Marco S.

Marco S. has extensive experience in product design and leadership roles. Marco is currently working as a Design Director at Sora Union, focusing on bringing distributed work opportunities to displaced individuals. Prior to this, they served as the Head of Product / Core and Design at 5ireChain, contributing to the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Marco also worked as a Product Lead at ZenderPay, where they built and led a product development team. Marco has experience in startup environments, including their role as the Director of Product Design at Sensla, where they led the team and designed the product roadmap. Before that, Marco served as the Product Director - Regional Products at Spectrum Tecnologia, where they led product vision and created innovative strategies. Marco co-founded advertisingcake, where they managed multiple projects and brands, and also worked as a Product Lead - Design at Crema Creativa / Digital Advertising Agency. Early in their career, Marco was a co-founder and Film-VFX Director at Advertti Projects, where they worked on digital illustration and 3D animation for well-known international brands.

Marco S. obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Graphics from The Art Institutes, where they studied from 1999 to 2003. In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the following:

- Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI from IBM in July 2021

- Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator from IBM in July 2021

- Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner from IBM in July 2021

- IBM Carbon Design System Developer Essentials - React from IBM in July 2021

- Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap from PMI Registered Education Provider in June 2021

- UX Research: Journey Mapping from Linkedin Learning in June 2021

- Building a Product from Scratch from LinkedIn in January 2021

- Creating Growth Projections for Your Business from LinkedIn in January 2021

- Developing Business Acumen from LinkedIn in January 2021

- Introduction to User Experience Design from Georgia Institute of Technology in January 2021

- Making Great Messages from IBM in January 2021

- Product Management First Steps from LinkedIn in January 2021

- Creating and Running an Agile Project in JIRA from Udemy, without specifying the month and year.