# Thiago Duarte > Senior Product Designer @ DoorDash Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/thiagoduarte As a Creative Director, Product at Elephant, I lead the design of beautiful, well crafted, and scalable experiences for clients like Apple, Discovery Channel, Domino's, EA Games, Fiat, Motorola, Twitch, and Twitter. I have over a decade of experience in product design, user experience testing, and web development, using tools such as Figma and Protopie. My mission is to create superb user experiences that solve the business challenges of our clients and delight their customers. I work collaboratively with a talented team of designers, developers, and strategists, contributing to the development of experience concepts, prototypes, and strategies. I also present the work from concept to execution, ensuring the overarching vision is infused into every aspect of the solution. www.tduarte.co ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ DoorDash Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Trabalhando na experiencia criada para nossos Dashers (entregadores da plataforma). ### Creative Director, Product @ Elephant Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Associate Creative Director, Product @ Elephant Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area In my role as Associate Creative Director, I lead and inspire a team of designers by providing creative direction and constructive feedback to create elegant and user-friendly experiences. I collaborate closely with product managers and strategists to shape our projects' strategy, ensuring that user needs and business goals are transformed into compelling products. I also serve as a bridge between the design and engineering teams, ensuring the standards of deliverables are met and that our designs are faithfully implemented in the final product. I present and defend my design decisions to stakeholders and executive teams, making certain that our design solutions align with user needs and business objectives. Clients: The Sims, Domino's, Nespresso, Apple ### Design Lead, Product @ Elephant Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States As a Design Lead at Elephant, I handled larger or more complex projects and accounts. I was responsible for developing experience concepts to solve business challenges and for presenting my work from concept to execution. I worked quickly and collaboratively, performing rapid prototyping to validate design solutions and creating high-fidelity prototypes for user/usability testing. I was highly detail-oriented, capable of organizing complex design systems to create a cohesive vision and solution, and I contributed to the development of experience strategies. I approached problems from both conceptual and executional levels, ensuring that the overarching vision was infused into every aspect of a project. I provided direction and leadership to experience designers on my project teams, accurately scoped the design phases of projects, and participated in pitches and industry events as required. Clients: Apple, Beats by Dre, Twitch ### Senior Product Designer @ Elephant Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California Senior Product Designers are integral to the Elephant process and are key members of the teams that define the success of so many of our clients online today. Senior Product Designers lead research and strategy, information architecture, and interaction design to create superb user experiences. Senior Product Designers develop and understand the business requirements of our clients then translate them into experiences their customers will love. Clients: Twitter, Apple Support, Apple Pay ### Senior Product Designer @ Huge Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil Senior Product Designers communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually in a way that is both effective and captivating. They have a high level of autonomy and they manage the product design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules. They also help to mentor and grow other interaction and visual designers on project teams. Clients: Stellantis, BV Financeira, Banco de Bogotá, Banco Davivienda, Itaú, Twitter ### Product Designer @ Huge Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Product Designers at Huge are responsible for designing elegant, simple, hard-working interfaces that will be used by millions of people every day. We work closely with Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and Developers to concept, design, prototype, test, and iterate products until they meet our high standards of quality. A successful Product Designer has an eagerness to jump in and solve problems and a unique combination of proven talent and ability in interface design, visual design and basic coding. Product designers are often asked to quickly come up with game changing ideas and make them come to life for Huge clients. Clients: Stellantis ### Associate Product Designer @ Huge Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Worked closely with Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, and Developers to concept, design, prototype, test, and iterate products until they meet our high standards of quality. Product designers are often asked to quickly come up with game changing ideas and make them come to life for Huge clients. Clients: Discovery Channel, Estadão, Motorola ### Instructor @ trampos.co Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | São Paulo Area, Brazil Teacher in the "Master Class"​, a UX Bootcamp by Huge and trampos.co During this Bootcamp, were taught the concepts and (much) practice of how to create successful digital products. In addition, techniques, and procedures used at Huge to get the best result. ### UX Designer and Frontend Developer @ Oro Digital Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 As an UI/UX Designer at ORO Digital I worked doing concepts apps and projects for Cozinhas Itatiaia, Governo de Minas and other great clients. ### Designer @ Nemer Fornaciari Design Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ## Education ### Graphic Design Bachelor in Graphic Design Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thiagoin - Portfolio: http://www.tduarte.co --- Source: https://flows.cv/thiagoduarte JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thiagoduarte/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13