Karla

Karla

Lead Product Designer

would love to connect and create stellar projects with you!

A year ago

About

A multi-disciplinary Product Designer with over 15+ years of experience within high-growth startups. Loves solving challenges, spotting patterns, and creating systems. Here are some selected projects:

Projects

2021
Brand Identity, Packaging, UX, UI at Alternutive
2020
Brand Identity, UX, UI at PHT
2019
Brand Identity, UX, UI at Node

Work Experience

2006 — Now
Freelance Product Designer at Various Startups
Remote
2020 — 2022
Lead Product Designer at PHT
Remote | New York, US

✨ Directed a cross-functional team and championed UX system design for a wide range of products, enhancing customer interactions and reducing agent effort by 50%; accomplished a 70% surge in close rates. Consequently, a significant growth in conversion funnel rates was observed (from 2% to 40%).

2016 — 2018
Lead Product Designer at LiveGlam
Remote | California, US

✨ Built a team and headed the efforts to refresh the brand which increased the brand's trust rating and exponentially increased user sign ups by 600%

2014 — 2016
Lead Product Designer at ezhome
Remote | California, US

✨ First Design hire and established brand's core—Launched MVP, iterate product-market fit, help scale company to 150+ employees, grow to 10M annual rate revenue.

2013 — 2015
Co-Founder and Chief of Product at TrueProperty
Makati, PH | Sydney, AU

✨ Selected from thousands as the incubator program's pilot team. Ran a lean startup, raised funds, scaled team, answered the country's real estate challenges, and grew thousands of loyal users.

2012 — 2013
Lead UI and UX Designer at Appster
Remote | Melbourne, AU

✨ Lead the company's design processes and systems, which was scaled and applied by hundreds of offshore designers. Designed 100+ mobile apps and crafted patterns for the team to use.

2011 — 2013
Lead R&D Designer at Odesk (now Upwork)
Remote | California, US

✨ Lead the company's Research and Development team, explored applications and tested within the core group of designers. Eventually, successful apps were distributed company-wide to thousands of employees.

2008 — 2011
Lead Designer at WorldPartner
Quezon City, PH | Copenhagen, DK

✨ Built and Lead a group of designers and developers to design software experiences, web interfaces, and offline assets.

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Education

2001 — 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art History at University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City