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Carlos Palma

Product Design Engineer

Portugal

About

I am a Product Design Engineer with over 12 years of experience across Talent Tech, Web3, PropTech, and AI. I specialize in designing, developing, and launching features that are used by millions of users. My expertise ranges from UI/UX design to full-stack development, enabling me to build what I design and ensure a seamless user experience.

Experience

  • Founder

    Designjobs.careers

    Apr 2025 Present

    • Built and launched DesignJobs.Careers from scratch, a specialized job board for the design community. Handled all design, front-end, and back-end development solo, growing the platform to 500+ users and 7,600+ curated listings from verified companies organically.
    • Created an AI job matching system, an AI tool that converts Word documents into formatted job posts, and an automated blog generation system.
    • Built advanced search and filtering, location-based search, job alerts, user authentication, applicant tracking, salary guides, and employer posting features.
  • Lead Product Designer

    Bondex

    Feb 2023 Dec 2025

    • Joined Bondex at 1 million users and helped grow it to over 5 million.
    • Promoted to Lead Designer in October 2024. Designed the core flows people see first: onboarding, profile setup, job discovery, and referral systems.
    • Used Figma for everything from early wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes that we’d test with real users before building.
  • Lead Product Designer (Freelance)

    Dealbuilder

    Oct 2022 Feb 2025

    • Designed features and interfaces for DealBuilder, a business brokerage platform that automates deal management for brokers selling businesses. The platform handles client onboarding, financial data entry, buyer presentations, and deal listings.
    • Created the Make an Offer feature, buyer and seller onboarding flows, and redesigned the landing page and listings page.
    • Designed the AI-powered CIM (Confidential Information Memorandum) generation interface and email templates for automated workflows.
  • Senior Product Designer

    Homesearch

    May 2022 Feb 2023

    • Joined Homesearch to make the product more user-driven instead of guessing what estate agents needed.
    • Launched Homesearch's User Research Program to guide product development. Interviewed agents regularly, watched them use the platform, and identified where they were struggling.
    • Turned those insights into design improvements the product team could act on. Redesigned the component library in Figma to be more accessible and easier for the team to maintain.
  • Senior Product Designer

    Plentific

    Dec 2020 May 2022

    • Plentific is a property management platform used by landlords, contractors, and residents to handle repairs, maintenance, and property operations.
    • Worked with multiple product managers and designers to take ideas from rough concepts to detailed, interactive prototypes that showed how things would actually work, including edge cases and error states.
    • Designed complex user flows for the platform. These weren't simple happy-path flows. Lots of "what if this person doesn't have access" or "what if the contractor marks this complete but the resident disagrees" scenarios.
  • UX & Front-end

    Zoopla/PSG

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  • Digital Designer

    Argos

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Education

  • 2014

    BA Design for Graphic Communication

    University of the Arts London

  • 2011

    Business Management and Economics

    Secondary School João de Deus

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