
Jimena Castro
Senior Product Designer | UX & Product Strategy
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Santiago del Monte, 33459 Castrillón, Asturias, Espagne
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Introduction
Product strategist with 10+ years driving digital transformation at Google, S&P Global, and GlobalLogic. Expert in leading cross-functional teams across fintech, e-learning, and enterprise platforms—from discovery to scalable design systems. Specialized in UX research, service design, and AI-powered product strategy to deliver measurable business impact for startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Expérience de travail
Experience Manager
Kansha Content Lab
nov. 2024 - Présent
2 ans
Barcelone, Espagne
• Helping startups and big companies to build brand, product strategy, and systems that scale.
Sr Product Designer -— Barcelona
Benevity
févr. 2023 - déc. 2024
1 an 11 mois
Barcelone, Espagne
Impact: • Define Content Design x Product Experience blueprint for collaboration. • Improved clarity and usability across key administrative workflows. • Strengthened alignment between design, product strategy, and engineering delivery. • Implement new design system for Admin and Employee experience.
Professor and Speaker
Coderhouse
avr. 2021 - mai 2023
2 ans 2 mois
76249 Parque Industrial Global Park Querétaro, Qro., Mexique
Advanced UX UI . Delivered lectures that encouraged critical thinking and practical application of UX principles. . Mentore students
Lead Product Designer — Remote (San Francisco)
Newfront
sept. 2021 - déc. 2022
1 an 4 mois
San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis
Drove the redesign of the BOR process, simplifying complex enterprise workflows and improving clarity and efficiency for administrators managing high-volume operations. Established a structured research framework to inform product strategy and reduce uncertainty in decision-making. Defined and scaled a design system that improved cross-product consistency and accelerated delivery across teams. Developed the core information architecture for the Admin Dashboard, creating a scalable structure later implemented across additional product modules.
Lead UX Architect Employee Experience - New york
S&P Global
mai 2021 - oct. 2021
6 mois
Nueva York - remote
- Defining a unified employee experience for a business merger between S&P Global and an European company (US - Europe) - Giving support to the corporate team through a Service Design process and defining the artifacts need it for a good employee experience.
Product Designer @ Google (TVC) --- Remote (Los Angeles)
déc. 2020 - mai 2021
6 mois
Los Ángeles - remote
Collaborated with a team of Product Designers and UX Researchers in the exploration of the next evolution of creator tools and social content. - Planning and developing an Ideation process for scorecards about NBA - Developing Test Reports to guide Content Team to evolve the art direction defined - Identify key value proposition to define the product
GlobalLogic
oct. 2017 - janv. 2021
3 ans 4 mois
Ozark, Missouri - remote
Lead Product Designer
nov. 2020 - janv. 2021
3 mois
Ozark, Missouri - remote
Business Project: 🏦 Mortgage Investor Servicing. Per the last crisis in EEUU companies such as Jack Henry needs to update and bring innovation to all the Credit Unions and Banks that want to give a better experience in mortgage services. The goal for the team was to lead a discovery to delivery a first estimation for the MVP.
Lead Product Designer
mai 2020 - oct. 2020
6 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
Business project: 🏦 Banking - digital transformation Leading a UX discovery for digital transformation. The goal was to help one Supervielle Bank to make a friendly onboarding for PyMEs.
Lead Product Designer
févr. 2020 - juil. 2020
6 mois
Londres - remote
Business project: 🐕 Petcare platform (EEUU - Spain) Lead the research strategy for testing purposes and define an iterative process. Working with London, NewYork, and India team for developing the best experience.
Lead Product Designer
août 2018 - mars 2020
1 an 8 mois
Washington DC- remote
Business project: 📚e-learning platform for financial & healthcare education. Leading 5 designers in order to help our client to insert the international product that they are still developing. The main goal was to redefine illustrations, refine design-developer process, deliver ux improvements and work with the Product Team based in Washington. I also worked with content and learning experience team to build a better strategy for an international product.
