I'm Marivi

Marivi

Ive spent the last 13+ years helping companies navigate moments of transformationlaunching new products, modernizing platforms, scaling design organizations, and partnering across Product and Engineering to turn strategy into meaningful customer outcomes.

A design

A design

& product leader

& product leader

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About

The best products are built by teams that are aligned around a shared vision. Throughout my career, I’ve focused on creating that alignment—bringing Product, Design, and Engineering together to solve complex problems, navigate change, and deliver experiences that create lasting customer and business value.


As a Product Design Leader, I believe my greatest impact comes from building the conditions for great work to happen. That means coaching and growing designers, establishing thoughtful design practices, fostering strong cross-functional partnerships, and helping teams make confident decisions in the face of ambiguity. Whether launching a 0→1 product, modernizing a legacy platform, or leading an acquisition migration, I enjoy bringing clarity to complexity and helping organizations move forward together.


Learning a second language and adapting to different cultures has shaped the way I lead. It taught me to listen first, communicate with empathy and clarity, and approach challenges with curiosity rather than assumptions. Those experiences continue to influence how I build relationships, navigate diverse perspectives, and create environments where people feel empowered to contribute their best ideas.


Today, I lead Product Design at Realtor.com, overseeing a portfolio of strategic products across desktop, mobile, and web experiences for real estate professionals. I partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to shape product strategy, launch new businesses, modernize platforms, and build high-performing teams that deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.

The best products are built by teams that are aligned around a shared vision. Throughout my career, I’ve focused on creating that alignment—bringing Product, Design, and Engineering together to solve complex problems, navigate change, and deliver experiences that create lasting customer and business value.


As a Product Design Leader, I believe my greatest impact comes from building the conditions for great work to happen. That means coaching and growing designers, establishing thoughtful design practices, fostering strong cross-functional partnerships, and helping teams make confident decisions in the face of ambiguity. Whether launching a 0→1 product, modernizing a legacy platform, or leading an acquisition migration, I enjoy bringing clarity to complexity and helping organizations move forward together.


Learning a second language and adapting to different cultures has shaped the way I lead. It taught me to listen first, communicate with empathy and clarity, and approach challenges with curiosity rather than assumptions. Those experiences continue to influence how I build relationships, navigate diverse perspectives, and create environments where people feel empowered to contribute their best ideas.


Today, I lead Product Design at Realtor.com, overseeing a portfolio of strategic products across desktop, mobile, and web experiences for real estate professionals. I partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to shape product strategy, launch new businesses, modernize platforms, and build high-performing teams that deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.

Ava DeVoe

Senior Product Design Manager
@ Realtor.com

I’ve learned so much from Marivi. She’s a smart strategist who is able to balance broad systems thinking with tactical ways to test and deliver new or improved experiences. One of Marivi’s strengths is her passion and advocacy for users. She’s able to explain her design decisions in a way that brings her cross-functional partners into her thinking, creating a foundation of user empathy across the entire team. I loved working with her.

Nate Rodriguez

Lead User Researcher

@ Phantom

I had the pleasure of teaming up with Marivi at The Zebra, where I was a User Researcher and she the Product Designer. Our collaboration was a winning mix of design and user insights, creating products that people genuinely appreciated. Marivi excels at integrating user insights into her design choices and using those insights to guide overall strategy. I look forward to the possibility of working together again in the future

Chelsea Shaw

Lead UI Engineer
@ HashiCorp

I met Marivi when I joined Spiceworks as the marketing web developer. She quickly became one of my favorite designers to work with, so much so that we chose to work together on a number of side projects. Her visual aesthetic is effortlessly cool, simple, and fun. She is very organized and excellent at communication. As a developer, I appreciated her flexibility when implementing the designs, to modify for the technical limitations I faced. Collaborating with Marivi not only produces an excellent result — her upbeat attitude makes it a joyful experience!

Experience

I believe design is a long game, and it is essential to have a vision for what we’re building and create a strategy for how to get there. With patience, flexibility, and influence, an MVP can be optimized to achieve the ideal experience.

I've been fortunate to be able to work on multiple zero-to-one products over the past 7 years.

Realtor.com

Senior Design Manager

2024- current

The Zebra

Director of product design

2020 – 2024

The Zebra

Product Design Manager

2019 – 2020

The Zebra

Product Designer

2017 – 2019

Spiceworks

Visual Designer

2014 – 2017

Services

As a design leader and dedicated individual contributor, I bring over 10 years of experience to projects that push boundaries and solve meaningful user challenges. I enjoy collaborating with teams to create exceptional products and have over seven years of experience guiding and mentoring design talent.

Experience Design

Ensuring a user-friendly, consistent, and personalized product that aligns with both business goals and brand identity is crucial.

Experience Design

Ensuring a user-friendly, consistent, and personalized product that aligns with both business goals and brand identity is crucial.

Experience Design

Ensuring a user-friendly, consistent, and personalized product that aligns with both business goals and brand identity is crucial.

Visual Design + UI

Defining or evolving your brand through UI design, and micro-interactions, while defining a design system.

Visual Design + UI

Defining or evolving your brand through UI design, and micro-interactions, while defining a design system.

Visual Design + UI

Defining or evolving your brand through UI design, and micro-interactions, while defining a design system.

Product Strategy

Help teams understand users, set goals, and implement effective features through frameworks, innovation and collaboration.

Product Strategy

Help teams understand users, set goals, and implement effective features through frameworks, innovation and collaboration.

Product Strategy

Help teams understand users, set goals, and implement effective features through frameworks, innovation and collaboration.

Design Leadership

I have the experience to lead a team or individually contribute to design needs.

Design Leadership

I have the experience to lead a team or individually contribute to design needs.

Design Leadership

I have the experience to lead a team or individually contribute to design needs.