I’m looking for a senior/staff product designer or design engineer role, working on complex technical products, 100% remote from Portugal, as an employee or contractor.
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Pedro Fernandes
@pmcfernandes
Product designer who codes the UI. Design systems, UX design and research for complex technical software: observability, databases, dev tools.
PortugalWhat I'm looking for
I design interfaces for complex technical software, the kind used by DBAs, SREs and developers who know more about their systems than most designers ever will. Learning their world, terminology, and workflows is my strongest experience.
At Percona I was the senior product designer on PMM, an open-source database monitoring and observability platform. I designed its native UI and navigation, and Peak UI, Percona’s public design system. I build mockups in code and contribute directly to production. I’m strong in vanilla HTML, CSS and accessibility, and I work in React/TypeScript codebases with AI tools. Before that I designed at FARFETCH and TUI, where I helped start the Lisbon e-commerce hub as its first designer.
I also do UX research and turn UX reviews into actionable tickets that engineers can resolve on their own for faster development times while avoiding UX holes in first product iterations.
Looking for a senior/staff product designer or design engineer role, 100% remote from Portugal, as an employee or contractor.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Percona builds open-source database software and services, including PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management), a monitoring and observability platform for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and more.
- Designed and coded a native UI for PMM, decoupling the interface from heavy third-party dependencies to reduce technical debt and unblock the development of custom features.
- Built and managed Peak
FARFETCH is a global marketplace for luxury fashion. I worked on catalog and product discovery, including conscious, or eco-friendly, shopping.
- Uncovered catalog discovery barriers through user research, using the insights to shape the conscious shopping roadmap.
- Created a taxonomy framework for sustainable items, resolving catalog inconsistencies, making complex product attributes clearer, a
TUI Group is one of the world’s largest leisure travel companies. From the Lisbon hub, I worked on its e-commerce experience across multiple markets.
- Designed a modular page-building system that generated 100K+ destination pages, driving 4x organic traffic growth and simplifying multi-market deployment.
- Created the Tagus design system across 5 global markets, standardizing e-commerce flows fr
User Experience Designer
SMARTIDIOM
May 2016 - Mar 2019 (2 years 10 months)
SMARTIDIOM is a translation services company. I led the design and front-end of its move from a traditional service business to a digital platform.
- Designed and coded 4 interconnected web applications, turning a traditional service business into a digital platform that connects clients with certified professionals.
- Built Slayout, a UI component system created from scratch to standardize inter
NG
Founder & Designer
Noise Goods
Jun 2013 - Mar 2019 (5 years 9 months)
Noise Goods is a bag and accessories brand I founded and ran alongside my other design roles.
- Designed and coded a custom e-commerce platform, optimizing conversion pathways and SEO for global sales across 50+ countries.
- Managed products end-to-end, from brand and product design to manufacturing and the online store, and established a presence at tradeshows.
- Iterated on the storefront UI us
Product Designer
Stricker
Jun 2010 - Oct 2013 (3 years 4 months)
Stricker is a European supplier of promotional products for businesses. I designed physical products for its B2B catalogue and structured how they were organized and customized.
- Established the information architecture for digital catalogues, structuring complex B2B product taxonomies and customization rules.
- Designed modular systems for 50+ B2B products, enabling scalable customization withi
FR
Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Freelance
Sep 2009 - Jun 2011 (1 year 9 months)
Freelance illustration, branding, and web work, alongside my early design roles.
- Produced editorial illustrations published in major national media outlets Visão, DIFF mag, and Lux Woman.
- Designed brand identities and visual guidelines for diverse clients, using a systematic approach to keep visuals consistent.
- Built web layouts in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, my first step into turning visua
Industrial Designer
COMOPI Kitchen Design
Sep 2007 - Sep 2009 (2 years)
COMOPI designs and manufactures kitchen furniture. I designed modular furniture systems, from concept to production.
- Designed modular furniture systems that translated user requirements directly into manufacturing parameters.
- Customized CAD software workflows with scripts to automate and streamline design-to-production handoffs.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
IU
IDEO U
AI x Design Thinking
Mar 2025
IU
IDEO U
Cultivating Creative Collaboration
Feb 2025
UD
Udemy
Object-Oriented UX Fundamentals
Oct 2023
EC
Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra
Master’s Degree, Industrial and Product Design
2002 - 2007
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra - Escola Superior de Educação
Multimedia Design
2001 - 2002
EF
Escola Secundária José Falcão
High School, Tridimensional Design
1998 - 2001
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Looking for a job
Location
PortugalAuthorized to work in
Website
pmcf.xyzPortfolio
pmcf.xyzSalary expectations
75k-95k EUR
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