Marcos Perez

Lead Product Designer @ Alight Solutions | UX/UI Design, Leadership

Role
Lead Product Designer End-to-end Platform Design at Alight Solutions
Location
Chicago, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Marcos Perez

Lead product designer with 10+ years building complex B2B and platform experiences. I simplify complexity, align teams around clear frameworks, and ship polished, scalable systems. Known for elevating design quality, mentoring designers, and driving cross-functional momentum from discovery through delivery. I bring a mix of systems thinking, human-centered craft, and a track record of leading teams through complexity to ship products that move the business forward.

Experience

  1. Lead Product Designer End-to-end Platform Design

    Alight Solutions

    Mar 2023 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

    Led design for a zero-to-one IRA product, coordinating 40+ stakeholders across internal teams and two external partners; aligned teams on a shared UX vision in a regulated domain, contributing to a new revenue stream for the organization.Led end-to-end redesign of the Annual Enrollment experience, modernizing a long-standing product that had become a direct point of client concern and helping reposition it as a competitive, differentiated offering.Navigated a complex mid-project partner integration, balancing external constraints with product vision and design system integrity to deliver a cohesive final experience.Stepped into a design leadership role during a period of organizational change, ensuring continuity, clarity, and delivery stability across the design team.Mentored and managed 3 designers through structured critiques and coaching on strategy, systems thinking, UI craft, and decision-making; developed an AI prompting framework to align team workflows with company-wide AI integration goals.Implemented an agile design practice and partnered with UXR to run iterative studies and make data-informed design decisions across high-stakes workflows including analytics, enrollment, and financial tasks.Contributed to the Alight Design System by co-writing component specifications and ensuring accessibility compliance.

Education

  • Columbia College Chicago

    Bachelor's of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

    2011 — 2013

  • DePaul University

    Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction

    2018 — 2020

  • City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College

    Associate of Arts - AA, General Studies

    2006 — 2010

Skills

  • Branding
  • Keynote
  • Poster Design
  • Branding
  • Indesign
  • Photoshop
  • Os X
  • Photography
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Graphic Design
  • Branding & Identity
  • Posters
  • Mac
  • Illustrator
  • Typography
  • Visual Communication
  • Ilife
  • Iwork
  • Graphics

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