Giovanna Alonso
Giovanna Alonso

Senior Product Designer

Actively looking · Member since 8 Nov 2026
Location
Spain
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior Product Designer with more than 10 years of experience creating fintech, banking, financial-services, and SaaS products. I take products from early strategy and discovery through polished, production-ready user interfaces.

I lead 0-to-1 product development end to end, combining product strategy, service design, user research, and visual design. My work includes financial dashboards, financing services, payment experiences, e-wallets, reconciliation tools, and customer-facing financial products.

I run an AI-native design practice and prototype directly in code using tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Lovable. This approach helps me reduce the distance between an initial idea and a shippable product while creating reusable, code-aware design patterns.

I have extensive experience building and extending design systems, improving UX maturity, and establishing design standards across organizations. I also mentor designers and help teams improve their craft, strategic thinking, and delivery practices.

My work has delivered measurable business outcomes, including a flexible financing service generating approximately €2M in ARR within six months and a compound interest simulator that reached 6.5 million users. I am experienced in leading multidisciplinary and international teams across strategy, research, design, and execution.

Skills

31 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Design

Experience

Career history

Lead Product Designer Mews

I launched Flexible Financing as a key contributor, designing and testing the end-to-end service experience. The product generated approximately €2M in ARR, achieved a 72% approval rate, and reached a 42% renewal rate within six months.

I designed the financial dashboard through three major iterations, improving information hierarchy, typography, and data-dense layouts. I also introduced AI-powered smart tips, extended the design system with fintech-specific code-aware components, and supported launches across Accounts, Capital, and Payments.

I conducted qualitative research and strategic roadmapping that unlocked five new business lines and accelerated the Financial Services roadmap by four months. As interim PM for Mews Accounts, I drove discovery, strategy, execution, and delivery for the launch over eight months.

Lead Product Designer Indra

I built the Experience Design team from scratch by defining hiring criteria, design standards, and team culture. I recruited and mentored junior designers in product design practices and strategic thinking.

For Santander, I designed a CX measurement framework and analytics dashboard that incorporated call-center insights. This work contributed to an 11% improvement in client retention.

Senior Product Designer BBVA

I founded Uxability, an in-house usability agency, to elevate design quality across business units. I developed a UX maturity model and a Design at Scale service that increased team efficiency by 14%.

I led the product strategy and end-to-end experience for a compound interest simulator. The product reached 6.5 million users and achieved 37% feature adoption while I led a 12-person team across Spain, Turkey, Mexico, and Peru.

Education

Learning history

La Salle

MSc, Digital Art & Creative Technologies

Harbour.Space

MBA, Entrepreneurship (Fintech minor)

University of the Arts London

Certificate, Service Design

La Salle

BA, Graphic Design & Interaction Design

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