MAYA RODRIGUEZ
Senior Product Designer
PROFILE
Senior Product Designer with 8 years building consumer fintech and SaaS at Acme, Globex, and earlier at Stripe. I lead design systems, run user research, and ship cohesive cross-platform experiences.
EXPERIENCE
Acme Inc. — Senior Product Designer
2021 — Present
San Francisco, CA
- Led team of 8 designers across 3 product lines; reduced design-to-engineering handoff time by 35%.
- Shipped end-to-end mobile redesign that grew daily active users 40% and lifted retention 18% within two quarters.
- Established the Acme Design System (180+ components) now adopted across web, iOS, and Android by 12 product squads.
- Ran weekly research cadence with 60+ customer interviews, surfacing the insight that drove a $4.2M annual recurring revenue lift.
- Mentored 4 junior designers; 2 promoted to mid-level within 18 months.
Globex Corp — Product Designer
2018 — 2021
New York, NY
- Owned end-to-end design for the B2B fintech vertical, scaling MRR from $400K to $2.1M over three years.
- Designed and launched Globex API v2 onboarding, cutting time-to-first-call from 4 days to 22 minutes.
- Partnered with engineering and risk to redesign KYC flow; conversion improved 31% with no fraud impact.
- Built the first Globex pattern library, now the foundation of the company-wide design system.
Stripe — Product Designer
2016 — 2018
San Francisco, CA
- Designed core merchant dashboard surfaces used by 500K+ businesses across 40+ countries.
- Led the rebrand of Stripe Atlas onboarding; activation rate climbed 22% in the first quarter post-launch.
- Collaborated with brand and marketing on Sessions 2017 keynote visual narrative.
- Co-authored the internal accessibility playbook adopted by 30+ design and engineering teams.
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — BSc Computer Science
2014 — 2018
Cambridge, MA
Minor in Cognitive Science. GPA 3.91. Senior thesis on adaptive UI in low-bandwidth contexts.
Rhode Island School of Design — Continuing Studies Certificate, Interaction Design
2017 — 2017
Providence, RI
SKILLS
Product Strategy · Design Systems · User Research · Interaction Design · Prototyping · Figma · A/B Testing · Accessibility (WCAG 2.2) · Cross-functional Leadership · Workshop Facilitation · Information Architecture · Motion Design
PROJECTS
Acme Mobile Redesign
End-to-end redesign of the Acme consumer iOS and Android apps. Shipped 2023 to 4.8M users; in-app conversion lifted 27% and App Store rating moved from 3.9 to 4.6.
mayarodriguez.design/acme-mobileGlobex API v2 Launch
Lead designer on the developer-facing API v2 surface. Reduced time-to-first-API-call from 4 days to 22 minutes and was cited in TechCrunch as the cleanest fintech onboarding of 2020.
mayarodriguez.design/globex-apiLANGUAGES
English (Native) · Spanish (Professional) · French (Conversational)
AWARDS
- Fast Company Innovation by Design Award · Fast Company · 2023
- AIGA Design for Good Honor · AIGA · 2022
CERTIFICATIONS
- Certified Scrum Product Owner · Scrum Alliance · 2022
- Nielsen Norman UX Certification · NN/g · 2020
INTERESTS
Sustainable design · Mentoring · Trail running · Specialty coffee