Summary
Maria S is a Senior UX Manager at Google with 13 years of experience designing award-winning B2B and B2C digital products across ads, hospitality, healthcare, and wearables. She has a strong track record of building and scaling cross-functional design teams, hiring and mentoring remote and in-office talent, and establishing user-centered design processes that align with company OKRs. Previously she led Product & Design at ALICE, where she grew a 12-person design organization and drove roadmap and execution for hospitality platforms. Her background spans hands-on interaction design, rapid prototyping, and interdisciplinary work from museum projection mapping to gesture-based medical interfaces. Trained at NYU ITP and with startup founder experience in wearables, she combines creative experimentation with operational rigor to deliver measurable customer impact. Based in New York, she brings both strategic leadership and a maker’s curiosity to complex product challenges.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student Industrial Design, Exchange student Industrial Design at Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Master's degree Interactive Telecommunications Program, Master's degree Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University
Bachelor Design, Bachelor Design at UERJ
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French