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Resume

I am an experienced designer with a bachelor's degree in Design and an MBA in Corporate Strategy. My primary strength lies in understanding business goals and translating them into products and services that offer outstanding user experiences.

 

By bringing together analytic capabilities, creativity, and interpersonal relationship skills to engage stakeholders, I set up high performance creative teams for different given contexts, providing a clear strategy, processes, goals and KPIs. Additionally, I hold both Italian and Brazilian passports, which facilitate travel and relocation as needed.

Work experience

Nuvemshop

Brazil / Argentina

Jul. 2021 - Dec. 2023

Nuvemshop is Latin America's latest unicorn, valued at USD 1.1 billion. The company provides e-commerce management solutions (B2C SaaS) for more than 120,000 stores across the region. 

Hapvida NotreDame
Brazil

Oct. 2018 - Jul. 2021

Hapvida is the largest healthcare company in Latin America, with a market capitalization of USD 11 billion. The organization provides health insurance plans and medical services to over 16 million clients in Brazil.

INSITUM
(Part of Accenture)

Brazil

Jan. 2018 - Oct. 2018

INSITUM (now Accenture Song) was a global consultancy with offices in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Chicago, and São Paulo, with clients such as Uber, Meta, Grupo Bimbo and XP Inc.

VRD Research

Brazil / Italy

Aug. 2015 - Jan. 2018

 VRD is an award-winning consultancy based in São Paulo and Bologna, serving clients such as General Mills, Roche, Ferrero, and Lavazza.

MJV Innovation

Brazil

May 2012 - Aug. 2015

MJV is a global technology and innovation consultancy, with offices in Atlanta, Rome, Paris, London, São Paulo and Lisbon, serving clients such as Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, SulAmérica, TIM, and MAPFRE.

Design Director

Responsibilities:

• Team setup and team management across 2 business units and 11 squads in Brazil and Argentina, totaling 21 individual contributors.
• Define business strategy, product roadmap, and pipeline prioritization in collaboration with C-levels and directors.
• Establish the design vision, work process, and UX guidelines for all Nuvemshop's products.
• Project leadership with technology, product, marketing, and data science teams.

Achievements:

• Established a new business unit from concept to monetization within 3 months, by collaborating  with Product and Technology directors in strategy, roadmap, features definition, and wireframing.
• Helped the growth from 85k clients to 120k (45% growth in 30 months) by leading more than 30 different product updates.
• Brought $ 20 million/year in gross merchandise value (2% of the company's total) by leading two new features launch.
Doubled the design team pace, by reorganizing the work process and defining individual career plans.
Reduced the team cost in 20% by reevaluating positions and allocations.
• Enhanced the Core product speed by 3x and user adoption by 71% by leading the migration of ~1.200 screens from a PHP monolith to microservices using specific design and research methods.
• Increased the conversion rate of new customers by 20%, by leading the redesign of the institutional website.

Head of Innovation and Design

Responsibilities:
• Envision new businesses and digital products to drive the company's digital transformation.
• Lead the innovation agenda at the monthly innovation committee, with the company's chairman, CEO and vice presidents.
• Estimate ROI, revenue forecasting, and P&L for digital initiatives.
• Product management, innovation program management, and leadership of open innovation initiatives.
• Lead executive and investors reports regarding innovation initiatives.

Achievements:
Launched the company’s innovation department by defining its structure, strategy, KPIs and project pipeline. The department was responsible for digital products and open innovation initiatives, comprising 13 people.
• Yielded a total of $ 6.7M in revenue and savings by releasing 7 products.
• Enabled more than 6 million teleconsultations, with savings
around $ 1.2M and an NPS of 88%
, by leading the platform design.
Saved more than $ 1.5M by leading the product team at implementing a new digital medical evaluation.
Led 5 different proofs of concepts with startups, leading to the hire of two of them as regular suppliers.
• Delivered an average ROI of 140% with the department.

Service Design Manager

Responsibilities:
• Executive stakeholder management, including C-levels.

• Market development with international companies.
• Guide multidisciplinary teams in the creation of new services and digital experiences using design thinking and UX design methodologies. 
 

Achievements:

• Assessed the implementation of an innovation framework for a multinational food company, impacting 8 business units in 6 different countries.
25 leaders of a multinational industry trained in innovation methods by delivering an executive training and mentorship program.

• Delivered new services for an international digital payment company to reinvent its relationship with long tail customers.

Managing Partner

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Brazilian office operations, including people and finance.
• Executive-level stakeholder engagement.
• Drive client base and sales growth.
• Led project execution, including research, workshops, ideation processes and prototyping validation

Achievements:

Guided the launch of 3 new food products for a global company by crafting a new portfolio framework.
•  Delivered new strategic services for a global pharmaceutical company, impacting more than 30 hospitals, clinics, and distributors.

• Designed new services for an Italian food company to create a stronger competitive strategy on the Brazilian market.

Innovation Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• High-level stakeholder management, encompassing C-levels.
• New business and sales development with global companies.
• Managed project activities, calendar, and deliverables.
• Led multidisciplinary teams on designing new business solutions using tools like ethnographic research, wireframes, user journeys, storyboards, prototypes and concept layouts.

Achievements:
• Established a business account worth of $ 3 million, leading five different projects;
• Generated $ 2M in savings for an insurance client by designing digital solutions. The project achieved a ROI of over 270%.
• Designed a digital platform for the leading educational company in Brazil, with more than 3.5 million daily users
• Led the design of a mobile app for medical auditing in hospitals, resulting in an organic adoption of 79%.
• Led the redesign of a BPO system for health insurance operations;
• Designed a new customer service strategy and solutions to rethink the call center experience for an insurance company.

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Education

2013 - 2014

2004 - 2009

2007 - 2008

MBA in Corporate Strategy

BSP - Business School São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

Bachelor in Design 
Federal University of Paraná

Curitiba, Brazil

Exchange Program
Köln International School of Design

Cologne, Germany

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Languages

Portuguese

Native fluency

English

Professional working proficiency

Spanish

Professional working proficiency

Italian

Elementary proficiency

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Additional experinces

2018 - 2022

2019

2018

2015

Co-founder at Projeto Namoa

A social platform to support refugees in Brazil. Volunteer work.

Contributing Writer at The Funnel Magazine

Innovation, and entrepreneurship articles for the Brazilian edition.

Guest Teacher at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED)

Business and Service Design classes, and Graduation Projects Mentorship.

MBA Teacher at Faculdades Rio Branco

Business Design and Service Design classes at the Branding Innovation MBA.

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© 2024 Fabio Calzavara
 

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