Turning emerging opportunities into
products, services, and operating models.

Yola, I am Alexandre Paranaguá

Product Design Leader

Yola, I am
Alexandre Paranaguá,
Design & Product Leader

Product and design leader with 10+ years of experience shaping and scaling complex digital products across financial services, healthcare, AI, retail, and enterprise environments.

My work sits at the intersection of product, experience, business, and technology. I help teams turn ambiguous problems and emerging opportunities into clear product direction — combining systems thinking, strategic influence, and hands-on execution.

Throughout my career, I have worked with founders, executives, product managers, designers, and engineering teams to define product strategy, align multiple stakeholders, validate new opportunities, and take complex initiatives from early ambiguity to launch. My experience spans product discovery, service and experience design, platform thinking, operating models, and AI-native product development.

More recently, I’ve deliberately moved closer to building again, using AI, functional prototyping, and code-assisted workflows to shorten the distance between an idea, a working product, and real user feedback.

I’ve led cross-functional teams from opportunity identification through launch, influencing R$15M+ in product and innovation investments, reducing validation cycles by up to 70%, and building practices that improve speed, quality, and business impact.

Past Clients

Experience

Professional

STOCCI
Principal Product Designer

2024-2026

NO ONE DESIGN COMPANY
Head of Design

2023-2024

ACCENTURE SONG
Product Leader

2021-2023

D3
Product Owner

2019-2020

FJORD, part of Accenture
Service Designer

2017-2019

Digital Society
School Amsterdam

UX & Visual Designer

2016-2017

Education

PUC-RJ
BA Graphic design

2008-2013

Go home

What I do

Venture Building
Case Study

Systems Mapping

Product Visioning
Concept Validation

MVP Definition
Go-to-Market Strategy

Research

Benchmark analysis

Customer journey mapping
User behaviour analysis

Target group analysis

Trends & Foresight

Speculative design
Data analysis

Strategic Design
Service Blueprint
Ecosystem Maps
Design Research
Opportunity framing
Speculative design
Business Model Shift
Research reports

Digital design
UX/UI design
Interaction design
Digital prototyping
Information architecture
Brand portals

Brand Strategy

Brand architecture

Digital Strategy

Naming

Portfolio strategy

Brand Experience

Digital product design

Retail environments

Exhibitions/Events

Packaging Design

Service design

Application design

Brand Design

Visual identity

Verbal identity

Sound Identity

Brand guidelines

Mentoring
Talks or Workshops
Curriculum Toolkit
Career Guidance

AlexANDRE Paranagua, SCALING EXPERIENCE through products, services and
operating models

paranagua.alexandre@gmail.com