Summary
Lívia Amorim is a UX Design leader with 11 years of experience building DesignOps and Design System capabilities across high-growth Latin American tech companies. She has led design teams at Mercado Livre, Trybe and QuintoAndar, scaling processes to support thousands of designers and embedding continuous discovery and research-led practices. Known for turning chaotic product environments into governed, repeatable systems, she created courses, spoke at industry conferences and published widely to advance the DesignOps community. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, she combines hands-on hiring and team development with a deep focus on social impact through EdTech and B-Corp initiatives. A detail that often goes unnoticed: she has repeatedly built the first Research and UX Writing functions in organizations, seeding cross-functional capabilities that outlast her tenure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Brazilian Sign Language