Ricardo Vázquez
Director, Product Design at #paid
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Vázquez is a design leader with 11+ years crafting user-centered products at companies like Stripe, Dropbox, Shopify, Wealthsimple and Mozilla, currently directing Product Design for Money Management and Crypto at Stripe. He blends strategic vision with hands-on craft—having led large, cross-functional teams, multi-million dollar initiatives, and major multi-platform redesigns that improved retention, adoption and activation. An educator and mentor, he has taught UX and web development while advising startups, bringing a practiced ability to translate pedagogy into scalable design systems and team growth. His background in semiotics and long track record across consumer and fintech products give him a rare fluency in visual language, interaction, and business metrics. Colleagues describe him as a cultural steward who values aesthetic rigor, wit, and the “happiness of pursuit,” driving work that is both refined and purposefully courageous.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduate Certificate Interactive Multimedia, Post-Graduate Certificate Interactive Multimedia at Sheridan CollegeMBA Management and Leadership, MBA Management and Leadership at Royal Roads UniversityHBA Semiotics, HBA Semiotics at University of TorontoSeminar Courses Digital Typography Design Cityscapes and Fashion Illustration, Seminar Courses Digital Typography Design Cityscapes and Fashion Illustration at OCAD University
Italian, French, Spanish, English
Github Skills (44)
right-to-left9
mozilla9
frontend8
bootswatch8
bootstrap7
javascript7
glitch-com7
surface6
frp6
css6
django6
foundation6
react5
android5
php5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vazquez/goals
Jul 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch, 23 comments in 3 years 10 months
vazquez/webmaker-browser
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 13 branches in 11 months
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