Hi there! I'm Valeria. I am a designer, learner, and skilled communicator - among many things. My curiosity for learning and problem-solving has motivated my interest in User Experience Design. This field has challenged me to find better ways to help people connect, create, and communicate through digital innovation.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
• Led end-to-end UX design for the Tasker app and Customer Support tooling from discovery research through to shipped, production-ready designs.
• Conducted user interviews, usability tests, and moderated research sessions to surface friction points, translating findings into actionable design decisions that improved client satisfaction ratings, ticket resolution time, and operational efficiency.
• Built and maintained a library of reusable design system components in Figma for our internal tooling, enabling faster, more consistent shipping across all product teams.
• Integrated AI tooling like Figma Make, Bolt, Lovable, Figma MCP, and VSCode to build, prototype, and ship design solutions quickly, reducing design time by ~20%.
• Partnered closely with product managers and engineers in Agile sprints by contributing to roadmap prioritization, writing design specs, and reviewing implementation for design fidelity.
• Used AI research synthesis tools (Dovetail / Notebook LM) to process qualitative data at scale, cutting analysis time by ~40% and surfacing themes across 50+ user sessions.
• Facilitated cross-functional design reviews and workshops, aligning design team and external stakeholders on design direction and reducing revision cycles.
2023 — 2025
2023 — 2025
San Francisco, California, United States
• Own the end-to-end design system for MonetizeNow's product suite by architecting components, establishing contribution guidelines, and partnering with engineering to maintain token-level consistency across web and mobile.
• Drive a 20% improvement in feature adoption by rapidly iterating on UX for key product enhancements, running usability tests, synthesizing findings, and delivering high-fidelity prototypes in tight sprint cycles.
• Spearhead complex, cross-functional product initiatives from 0→1 translating ambiguous business goals into clearly scoped design solutions while advocating for user needs at the executive level.
• Led a full company rebrand and marketing website redesign overseeing visual direction, information architecture, and stakeholder alignment from brief to launch.
• Facilitate weekly design syncs and cross-functional reviews, fostering a culture of transparent feedback and reducing alignment cycles across product, engineering, and marketing.
2023 — 2023
2023 — 2023
• Led design while participating in the AI Forge Incubator program to spearhead the implementation of innovative AI solutions for the official product launch in 2024.
• Conducted a market analysis and user interviews with 10 current students to make data-driven product decisions.
• Accelerated design execution by establishing a new design system, brand library, and website layouts.
• Led ideation, digital strategy, and product execution for the new BookMark’d website across devices and services.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
• Led UX/UI Design in a team of 8 people to navigate all seller-facing projects by creating concepts, visual mockups and specifications, and representing designs to the Community Content team.
• Learned 5 design systems for seller and buyer platforms (including Instagram, Facebook, Meta Business Suite, Commerce Manager, and Shopify) to design solutions and cooperate with teams on all 5 products.
• Partnered horizontally across teams to streamline the functionality and design of Community Content features on all platforms, which increased the total number of sellers using these tools by 81%.
• Conceived, planned and led the development of 3 new features and UI improvements to the end-to-end business experience on Facebook and Instagram.
• Upheld a high-quality bar by driving end-to-end consistency, designing in both dark and light mode, ensuring quality goals were integrated into team roadmaps, and pressure testing all design scenarios to ensure scalability.
• Facilitated design workshops and knowledge shares of the Seller Experiences space, positively influencing the product roadmap to prioritize improvements to seller tools, which helps over half of users.
2022 — 2022
• Delivered a high-fidelity app design for an e-commerce brand after wireframing, brainstorming, and iterating closely with the client to ensure final deliverables met their goals while advocating for the needs of real users.
• Redesigned a user-centered website interface to maximize user engagement and cement the new brand identity.
• Crafted brand guidelines and logo designs for two key clients which expanded company design services and increased client engagement.
Education
University of Florida
Master of Arts - MA
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science - BS
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science - BS
University of Florida