Laura Escobar

Laura Escobar

About

I'm a passionate Product Designer with 12+ years of experience. I leverage strategic creativity, business thinking, and leadership to enhance products, teams, and businesses. Currently, I am working at the intersection of design tooling and AI at DesignPro.

Projects

Ongoing

This is a publication for those that see opportunities in problems, because it really depends on how you approach complex challenges to grow and improve your career.

Work Experience

2024 — Now

Empowering early stage designers to accelerate and optimize their product design with the help of AI-powered tools.

2021 — Now
El Salvador

Leading design strategy to democratize the digital financial solutions for people and businesses in Central America.

2023 — 2024
United States - Remote

Innovating and enriching the entertainment journey for the streaming age. Responsible for:

• Leading growth design of the onboarding and NUX (New User Experience) of the B2C product

• Directing the end-to-end UX Research process of critical projects to drive innovation of the top-of-funnel growth

• Strategy, planning, and execution of the Design System, socializing its impact and facilitating the learning process for designers, developers, and stakeholders

• Driving a more systematic and lean UXR practice to increase user empathy

• Spearheading the transformation of the Visual Language across mobile and web for B2C and B2B touch points of the brand

• Developing fundamental DesignOps practices to optimize the design process

2020 — 2023
United States - Remote

• Established a distributed Product Design team from the ground up to work with US clients on web and mobile products in less than a year

• Led, coached, and developed 14 Junior to Senior Designers to build critical thinking, efficiency, and high-quality craftmanship

• Recruited, interviewed, and evaluated Junior to Senior Designers with a custom-made hiring framework designed for efficiency and transparency

• Built and directed a Product Design trainee program for entry-level candidates, graduating a total of 10 Junior Product Designers

• Increased design maturity at the company by mentoring designers on problem-solving skills, Product Thinking, and end-to-end iterative design process

• Directed strategy, execution, and design for 15 projects from end to end acting as the DRI

• Established the Design System practice as a core service to build Design Systems from scratch

2019 — 2020
Lead Product Designer at Miami Heat
United States - Remote

Led end-to-end Product Design challenges for 5 different products that drive core operations in marketing and basketball operations for the Miami HEAT basketball team of the NBA.

2017 — 2018
UX/UI Designer at Ideaworks International
El Salvador
2012 — 2017
UX/UI Designer at Disimplify
Sweden - Remote

Education

2024 — 2024

Sell your ideas, manage up, gain buy-in, and increase your impact. Sharpen your skills via hands-on exercises, deep dives, scripts, and more.

2024 — 2024

The d.MBA is a 6-week online business course made specifically for designers. It covers all the relevant business topics while honoring the human-centeredness that made us designers in the first place.

2021 — 2021

Eight-week remote program for ambitious designers who want to hone their skills, increase their impact and grow as leaders.

2013 — 2016
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design at Universidad Don Bosco
El Salvador

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