María Iglesias

Product Designer

Strategy,
systems,
and people

15+ years designing at scale — from global fintech and EV infrastructure to, currently, adidas, where I lead design for internal tools, CRM experience, and content systems across global markets.

I trained as an Art Director. I think in communication, persuasion, and systems. I work best in conditions of genuine complexity — multi-country rollouts, cross-functional dependencies, legacy constraints — and I measure success by the decisions I enable, not just the screens I deliver.

2023 —
Present
adidas
Lead Product Designer

Strategic redesign of the B2B sell-in experience. Full CRM audit across 30+ lifecycle programmes, shifting from broadcast to moment-driven communications. End-to-end design system for 30+ internal tools: 40+ components, contribution model, and governance framework. MVP for an internal content personalisation tool.

2021 —
2023
The Cocktail
Lead Product Designer · Design Manager

Embedded at Wallbox (Nasdaq) — full app redesign, App Store rating from 2.4 to 4.0★. Cross-team workflows across product, tech, data, and design. Also: e-commerce A/B testing at Repsol, website redesign at ISDI.

2015 —
2021
BBVA
Senior Product Designer

4 innovation features shipped across 7 countries — +19% travel insurance purchases, +40% loan conversions. Design system for wearables. Co-created 1,100+ experiences with Millennials across EU, US, and Mexico.

2006 —
2023
Teaching & Earlier
Lecturer · Art Director

Lecturer at CEU San Pablo University (Art Direction, Customer Journey, Creative Strategy) and School Up. Art Director at McCann Erickson, TBWA, Havas Life, Saatchi & Saatchi — clients include Pfizer, Roche, Coca-Cola, PlayStation, McDonald's.

Current
Product Direction & Culture
Instituto Tramontana
2021
Futures Design
Instituto Tramontana
2021
Business Expert
The Power MBA
2016
Service Design
H2i Institute
2012
A Crash Course on Creativity
Stanford University — online
2009
Intensive Creative Portfolio
School of Visual Arts, New York
2006
Master's in Advertising & PR
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Design Figma · Design Systems · Service Design · User Testing · Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign
Methods Design Thinking · Agile / Scrum · Lean Startup · A/B Testing · Shape Up
AI Claude Code · LLM integration across the design process · AI-assisted portfolio development
Collab Miro · GitHub · Jira · Confluence · Slack · MS Teams · Trello
Languages Spanish (native) · English (advanced, working proficiency)