Pedro Morais Email & Phone Number

State Of Paraná, Brazil

Mill Valley, California, United States

This role receives special attention as I am currently a Mid-level Product Designer. This combination has been powerful in integrating spearhead insights, team capabilities, and client expectations. I first experienced this role during a quick six-week project, and after receiving positive feedback and an incoming renewal offer, I accepted this position for longer and more complex projects and teams.I currently lead a four-person product team and an six-person technical team, providing deliverable support and planning.Key Responsibilities:- Product and Roadmap Planning: Based on discoveries made during project pre-briefings and the Design Thinking process, I continuously provide updated priority roadmaps, evaluating trade-offs.- Leading Sprint Ceremonies: I lead client sessions for questions and updates on the current sprint progress, including a weekly Sprint Checkpoint and bi-weekly Sprint Showback and Kickoff.- Team Training and Assessment: Despite the fast-paced agency environment, I prioritize team growth by conducting 1:1 sessions for personalized insights and feedback.- Product Team Sprint Planning and Tech Team Support: I plan deliverables for each sprint of the product team project and provide the best support possible for the tech team's project deliverables.- Constant Client Communication: I quickly address any project questions, concerns, or business opportunities, ensuring clients understand the project and are satisfied with its progress.

Mill Valley, California, United States

Continuing as a solo designer, I advanced in the ideation and implementation of US-based projects with leading Fortune 500 companies like Entergy and numerous niche startups.As a Mid-Level Product Designer, I achieved SUS scores ranging from 88.9 to 92.1 in a User-Centered Design approach. This involved continuously evaluating trade-offs with developers and stakeholders to ensure balanced project outcomes. My role extended beyond design to coding Node.js back-end logic, automating processes, and providing front-end guidelines for developers.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:- Product Discovery & Project Rebriefing: Led initial product discovery phases, ensuring clear project briefs for highly specialized industries.- UX/UI Design: Developed wireframes and full UI designs, incorporating continuous feedback to align with stakeholder expectations. Created comprehensive design systems with complex variants aligned with Angular and React Material UI.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitated developer handoffs and maintained open communication channels with the technical team, negotiating trade-offs, and participating in daily stand-ups and workshops.- Usability Testing & Analysis: Developed scripts, conducted usability tests, and analyzed reports to guide design improvements, managing complex, calculation-driven prototypes in code or Figma.= Process Revamp & Training: Created a common project roadmap from product discovery to handoff, with multiple customized templates for the team to thrive in a fast-paced environment.- Prototypes & Code Integration: Led 1:1 developer workshops to integrate live design and development of complex calculations and features with constant iteration.In this role, I launched over three projects/releases across various industries, leading to multiple contract renewals. Additionally, I empowered the team by conducting more than 10 workshops, and sharing my diverse experiences.

Mill Valley, California, United States

As a designer team of one, I managed diverse product development tasks, encompassing project management and stakeholder negotiations in US-based projects.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:- Product Discovery & Project Rebriefing: Led the initial product discovery phases, ensuring clear project briefs for highly specialized industries.- UX/UI Design: Developed wireframes and full UI designs, incorporating continuous feedback to align with stakeholder expectations.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitated developer handoffs and maintained open communication channels with the technical team, negotiating tradeoffs.- Usability Testing & Analysis: Conducted comprehensive usability tests and analyzed reports to guide design improvements.- Process Redesign: Overhauled the design process in a fast-paced environment, improving structure and management of Jira cards to align with client and team needs.- Prototypes & AI Integration: Created proofs of concept and low-fidelity prototypes using AI and front-end skills, extending beyond basic Figma prototypes.My and the team's approach has driven project success and innovation, with over six projects launched during this period. These efforts have resulted in award-winning outcomes, such as the Start-Up Star Award from UNPA, and have led to successful contract renewals with the team.

Mill Valley, California, United States

As a Product Owner in an international project for Agoro Carbon Alliance / Yara currently in transition to another team, I mapped and understood how the system in transition functioned, defining stories, and prioritizing the team backlog. Resulting in compiled business requirements for the development team and a complete guide of some of the system capabilities gathered from extensive knowledge transfer from teams around the world from India to Germany.I also guided in the developing of some pages, doing QAs reviews with the specialists, and I facilited data scientists onboarding and understanding of the object concerned.

Mill Valley, California, United States

As a design intern, my main job focused on User Experience and User Interface Design followed by a project plan and lead aspect - Mapping flows, designing interfaces, scaling design systems, branding , and helping developers around the front-end implementation and QA.I also acted as part of the product team doing research, mapping the business analysis, and promoting the product. Having the opportunity to lead Design Thinking and Product Design workshops with interdisciplinary teams.Without much guidance, we launched a functioning project in last than 6 months, from product discovery to developing - reaching a mark that still no other internship team had achieved. Access at https://invoctopus.com/

Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

During my exchange, I received an incredible invitation to be an individual contributor as part of the Image and Communication Team for the second-largest and most traditional festival in Coimbra.The team consisted of three coordinators and three individual contributors, and my key responsibilities included:- Visual Identity Development: Through networking connections familiar with my portfolio, I was invited to shape the festival’s visual identity, leveraging my unique style. I led training sessions and workshops to ensure the team maintained consistency across over 200 social media posts and 1,000 printed assets.- Social Media Content Creation: I was responsible for the ideation and execution of a wide range of social media content, including stories, posts, and reels. Over four months, our content reached more than 488,800 accounts, accumulated 10 million views, and contributed to a 35% growth in followers (adding 9,000 new followers).- Lead Design and Production of Key Deliverables: I created the festival’s logo and main assets, including the lineup poster, staff and merchandise sweatshirts, wristbands, and a billboard measuring up to 28 meters. These deliverables contributed to a cohesive festival experience that attracted an average of 15,000 attendees per night from October 2nd to 6th, 2024.Go to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/festadaslatas/See press coverage: https://www.diariocoimbra.pt/tags/festa-das-latas-2024/

Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

As an SEO intern, I actively engaged in various aspects related to the field. This included conducting studies using tools such as SEM Rush, Answer the Public, and Google Analytics to analyze reports. Additionally, I developed and optimized landing pages using WordPress.Furthermore, I generated reports by integrating JavaScript, Google Sheets, and Google Analytics to evaluate SKUs and products for the e-commerce platform.

Curitiba E Região, Brasil

Mandatory internship to conclude the Technical course in electronics integrated to high school in UTFPR. Exercising the function of:- Project management solutions, control and telemetry for segments like eletric energy and gas, sanitation and traffic.Rated at maximum grade by the Advisor, Professor Valfredo Pilla Jr.

Bacharelor, Product Design, 0.8998 / 1.0000

Bacharelado / Mestrado, Design And Multimedia, 16.75/20

Selected 1st place in my sector for student exchange to study master and bachelor lectures in Design and Multimedia for two semesters.

Technical High School, Technical Course In Electronics Integrated To High School