Pedro Marques
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Pedro Marques

Designer in Amsterdam, He/Him

Open to advisory roles in B2B Fintech/SaaS

3 years ago

About

Designer with more than 15 years of experience building digital products & teams

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Amsterdam

Leads AI and Growth

2021 — 2024
Remote

Head of international commerce at Shopify leading multidisciplinary teams around internationalization, localization, taxes and more.

2021 — 2021
Global Director of Product Design at adidas
Amsterdam

My teams work on the entirety of the lower funnel from the bag, payments, delivery, returns and customer support.

2018 — 2021
Head of Product Design, In-Person Payments at Adyen
Amsterdam

Head of Product Design for our point of sale division where I lead UX design for our web and mobile applications, point of sale UI (connected devices) and Industrial Design.

2019 — 2020
Product Lead, Applied Machine Learning at Adyen
Amsterdam

Interim Head of RevenueProtect, of our risk solution (Applied machine learning) which includes: product strategy, product design and fraud operations.

2017 — 2018
Product Designer, Ranking and Recommendation at Booking.com
Amsterdam

A new team was formed with the idea to leverage on Machine Learning to improve the way we display options for our customers.

Our goal was to reduce choice overload while recommending the best option to people and ranking the subsequent hotels/rooms accordingly.

2017 — 2017
Product Designer, Consumer Psychology at Booking.com
Amsterdam

The consumer psychology team is focused on understanding and leveraging in online consumer behavior on Booking.com's website. The main focus of the team was to try and find points of high friction in the decision-making process and decrease decision overload.

2014 — 2017
UX Designer, B2B at Booking.com
Amsterdam

BookingSuite is a division within Booking.com that is home to all products that are aimed towards hotels.
At BookingSuite, our mission is simple: we want to help accommodation providers deliver amazing guest experiences.

Early in 2014 Booking.com acquired a few startups to join the division, my job was to build tools to bridge the companies together and help these startups develop their products forward.

2014 — 2014
Principal Designer at Enjooy
Belo Horizonte

I was part of the main overhaul of the startup, defining vision and strategy for the product as a whole, working directly with the CPO and CTO on the product launch and iterations.
Worked on the conception and management of the website and mobile apps.

2013 — 2014
Designer at Plan B
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Online Advertising
Mobile Applications
UI and UX for web apps.

2014 — 2014
UX Designer at CI&T
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008 — 2013
Designer at SejaOnline
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

One of the first employees at the company where I helped design our entire system (similar to Shopify) from 0 clients to 5k in 4 years.

Speaking

2019
Machine Learning is a UX Problem at AWWWARDS
Amsterdam
2019
Machine Learning is a UX Problem at AWWWARDS
San Francisco
2018
Predictive Design at UXDX Amsterdam
Amsterdam
2018
ML and UX at UXDEV Florida
Florida
2017
How to be one step ahead of your customers at UX Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey
2016
A/B Testing, in data we trust at CI&T Digital Day
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2014
UX for Developers at DevDay
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Projects

2020

Led Product and Product Design on a A/B testing platform for risk, serving as our first step into machine learning at Adyen

2020

A GPT-2 bot trained on hundreds of design books that spits out knowledge about design

2014

Senna.js is a blazing-fast single page application engine that provides several low-level APIs that allows you to build modern web-based applications with only ~8KB of JavaScript without any dependency.

2012

In order to improve my CSS skills a build my own framework to help me out when starting new projects

Side Projects

2020
Meo (Under development)

Private social network where you only see what you post, a offline note taking private feed-like experience to your thoughts and private notes.

2016

YouTube channel to help Brazilians understand and apply to jobs overseas, focused on helping with interviewing, design assesments and immigration.

Features

2020

Sit back as Pedro explains his crush on Microsoft, why he prefers Android over iOS, and what drives him to become a role model for other designers like him.

2018

I was interviewed but the thundernerds team about designing machine learning systems and my journey so far