United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Product Design

B.A.

Eli Ferrer

Senior Manger of Product Design

Usability Testing

Monetisation

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Accessibility

AI/ML

Brand strategy

Conversational AI

Content strategy

Data visualisation

Design systems

Illustration

Information architecture

LinkedIn writing

User research

Product roadmap

WordPress

Adobe XD

ChatGPT

Figma

Greenhouse

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), the world's work marketplace.

Responsible for setting the UX Vision over the Payments & Services Foundations: PayEx, PayPl, PayTax, PayFx (Foreign Exchange) and Work Management teams. Developing a platform to support multiple geographies carries with it many challenges, empathy for our customers, advocate and deliver impactful experiences that connect to their goals and create great outcomes, the belief here is that in the end, the customer experience is a derivative of the platforms capabilities. 

Managing the growth, quality of work, tactical tradeoffs and partnering with other cross-functional partners across Upwork in an effort to balance design excellence and roadmap completion. Delivering impact in these three buckets: Purpose, People, Process.

Purpose and Process: expert collaborator across the Payments business unit to advocate for product consistency through all end-to-end design strategies and initiatives for work streams within the three platform teams: encompassing PayEx, PayTax and Work Management foundations via our dynamic dual-sided marketplace B2B & B2E Services.

People and their Values: continuously demonstrate exceptional leadership in managing product design teams by setting the UX vision, developing platforms across multiple geographies, and advocating for impactful customer experiences as our products evolve and refine in our marketplace. I focus on mentoring and coaching, fostering a diverse and inclusive community, creating growth opportunities for team members, and motivating them to achieve their professional goals. Additionally, I excel in cross-functional collaboration, streamlining processes, and driving design excellence.

Identified high-impact opportunities for our PayEx/Tax and Contracts initiatives:
+ User specific in-app moments in contract management capabilities.  
• Increase the average bonus, and hourly rate per contract. (fcst. $1.9M) 
• Improve tax compliance from 95% to 100% (est. exposure $5M) 
• Expand Indirect Tax to additional 49 countries (est. exposure $12M)
• Migrate card payment processing as painless debit routing (Braintree, est. impact of $1.5M)
+ Membership upgrade/downgrade journeys that improved sentiment and increased adoption (CSAT, NPS) & (checkout bounce rate)
+ Promotional code tooling for external partnerships (est. impact $6.8M annually)
+ Optimized experiences that positively impacted retention, acquisition, and overall revenue growth. 
• Increased 1% of offer acceptance and decreased cancellations to contracts, (est. impact $3M)

Made a concerted effort to enable talent on platform stand out and highlight their unique skills, through Availability Badges, Boosted Proposals and new Boosted Profiles. Our suite of ads & monetization products are the fasting growing revenue in ’23.  
+ Established the growth and evolution of pricing experience design strategy by collaborating closely with executive leadership, revenue strategy & cross functional partners to build a conversion engine that drove growth in under 2 years: 
• Boosted Proposals - Availability Badge refresh (adoption, fix forgetfulness $1.1M baseline), 
• Launching elastic slotting (est. impact of $4.5M)
+ Prioritizing clarity of information and contextual timing of upgrade moments, building trust and confidence in product. 
• Boosted Profiles 11-12M unique searches per year, (est. impact of $3.9M)
+ Connected end to end experiences in key initiatives to drive revenue growth for all in-app conversion, transition, retention and promotion efforts across multiple channels.  
• Monetization: Double our subscriber penetration to 23% (from 11.5%) of active FLs (est. impact of $12.5M annually)

Mentoring designers who are looking for career and portfolio advice, as well as design leads who are seeking support building collaborative, creative, and engaged teams on all levels. Seek me out and let's have a virtual coffee and donut!

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Responsible for setting the UX Vision over a major area of functionality and business perspectives on the Platform (Match & Search) team, managing the approach, quality of work, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders. Aligned in these three buckets: Purpose, People, Process.

Purpose and Process: lead and support all end-to-end design strategies and initiatives for work streams within the Platforms team: encompassing Search, Match, Data Standardization, Messaging and Application Platforms in a dynamic dual-sided marketplace for B2B and B2C.

Drive an innovative and entrepreneurial culture by delivering thoughtful, explorative MVPs designed to learn from and iterate with curiosity around our customers, build empathy for their needs, advocate for them and deliver impactful experiences that connect to their goals and create great outcomes for our own teams business verticals. 

People and Values: mentor and coach, commitment to a diversity, challenge the status quo, hold others accountable and make diversity and inclusion a priority and how it deepens an understanding of why their work matters, what success looks like, and continuous motivation to help them achieve their goals and how it all creates a story around how it connects to our company's mission.

Led a growing enterprise mid-sized team of strategic design thinkers Researchers + Designers. Branched out into two specific avenues, built on design team development and team direction. 

Delivering on innovative end-to-end user experiences that empower and unblock our customers needs, hiring, coaching, and mentoring on inclusive practices within our business and team goals. 
I also focus on providing the design direction within both the technological realities across web, mobile, and conversational paths within our enterprise SaaS platforms, but also providing insights , feedback, and being an influencer on clear collaborative and transformational areas within our product pillars. 

All this while also being the ambassador / champion advocate for our design system “VOLT”, accessibility, tooling, and cross functional partnerships, leading with a team-first mindset focusing on the customer-backed principles and frameworks. I’m a masterful storyteller, able to influence a broad audience with ideation and strategic concepts for internal leaders, partners, and customers, illuminating it all with simplicity, despite the complexity of the system.

