
Gabriela Stępień
Senior Product Designer
Salary / Daily rate
Barcelona, Spain
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
5 years of expertise in end-to-end feature leadership and AI-enhanced design backed by data. Specializes in building scalable design systems and translating user insights into measurable impact. Experienced in mentoring design teams, facilitating design sprints, and delivering accessible experiences that align user needs with business objectives.
Work experience
XO Life
Sep 2021 - Oct 2025
4 years 2 months
Barcelona, Spain
Senior Product Designer
Aug 2024 - Oct 2025
1 year 3 months
Barcelona, Spain
– Migrated a mobile-first, responsive web-app to native Android and iOS – Designed UX/UI features for the brite platform, including the user journey from discovery to daily use – Worked on improving usability and accessibility based on data – Evolved the brite design system to boost scalability, consistency, and team efficiency – Branded brite deployments for 8 pharma clients, translating brand guidelines into cohesive visual systems – Maintained a high-fidelity Figma prototype of the full user journey to support testing and stakeholder buy-in – Ran design sprints with cross-functional teams to define MVPs using design thinking and user research – Reviewed portfolios and interviewed Product Designers and UX Writers to grow a strong design team – Mentored Junior Designers to raise design quality and support team culture
Product Designer
Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
2 years
Barcelona, Spain
Junior Product Designer
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 2 months
Barcelona, Spain
Graphic Designer
Lyngual GmbH
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
8 months
Munich, Germany
– Created digital and print marketing assets to support brand and campaign needs – Applied visual storytelling techniques to strengthen brand identity – Researched design trends to guide creative direction
Product Design Intern
Grover
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
6 months
Berlin, Germany
– Assisted in creating user flows, wireframes, and mockups to support product feature development – Supported the design team with competitive analysis and UX audits to inform design decisions – Contributed to usability testing sessions by helping prepare test plans, prototypes, and note-taking – Explored edge cases and user scenarios to help improve the accessibility and inclusivity of designs – Participated in cross-functional design reviews with the larger team
Graphic Designer
Ada Health
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
4 months
Berlin Area, Germany
– Maintained and improved websites and product dashboards for better usability – Evolved and maintained brand guidelines to ensure consistency across platforms and teams – Created and organized design files, templates, typography guidelines and asset libraries
Freelance Designer
Sensi Music Systems
Oct 2016 - Dec 2019
3 years 3 months
Lisbon Area, Portugal
– Product Design – Sketching & ideation – UI/UX design – Logo design – Branding & visual identity – 3D modelling – Rapid prototyping & prototype testing
UX/UI Design Working Student
YAS.life
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
7 months
Berlin Area, Germany
- Design for YAS app and B2B white label apps - Icons design - Marketing materials design (social media assets and print: leaflets/rollups) - Illustration - Photo editing - Website elements design - B2B presentations creation
Graphic Design Intern
SARTOR SEVEN Group
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
7 months
Lisbon Area, Portugal
- Designing marketing materials for print and online - Editorial design - Creating branding, vector-based illustration and PowerPoint presentations - Research on design and digital trends - Supporting Marketing Managers and Senior Graphic Designers with ongoing projects
Entrepreneur In Residence
Mellow Inc.
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
7 months
Lisbon Area, Portugal
Mellow is a smart sous-vide machine for your home. As an Entrepreneur in Residence I got a privilege to accelerate myself alongside talented team of Mellow. I was exposed to all the aspects of building a successful hardware startup. I got insights of daily operations of the company, what helped me to understand how to take an early stage project through product development to commercial sales. - Product ideation - Opportunity recognition - Market validation - Competitive advantage and market analysis - Planning of a long term strategy - Evaluation of risks
Digital Marketing Intern
We Translate On Time
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
6 months
Lisbon Area, Portugal
- Assisting in planning and implementation of digital marketing strategies - Analysis and reporting on campaign metrics - Marketing content creation (images & text) - Managing social media - Translator and customer support - Support with various administrative tasks, data entry, creative tasks and research
Education
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Product Design
2017 - 2019
2 years 1 month
University of Wroclaw
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Linguistics
2013 - 2016
3 years 1 month
UiT- The Arctic University of Norway
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Linguistics
2015 - 2015
1 month
University of Wroclaw
Chinese Studies, Confucius Institute Wroclaw
2014 - 2015
1 year 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Course Certificate: Emotional Design — How to Make Products People Will Love
Issued: –
Course Certificate: Designing Intuitive User Interfaces
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