Mara Ellis

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Mara Ellis

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Mara Ellis

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(Resume) Senior product designer

Mara Ellis

Senior product designer with nine years in SaaS, fintech and health. I turn messy operations into calm tools, work closely with engineering, and measure every project by what changes after launch.

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Based in

Lisbon, Portugal · CET

Open to

Senior and lead roles · hybrid or remote

Updated

October 2026

Field teams

4,000

scheduling jobs on the dispatch board I led

Customers

paying bills through the two-step flow

Clinics

120

booking patients through one shared flow

How I work

Every project measured after launch

Results checked three to six months later

(01) Nine years, four teams

Experience

Lead Product Designer

Crewdock · Rebuilt dispatch for 4,000 field teams. Scheduling a job went from 6 minutes to 90 seconds.

SaaS

2023 – Now

Lead Product Designer

Crewdock · Rebuilt dispatch for 4,000 field teams. Scheduling a job went from 6 minutes to 90 seconds.

SaaS

2023 – Now

Senior Product Designer

Ledgerline · Cut bill payments from seven steps to two for 2M customers. Repeat payments up 31%.

Fintech

2020 – 2023

Senior Product Designer

Ledgerline · Cut bill payments from seven steps to two for 2M customers. Repeat payments up 31%.

Fintech

2020 – 2023

Product Designer

Tendwell · Designed one booking flow for 120 clinics. Patients book a visit in under a minute.

Health

2017 – 2020

Product Designer

Tendwell · Designed one booking flow for 120 clinics. Patients book a visit in under a minute.

Health

2017 – 2020

UI Designer

Parcelry · Designed the courier app and live tracking pages for a regional delivery network.

Logistics

2015 – 2017

UI Designer

Parcelry · Designed the courier app and live tracking pages for a regional delivery network.

Logistics

2015 – 2017

(02) Degree and teaching

Education

MA, Interaction Design

Design school, Lisbon

Degree

2015

MA, Interaction Design

Design school, Lisbon

Degree

2015

Design systems for junior designers

Evening course, twice a year

Teaching

2021 – Now

Design systems for junior designers

Evening course, twice a year

Teaching

2021 – Now

Designing for dispatchers

Talk at a Lisbon product meetup

Talk

2024

Designing for dispatchers

Talk at a Lisbon product meetup

Talk

2024

(03) Craft and tools

Skills

Product design

Discovery, user flows, prototyping and usability testing for B2B and consumer products

Core

9 years

Product design

Discovery, user flows, prototyping and usability testing for B2B and consumer products

Core

9 years

Design systems

Tokens, component libraries and documentation that engineers actually use

Core

6 years

Design systems

Tokens, component libraries and documentation that engineers actually use

Core

6 years

Tools

Figma, FigJam, Framer, Maze, Notion and Jira

Daily

Hands-on

Tools

Figma, FigJam, Framer, Maze, Notion and Jira

Daily

Hands-on

Languages

English, Portuguese and Spanish

Spoken

Fluent

Languages

English, Portuguese and Spanish

Spoken

Fluent