California, United States ### Senior UX Designer, Search & Intelligent Experiences @ Evernote Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Redwood City, California ### Sr. Member of Technical Staff III, UX Design @ VMware Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA I worked in the Network & Security Business Unit, specifically on NSX, VMware's network virtualization platform. • User interface design. • Information architecture. • Usability testing. • Developing personas, use cases and design patterns. ### Principal Product Designer @ Globality, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA I joined this start-up at an early stage, being the first designer on staff, I helped establish a design process, build a team and develop a design system for its platform. • Product design: User interface design, usability testing, information architecture. • Hiring and coaching design team. • Print collateral design. ### Director of User Experience @ QuestionPro Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area I was responsible for managing QuestionPro's global User Experience operations for a wide range of desktop and mobile products and solutions. • Product design: web and native mobile applications. Usability testing. • Hiring and managing a team of designers and front-end developers. Project management. • Art direction: developing the brand and supporting the marketing and sales teams by coordinating collateral design tasks. ### Director of User Experience @ The UX Department Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA Mi objetivo es brindar mis conocimientos en experiencia de usuario y diseño a organizaciones que necesiten buenas estrategias de UX e interfaces sólidas, creando productos efectivos que no dejen de ser simples, atractivos y divertidos. Realmente disfruto trabajando con una gran variedad de clientes, resolviendo sus problemas, finalizando proyectos y viéndolos crecer. ### Founder / UX Designer @ The UX Department Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Tucumán, Argentina Comencé esta empresa después de adquirir más de 10 años de experiencia en diferentes puestos y compañías. Hasta ahora, ha sido genial ver cómo nuestro equipo y nuestra cartera de clientes crecen, se diversifican y aprenden unos de otros. Mi objetivo es brindar mis conocimientos en experiencia de usuario y diseño a organizaciones que necesiten buenas estrategias de UX e interfaces sólidas, creando productos efectivos que no dejen de ser simples, atractivos y divertidos. Realmente disfruto trabajando con una gran variedad de clientes, resolviendo sus problemas, finalizando proyectos y viéndolos crecer. • Diseño centrado en el usuario. Diseño de sitios, aplicaciones web y aplicaciones para móbiles. • Consultoría en usabilidad: testeo, evaluación heurística y diagnósticos. • Dirección de arte, desarrollo de conceptos. • Manejo de proyectos. Administración de la relación con clientes y proveedores. ### User Interface Designer @ Neatcraft Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Buenos Aires, Argentina • Administración de proyectos. Manejo de la relación con clientes y proveedores. Reclutamiento. • Consultoría en usabilidad web: testo y diagnósticos. • Diseño de sitios y aplicaciones web. • Diseño de plantillas para comercio electrónico, redes sociales, sistemas de administración de contenidos y blogs. ### User Experience Manager @ El Viaje de Odiseo Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Buenos Aires, Argentina • Especificación de aplicaciones y consultoría en usabilidad e interfaces de usuario. • A cargo de administrar la relación con proveedores de IT. Manejo de Proyectos. • Diseño de sitios y aplicaciones web. • Investigación y edición de textos para presentaciones, talleres, libros y otros materiales impresos. Actualización del blog corporativo. ### Co-founder, User Interface Designer, Content Manager @ Confronte.com Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Buenos Aires, Argentina • Creación y testeo de usabilidad de interfaz del sitio y aplicación web. • Coordinación del equipo para la redacción de contenido, corrección de textos. • Colaboración en planeamiento de campañas publicitarias y de marketing. ### Web Designer / Web Production Manager @ Avity Inc Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Buenos Aires, Argentina / New Haven, Connecticut Working from home for this New Haven-based digital agency, I started as a contractor, then became a full-time designer and eventually Web Production Manager. • Project management. • Gathering specifications for web applications • Consulting in usability and user interface design. • Creating wireframes and mock-ups for websites and web applications. • Web design, graphic design, logo design, multimedia design. • Managing the web production team and recruiting front-end developers. • Quality assurance: signing-off HTML documents CSS style sheets. ### Web Designer @ Smile&Soft Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Buenos Aires, Argentina • Website design. • User-interface design of web applications. • Graphic and multimedia design: corporate identity, print collateral, flash animations, and icons. • Project management. ### Art Director @ Estudio42 Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Tucuman, Argentina • Creation and production of concepts for websites and marketing campaigns. • Corporate identity design, website design, animated banner design. • Managing freelance photographers, illustrators and designers. ### Freelance Graphic Designer @ Self-employed Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Tucuman, Argentina • Diseño de logotipos e identidad corporativa, desarrollo de marcas, campañas publicitarias, diseño de packaging, diseño de sitios web y diseño editorial. ## Education ### Executive Master of Business Administration - EMBA in Business Administration, Management and Operations Quantic School of Business and Technology ### Bachelor in Psychology Universidad Nacional de Tucumán ### Certificate in Communication Design Centro de Arte y Diseño ### Bachelor’s Degree in Dual Major in Digital Communications Design and Psychology City Tech, CUNY ### Bachelor’s Degree in Web Design University of Bridgeport ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marianoagarcia - Portfolio: http://www.uxmariano.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/marianogarcia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marianogarcia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13