Oly — Renan Martins
Product Designer · Lead & Specialist
🇧🇷 Brazilian · São Paulo, Brazil
Work Experience
Principal Product Designer
Apr 2025 – PresentLead end-to-end design for the Advisors Match platform as the sole designer in the business unit. Partner with product, engineering, marketing, and compliance teams to evolve the match experience — balancing user trust with business performance.
Work spans deep discovery and research, UX/UI design, experimentation, and delivery, turning complex financial decisions into simple, high-converting experiences. Contribute to product vision, roadmap planning, and KPI definition.
Design Lead
Oct 2024 – Apr 2025Led strategic design initiatives for key clients at a digital product consultancy. Managed client relationships, guided product strategy, and oversaw end-to-end design processes. Mentored and developed designers, fostering growth and excellence within the team.
Navigated complex challenges by aligning business goals with user needs — from discovery to delivery — generating measurable value for clients.
Head of Design
Nov 2023 – Nov 2024Led Design & Research at a health-tech company operating across five countries. Managed the entire Design & Research team, mentored designers, and shaped the global product design strategy.
Oversaw the full product lifecycle from discovery to delivery, with a strong focus on user needs and key business metrics. Led a fully remote, cross-functional team across diverse cultural contexts.
Product Designer Specialist
May 2023 – Oct 2023Led initiatives at a fast-growing ESG startup that extended beyond traditional design: defined pricing strategies, refined the visual identity, and identified growth opportunities by connecting product improvements to key metrics.
Mapped the entire user journey, created new flows, redesigned the UI, improved navigation, restructured information architecture, and built a scalable new design system.
Product Design Manager
Jul 2021 – Nov 2022Led a team of 18 designers at the largest bank in Latin America, driving design and delivery of strategic digital products across multiple squads. Combined UX strategy, design thinking, and research to guide the full process from discovery to execution.
Played a key role in stakeholder alignment, roadmap discussions, and balancing timelines, scope, and budget. Supported the professional growth of designers and helped mature the design culture.
Lead Product Designer
Jul 2020 – Jul 2021Designed and launched HR solutions — including onboarding experiences and performance management tools — at Brazil's leading HR Tech company. Collaborated cross-functionally to identify opportunities, run user research, and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Mentored junior designers and contributed to building a strong, scalable design culture within the organization.
Senior Product Designer
Aug 2019 – Apr 2020Worked on core customer-facing experiences at one of Brazil's leading service marketplaces. Improved conversion rates through data-informed design, leveraging A/B testing and behavioral analytics to iterate on flows and UI, enhancing usability and engagement across the platform.