Senior User Experience
oct. 2017 - août 2018
11 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
Business project: 💸payment processing and solutions. Lead the Discovery Phase through workshops, research techniques and marketing sessions in order to develop an API Program for developers. Define and build the spirit of the website with design and engineer team in 6 months during Design Phase. Maintenance and managing the daily tasks during the developing process 5 months.
Senior UX Designer
Garbarino S.A.
mai 2017 - oct. 2017
6 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
In this short period I was able to work with Dev team side by side in order to launch the PWA. My main goal was to work in usability and also analysis the website with several tools such as OptimalWorkshop, Hotjar, VWO & Google Analytics. I worked with the team to create the Checkout process and refine it with a FastCheckout design.
Ssr Analyst UX
Cablevisión Fibertel
mai 2016 - janv. 2017
9 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
- Coordinate and implement the designs delivered by the agencies. - Monitoring of digital projects (Web, moble & app) through the use of agile methodologies - Definition of the functional scope of the projects - MVP (task estimation workshops) - Design and definition of projects. - Flow launch: wireframes, user testing and QA of web, TV, tablet & mobile platforms (omnichannel experience)
Digital Designer
Wunderman
août 2014 - juil. 2015
1 an
Congreso y Arribeños
Graphic & Web Designer. Account: United Airlines (EEUU) - Design of icons, presentations and newsletter for internal company communications. - Animations in After Effects for OOH banners - Flash Banners for RichMedia - Graphics for the different airports of the company - Design of screens for the interior of airplanes. - Cinemagraphs - Assembly of originals for the marketing team Digital Designer - POOL - Design proposals for the CocaCola-Light microsite - Visual aesthetics for Nokia and Calsa newsletters - Images for Nokia and Microsoft social networks - Animated Flash Banners
Web Designer
RAPP
janv. 2014 - août 2014
8 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
- Design of landings and complete websites for Unilever and ALBA programs. - Dupla with different editors for the monthly design of the Facebook platforms and look & feel of the rest of the social networks. - Corporate animations and shorts for contests. - Offline team support: assembly of Posters and POP material for clients like Remington.
Dafiti
déc. 2011 - déc. 2013
2 ans 1 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
Brand Designer
déc. 2011 - déc. 2013
2 ans 1 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
- Magazine graphic - Brochures - GiftCards - Labels - RRSS - Photo retouching - Flash animations - Decks - Assembled mock-ups - Landings for advertising campaigns: Cyber Monday and Black Friday - Layout and design of newsletters - Photo retouching - Production of campaigns for E-mail marketing
Team Leader - Atención al cliente / Reclamos
janv. 2012 - juil. 2012
7 mois
- Monitoring, increasing, and control of service attention ratios. - Monitoring, optimization, and motivation of telephone management - Reports
QA - Quality Assurance Auditor
Qualytel
janv. 2006 - oct. 2011
5 ans 10 mois
Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentine
Department: Claims • Preparation of action plans and annual planning of the service. • Preparation of monthly management reports. • Handling of confidential information. • Control and optimization of productivity, presenteeism and quality metrics. • Monitoring and returns to the area coordinators. • Training aimed at improving the quality of service. • Design and creation of tools for management reports. • Design of continuous improvement processes; reaching and exceeding set objectives. • Control of improvement policies and achievement of set objectives. Department: Retentions-Vodafone - Initial Formations - Training in production to update procedures for the work team. - Conducting audits and listening to agents, constant feedback and preparation of improvement plans for the individual development of the operator. - Preparation of reports to be sent to the client with statistics and percentages on the audited points for information regarding the evolution / involution of the platform.
Formation
AAP - Asociación Argentina de Publicidad
Directora de Arte, Publicidad
2012 - Présent
14 ans 10 mois
Future London Academy
Master's degree
2025 - 2026
1 an 6 mois
University of Buenos Aires
Graphic Designer, Comunicación
2006 - 2016
10 ans 1 mois
EducacionIT
Web Designer, HTML and digital marketing
2007 - 2010
3 ans 1 mois
Licences et certifications
First Certificate Examination
Délivré le : juin 2026