Led strategic design thinkers : UX = Researchers + Designers who unpack complex business and consumer “Human” challenges. Building clarity and design thinking to strategic markets in which they operate, build, deploy, and manage our enterprise SAAS products within the Logistics and Network Optimization/Transportation portfolios covering both B2B & B2G models that ship to hundreds of thousands of customers.

Empower multidisciplinary teams to help define, develop and enhance our Design System “Volt” and Brand Design language principles to produce iconic user experiences and design practices, ensuring our expert practitioners are framing the right customer challenges, creating innovative and disruptive experiences to highlight their differentiation, and delivering measurable value to support their enterprise objectives, as they undergo a digital transformation. Developing for Cloud-based tools accessed via mobile, web-browser or desktop applications.

Our mission is to advance the practice of design leadership by fostering a community where the world’s best can learn from one another. Making these forums inclusive and relevant to those confronting the challenges of leading design teams.

Sr. UX Manager leading a team of Researchers and Product Designers through the next generation of our SaaS logistic experiences. Focusing on user advocacy and human centered design practices all central to the core values and principles within our product focus.

As a leader, balancing my focusing on team development and design direction. Encouraging and seek out opportunities for coaching, mentoring, and empowering career growth for team as well as hiring people that are passionate and deepen diversity within our teams. Fostering frequent communication in design strategy and vision, to ensure the "why" and actionable results are meet throughout the product lifecycle.

Led a multi-disciplinary guild of team members to help develop & re-imagine what is cutting-edge technology within the end-to-end shopping experience for Home Depot's $5B+ B2C & B2B E-commerce models. My responsibilities ranged from leveraging and expanding all new experimental content to communicate this in all forms within: Design, Business, Technology & Hiring. To effectively translate across all internal/external cross functional partners via the VoC & strategic Insights, while monitoring the user experience (UX) or brand standards across the integrated CX.
• Define Standards: gather input across all product portfolios to define a Design System that is viable, scalable & strengthens the brand through consistency across cross-portfolios, multi-disciplinary peers to contribute its evolution. Scaling decision-making on standards & exceptions.
• Product Management: manage & scale prioritization of roadmap & backlog of vertical components & features. Evolving a scalable THD design system while partnering with product owners to define scope & timing for implementation on interconnectivity (Go-to-Market) & improve an overall advanced customer experience. 
• Champion on excellence: evolving strategy & alignment on research & discovery activities to assess the efficiency of the UX identity & implement quality, consistency, & usefulness of related product pillars & vital peer to peer mentorship. 
• Communication + Documentation = Education: ensure all team members have access to the tools & guidelines they need to adopt the THD DS. Gather input regularly from team members & key partners to identify successes, challenges, & perspectives on KPI’s & ROI within impactful business growth.
• Establish Standards: hyper team growth, org structure; align design, research, and development processes; establish partnerships inside & outside company to evolve the product experience & improve the internal product development for one of the world's most successful retailers.

Define and implementing concepts into fully integrated campaigns, producing high-quality visual designs-UX/UI within design rules, pixel perfect mockups, animations, the daily grind! 
I spend must of my time breaking bread with these lovely brands: DELL, FEDEX, COCA-COLA, POWERADE.

Providing leadership in strategic and business based, communication, digitized and gamification, ideation, development and implementation, within social, digital and all multicultural categories, on various enterprise and implemented touch points within each global brand.

As an Interactive Designer at Sapient, I had the amazing opportunity to design, concept, and Art Direct various interactive projects, while managing a large body of work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, for clients such as Dodge, Dove, Unilever, Citi and others. 

Expertise in Design & Front-end development and animation, 
Object-oriented programming, HTML, CSS, JAVA. Via web-browser or desktop app or mobile applications

My role as a Interactive Art Director (Digital Creative) was to design, development, prototype, and test strategically sound, conceptually based, iconic digital experiences across various devices and platforms.

I had the pleasure of working for clients such as Diageo, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Reebok, Adidas, as well as new business pitch proposals, where I've designed and animated a variety of interactive experiences.

Expertise in Art Direction, Design & Front-end development and animation,
Object-oriented programming, HTML, CSS, JAVA.

• working with team members to develop retail ideas for in-store demonstrations, with brands such as: Nestlé, Reckitt Benckisr, Walmart, and Disney.
• actualize new opportunities for the in-store experience with unique ways of displaying product brands.
• expanding custom designs to reflect a brand, enforce a visual language, and inject cutting-edge beauty and life into a product.

Clients included:
• Nestlé / Más de Nestlé (National)
• Reckitt Benckiser
• Walmart
• Disney
• ConAgra (Puerto Rico)

•generating innovative ideas and creative strategy for interactive and print materials.
•creating concepts, design executions, and illustrations for three projects with an online to print median.
•development of online brand identities for ad campaign, as well as oversee client design standards.

Expertise with Design & Front-end development and animation,
Object-oriented programming, HTML, CSS, JAVA.

• contributing to the development of dynamic interactive experiences.
• work with internal and external designers, writers, and production agencies/clients to create social interactive applications for: Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, and Heineken. 
• visualizing conceptual design and prototypes for online digital interactive and marketing experienced based campaigns.

Expertise in Design & Front-end development and animation

• shaping the graphic style of the nation’s most iconic 
alternative weekly.
• managing photo shoots for seasonal guides, reducing 
production costs on page count.

• color correction / vector / retouching / compositing / pre-press.
• push creativity, challenge established thinking, discover new ways of approaching (and solving) a problem.

•print / identity / packaging / audio &amp; video production

•Identity & Branding / 3d modeling / image retouching

Eli Ferrer🇺🇸