Alex Rivera — Senior Product Designer

Alex
Rivera

Senior Product Designer

Strategic designer with 8 years building products used by millions. I sit at the intersection of UX research, visual craft, and product thinking. Currently open to senior IC or design lead roles at high-growth startups.

alex@alexrivera.co

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+1 (415) 555-0182

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alexrivera.co

linkedin.com/in/alexrivera

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San Francisco, CA (Open to remote)

Experience

Lead Product Designer

2023 — Present

Nova Platform · Series B · San Francisco

Led redesign of core dashboard serving 5,200+ customers — improved task completion rate from 61% to 84%.
Built and scaled the design system from 40 components to 180+, reducing new feature design time by 60%.
Managed 3 junior designers; introduced weekly design critiques and pair-design sessions that raised team quality scores.
Owned the 0→1 design of Nova Analytics (Q2 2025 launch) — fastest adopted feature in company history.

FigmaDesign SystemsUser ResearchB2B SaaS

Senior Product Designer

2021 — 2023

Stripe · San Francisco

Designed Stripe Tax UI (global launch 2022) — used by 180K+ businesses across 40 countries in year one.
Created the unified Stripe Dashboard mobile experience, reducing support tickets by 34%.
Led user research with 60+ merchants across EU and APAC to inform international product requirements.

FintechMobileInternationalisation

Product Designer

2018 — 2021

Figma · San Francisco

One of 4 designers when Figma scaled from 200K to 4M+ users. Worked on core canvas, components, and prototyping.
Designed the first version of Figma's branching and version history — still used as shipped.

SaaS ToolsComplex UIGrowth

Selected Projects

Nova Analytics — 0→1 Product Design ↗ Case study

Led full design from brief to launch. Conducted 12 customer interviews, created 3 prototype iterations, and shipped on-schedule with 4.7★ user rating at launch.

Stripe Tax — Global Dashboard ↗ Case study

Designed the compliance and reporting UI for a first-of-its-kind automated tax product. Featured in Stripe's 2022 keynote.

Core Skills

Product StrategyExpert

Figma / Design Sys.Expert

UX ResearchAdvanced

Interaction DesignExpert

Design LeadershipAdvanced

Frontend (HTML/CSS)Intermediate

Tools

Figma · FigJam

Framer · Protopie

Maze · UserTesting

Jira · Linear · Notion

Lottie · Rive

VS Code · Storybook

Education

B.Des. Communication Design

California College of the Arts

Graduated 2018 · GPA 3.9

NN/g UX Certification

Nielsen Norman Group

2020

Awards

Red Dot Design Award

UX Design · 2024

Communication Arts

Interactive Annual · 2023

Awwwards SOTD

3× 2022–2024

Languages