julianaossa

Senior Staff Product Designer

I'm a product designer with a passion for making the internet more expressive and inclusive. I've build digital experiences and products for brands like BMW, Mercedes Benz, Verizon, Microsoft, Comedy Central, American Express and National Geographic. I was one of the first design hires at Giphy where I helped design and scale their platform. I designed an accessibility-focused design system for 2U, a learning management tool. I helped build a mentorship platform startup. At Google I worked for a think tank focused on Google’s future, with a particular emphasis on sustainability. Currently I work at Sunrun running a team of designers building tools internal tools for growth.

Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $200,000

Hourly rate: $90

Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States

Residency: 🇺🇸 United States


Experience

Product Design Director Consultant
Keyway
2023 - 2023
Set up product process: roadmap, user testing, ux and product ceremonies. Created 0-1 product development. Created a digital visual language and beginning of their design system.
Staff Designer
Google
2022 - 2022
I worked at Google for the Long-term Bets. This is a cross-functional team of designers, researchers, strategists and product managers focused on Google’s future. My role in the team was to be a design liaison between Strategy and Research. I make high level ideas come to life through research and prototyping.
Guest Lecturer
Fashion Institute of Technology
2020 - 2021
Participated in lectures on how to create a scalable, end to end, brand cohesive design system.
Founding Product Designer
Bonsai
2019 - 2021
As head of product design I've helped spearhead Bonsai's product from conception. I've worked on ideating and designing our MVP. Run our design sprints and retros. Created our full scalable design system. Helped grow and lead our design and engineering team. Lead our V1 feature launch, roadmap and KPI strategy.
Director Of Product Design
2U
2018 - 2019
Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of UX Designers; lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices. Deliver a UX vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time. Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core product team to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed. Foster 2U’s culture and principles within the group, while setting new standards of excellence. Oversee usability and contextual research. Apply and inform new product and features based on research. Create a scalable design system and a design process to manager and use design components internally as well as deliver effectively to the engineering team. Meets current web accessibility standards across all products, ui elements, colors and components.
Design Director
KBS (kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners)
2017 - 2018
Oversee the Digital Design team. Direct digital marketing campaigns. Lead UX and UI design for web and Digital products. Lead Design in New Business initiatives.
Director Of Product Design
GIPHY
2015 - 2017
Lead UX and UI design for all giphy.com. Collaborate with engineering team, project manager and internal and external stakeholders to create design strategy for new Giphy products. Grow and mentor design team, manage designer and helping their career growth and goal achievements. Full Re-design Giphy.com. Turning giphy.com from a search site to an entertainment hub for sharing, consuming and creating gifs. Create a digital brand, brand guidelines and UI kit for web-product mobile product and digital marketing. Oversee designers and brand team making sure the Giphy digital brand was consistent across all platforms. Work in a lean agile process with a small team to ensure all products were launched according to our yearly product goals.
Senior Digital Art Director
Freelance (Self employed)
2014 - 2015
Worked with clients such as BMW, Sony, Microsoft, Maybeline, Prego, Vanguard, AMEX.
Interactive Art Director
Huge
2013 - 2013
Designed and concepted UX and UI for a financial mobile app to help AMEX clients choose the right card for them. Designed and concepted UX for the rewards site for Chase Bank.
Freelance Interactive Art Director
Isobar
2013 - 2013
Designed and concepted UX and UI for the re-design of national geographic television.
Freelance Interactive Art Director
Hudson Rouge
2013 - 2013
Concepted and designed the re-design of Lincoln.com.
Digital Art Director
Droga5
2013 - 2014
Art direction on Moto 360 digital watch microsite and social campaign. Art direction on branding and campaign look and feel for Motorola choose choice campaign for their new product bundle: moto hint, moto 360, moto x, moto g. Art direction on photoshoot and digital assets delivery for all of motorola.com.
Freelance Interactive Art Director
R/GA
2012 - 2013
Redesign UX and UI or Microsoft surface website. Concepted and art directed the digital and TV videos for the launch of microsoft surface. Concepted and oversaw surface digital marketing and banner ads.
Freelance Senior Digital Designer
Wieden + Kennedy
2012 - 2012
Design and concepting for Sony campaign microsite and OLA. Design and concepting for Microsite for Dodge Dart.
Freelace Senior Digital Designer
R/GA
2012 - 2012
Explore UX and UI for different sections of the verizon website. Collaborated in UX and UI pitch work for Verizon new business, NIKE and Turner Sports.
Freelance Senior UX Designer
Carnevale Interactive
2011 - 2012
UX and AI design for new business work.
Senior Digital Designer
SapientRazorfish
2011 - 2011
Designed and concepted OLA campaign for Mercedes Benz M-class. Designed and concepted Smart Car’s website and OLA.
Freelance Digital Designer
ipartners
2011 - 2011
UX and UI design.
Freelance Graphic Designer
Ziga Design
2011 - 2011
Print design for children's books.
Freelance Visual Designer
New York City Ballet
2010 - 2010
Design print marketing collaterals and internal print material like their play books for the summer ballet programs. Design Banners, emailers and other digital marketing material.
Brand Designer
Marqas
2007 - 2008
Logo creation, and 360 brand exploration. Design for marketing collaterals, brand guidelines and website design.
Visual Designer
Cw-x sportswear / Teiji Fujii
2006 - 2007
Maintain company website. Retouch photo assets, for print and digital. Design their marketing collateral. Art direct their photoshoots for their new collections.

Skills

brand-designer
head-of-design
product-designer
product-lead
research
ui-ux-designer
web-designer
design
english
spanish