Felipe Alarcón

Senior UX / Product Designer & Team Lead
Santiago, Chile +56 9 9797 90452 felipe.alarcon.g@gmail.com
Statement

Senior UX Designer with 14+ years leading cross-functional teams in gaming and digital products. Specialized in Game UX and Product Design for Fintech/E-commerce, delivering scalable design systems and experiences for 350M+ users. Balanced leadership with hands-on design execution.

Expertise Mapping

Leadership

  • Team Management
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Design Critique

Methods

  • User Research
  • Information Architecture
  • Usability Testing
  • Journey Mapping

Domains

  • Game UX & LiveOps
  • Fintech & E-commerce
  • Web3 UI & AI Tools
  • WCAG AA/AAA Compliance
Technical Stack
Figma Make Miro Maze Nanobanana Antigravity Cursor Midjourney Google AI Studio
Experience
Senior UX Manager | UX/UI Team Lead Gala Games
2023.05 — 2026.02
  • Directed a 5-person cross-functional UX/UI team for PC and mobile titles, establishing design critique workflows that streamlined production and minimized engineering rework.
  • Architected and evolved scalable design systems from scratch for flagship original IPs, including Mirandus, Vexi, and Last Expedition, while pioneering AI-augmented prototyping pipelines using Nanobanana and customized JSON prompting.
  • Re-engineered the end-to-end checkout funnel and marketplace discovery architecture to drastically reduce user drop-off during high-volume, high-stress primary NFT sales events.
  • Designed high-converting marketplace frameworks and landing pages leveraging behavioral economics, scarcity principles, and transparent social proof vectors.
The Impact

Reduced conceptual design-to-prototype cycles by 40% through AI-assisted asset workflows, while driving a verified +35% conversion rate uplift on web and mobile storefronts by streamlining information architecture around players' mental models.

Senior Game UX Designer - Tech Lead Fortnite / Epic Games
2022.02 — 2023.05
  • Owned the interaction architecture for the main menu, social lobby, and game-mode selection systems, operating in high-velocity Agile sprints to support a live-service global ecosystem.
  • Designed cross-platform party selection mechanics and contextual sidebars, validating iterative flows via rapid user testing and behavioral research protocols.
The Impact

Successfully compressed the core social onboarding flow from 5 to 3 interaction steps, directly decreasing user cognitive load and friction for a global base of 350M+ active players.

Senior UX Designer – Digital Products LATAM Airlines
2019.08 — 2022.02
  • Led the holistic end-to-end UX/UI mobile redesign of the global ticketing and checkout infrastructure, treating the application as a highly optimized, independent digital ecosystem.
  • Managed complex layouts handling multi-segment flight data and real-time luggage telemetry under high-stress travel conditions, strictly ensuring compliance with legal WCAG AAA accessibility requirements.
  • Chaperoned deep qualitative research loops and interviews with premium tiers (LATAM Pass) to build personalized, context-aware loyalty dashboards.
The Impact

Simplified post-purchase travel management for millions of international flyers and secured flawless accessibility compliance across the product's primary mobile onboarding flows.

UX/UI Designer – Fintech (MACH) BCI / Globant
2017.03 — 2019.08
  • Served as the founding lead UX designer tasked with architecting Chile's most democratic digital banking MVP from the ground up, translating complex financial compliance into friction-free user interfaces.
  • Designed and iterated the mobile-first registration, peer-to-peer transfers, and prepaid card issuing journeys in constant alignment with legal and security engineering teams.
The Impact

Successfully captured over 1 million active users within the first 12 months of launch, setting a country-wide historic milestone for financial inclusion among unbanked millennial demographics.

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