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victor@salciotti.comThroughout my career, I have collaborated with a diverse range of B2B and B2C tech companies spanning a wide array of industries and maturity levels. Armed with valuable insights into the transformative power of design, I embarked on a quest to effectively communicate with business leaders and demonstrate how a design-informed approach can significantly reshape decision-making and product development.
Leveraging an MBA, a Masters in Strategic Design, and over a decade of collaboration with world-class strategists and engineers, today I serve as Director of Product Design at OLX Europe, where I foster close partnerships with leadership peers in Product, Data, and Engineering and also mentor and empower a growing multicultural design team.
UX & Strategic Design
Engaging with customers to uncover unmet needs, opportunities for value creation, product innovation and growth.
Business & Product
Translating insights into product visions that lead teams to fulfill customer’s needs and businesses' north-star metrics.
Product Design
Leveraging user's insights and leading Designers in creating hypotheses, exploring solutions, and achieving goals.
People Management
Helping my teams tackle the right problems and create high impact while making sure every person finds joy & fulfillment at work.
Transitioning from Graphic Design to UX
I developed a keen interest in UX while still working as an Illustrator and Graphic Designer – which led me to transition to Interaction Design early in my career.
Deep diving into Business and Entrepreneurship
As I got more experienced with UX, I realized I could leverage design to create a more substantial impact on businesses. I enrolled in an MBA program and later opened a studio with two partners, mixing business strategy and UX design as a service. In 2013, after an "acqui-hiring" proposal, I joined this exciting company called eSapiens Ventures.
Life, Work & Grad School in NYC
One year later, I received a scholarship offer to course the Master's Program in Strategic Design at Parsons The New School in New York City. Despite the stressful routine of school, full-time work, and volunteer sessions at startup accelerators, I spent a fantastic couple of years in NYC.
Business leadership and a new challenge in Europe
In 2016, I returned to Brazil to lead an Innovation Lab within eSapiens. After almost three years leading teams and launching new successful ventures, in 2019, OLX Group invited me to join its Lisbon tech hub as Product Design Manager. Now, almost a year at this role, I'm proud and excited about the impact my team is creating across this massive company.
