# 🏔 Omar S.

> Product design lead in Sports, Streaming, Blockchain and Travel.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/omars

NO AGENCY RECRUITERS. Experienced full stack Product Designer.

Experience working in an agile environment (Jira, Confluence).

Highly familiar with front end development technologies and working closely with engineering teams.

Experience using iterative product design processes. Ideation, User Insight, Data, Design and then work closely with engineering, pm and other stakeholders during the building process. 

Tools familiar with Sketch, Figma, InVision, Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe AfterEffects.

## Work Experience
### User Experience Lead @ Backroads
Jan 2022 – Present

### Lead Product Designer @ Afar Media
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
UI/UX for booking pages and others for Afar.com desktop and mobile.  Conduct qualitative user interviews, affinity mapping, wire framing, prototyping and visual design. Work with the data team, marketing and management team to make informed design decisions and continuously iterate.

### Lead Instructor @ General Assembly
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Design Mentor @ General Assembly
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States

### Lead Designer @ BitMovio
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
Create design (UI/UX) for a mobile/web gamified video streaming platform.  Worked in a fast paced startup environment to create mockups, final designs to improve the look and feel of the product and the user flow.  Designed new screens as well as modify previously created items.  
iPhone app
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitmovio/id1436731109?ls=1

Web 
https://v.bitmov.io/

### Lead Product Designer @ IndieWire
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Manhattan, New York, United States
Redesigned Indiewire.com for responsive web and web, iOS/Android apps, and vertical Saas products.
Worked in an Agile environment.

### I traveled around the world @ N/A
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Took time off to travel.

### Lead Designer @ Sports Illustrated
Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | Manhattan, New York, United States
Interface design, animation, stylesheets, mobile/app designs, branding.. Responsible for the UX/UI and Visual for the entire brand. In my five years working for this digital brand, I worked on a couple of redesigns of GOLF.com, created front9 iphone/ipad app and Facebook app.

### Junior Designer @ Hearst
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | New York
Worked as an editorial designer for both magazine publication and web. Worked with writers and photographers/illustrators to create COMFORTABLE to understand magazine layouts under suggestion of the Creative Director.

### Graphic Designer @ Working Mother Media
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | New York City
Creating graphics for charts, illustrations and finishing layout design of Working Mother Media magazines. Also spent time on photo shoots for magazines.


## Education
### School of Visual Arts

### BA of Arts in Electronic Design
The City College of New York


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/productdsgn

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Source: https://flows.cv/omars
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/omars/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13