# Marcos Moitas

Marcos Moitas is a remote worker on Himalayas, Director of Product Design at Wave Financial, based in Canada.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@marcosmoitas

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Director of Product Design at Wave Financial, shaping product design and design systems across a small-business fintech platform.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Canada |
| Authorized to work in | Canada |
| Salary expectations | 195k+ CAD |
| Job categories | Product Designer |
| Skills | Product Design, Design Systems, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, UX Design, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Service Design, Design Operations, Design Tokens, Design System Governance, Illustration, Graphic Design, Advertising, Branding |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/moitas |

## About

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At Wave Financial, I lead a 12-person multidisciplinary design organization supporting the product pillars and partners across Product, Engineering, Customer Support, and Marketing. I set design vision and strategy while staying hands-on with design systems and craft.

I prioritized design vision projects that set a north star for Wave’s user experience, shaped product roadmaps, and provided direction for priorities such as in-app AI features. I also lead the design systems practice, designing token architecture and component patterns with engineering.

Earlier at Wave, I led the design systems team through a brand refresh and design tokens initiative, and created the company’s illustration visual style. I also supported redesigning key user flows for the Wave Money mobile app.
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## Experience

### Director of Product Design (current)

Wave Financial. Dec 2024 - Present

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Leads a 12-person design organization, setting design vision and strategy while staying hands-on in design systems and craft. Prioritizes design vision projects and stabilizes the design org through structural transitions.
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Skills: Design-Thinking, Design-Systems, Design-Strategy, Team-Leadership, Design-mentoring, User-Interface-Design, Interaction-Design, User-Experience, Service-Design, Figma

### Lead, Product Design

Wave Financial. Aug 2024 - Dec 2024

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Promoted to lead the Product Design team during organizational change, setting design direction across multiple product surfaces. Established operational backbone including design ops, hiring, and cross-functional design process.
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Skills: Design-Leadership, Design-Operations, Hiring, Cross-Functional-Collaboration

### Staff Product Designer

Wave Financial. Jul 2022 - Aug 2024

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Shaped end-to-end experiences across web and mobile, serving as senior design voice in product planning. Led design systems team through brand refresh and design tokens initiative, mentoring designers to improve craft.
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Skills: Product-Design, Design-Systems, Design-Tokens, Mentorship, Web-Design, Mobile-Design

### Product Creative Lead

Wave Financial. Jun 2021 - Jul 2022

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Bridged product design and brand, leading creation of shared visual assets with marketing experiences. Created illustration visual style and led implementation on technical side of design systems, supporting redesign of key user flows.
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Skills: Branding, Illustration, Design-Systems, Visual-Design, Mobile-App-Design

### Senior Product Designer

Wave Financial. Mar 2019 - Jun 2021

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Owned and improved design libraries, contributing to a more cohesive experience built consistently. Implemented design systems governance flows to lay foundation for growth and improve flexibility.
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Skills: Design-Systems, Design-Libraries, Governance, Consistency

### Product Designer

Wave Financial. Jan 2017 - Mar 2019

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Designed flows and interfaces across Wave, including integrations, bank connections, accounting, and payroll experiences.
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Skills: Product-Design, User-Interface-Design, User-Experience, Integration, Accounting, Payroll

### Visual Designer

[Rogers Communications](https://himalayas.app/companies/rogers-communications). Aug 2015 - Dec 2016

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Worked as a visual designer at Rogers Communications.
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Skills: Visual-Design

### Freelance Designer

Freelance. Dec 2014 - Jul 2015

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Worked as a freelance designer.
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### Senior Interaction Designer

DesignIt. Sep 2013 - Dec 2014

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Worked as a senior interaction designer at DesignIt.
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Skills: Interaction-Design

### Senior Art Director

Vale Presente S.A.. May 2012 - Sep 2013

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Worked as a senior art director at Vale Presente S.A., a gift cards startup.
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Skills: Art-Direction

### Art Editor

Editora Abril. Oct 2002 - Jun 2011

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Worked as an art editor at Editora Abril, a publishing company.
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Skills: Art-Direction, Publishing

## Education

### Ideo U

Leading for Creativity, Creativity

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Completed the Leading for Creativity program at Ideo U.
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### Design Thinking School

Business Design, Business Design

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Completed the Business Design program at Design Thinking School.
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### São Judas Tadeu University

Bachelor's Degree, Social Communication

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Earned a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication with a focus on Advertising.
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## Tech stack

- Figma
- JavaScript
- Gemini

To contact Marcos, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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