Resume | Julio Gonzalez

Experience

Interaction Designer | January 2024 - Present | San Francisco, CA

Led design for Data Canvas in BigQuery, an AI-first infinite canvas for exploratory data analysis, growing monthly active users by 63% and increasing retention by ~10% within six months. Highlights include a complete UI redesign and end-to-end design of an in-product AI agent showcased in the Google Cloud Next 2025 keynote.
Established foundational UX patterns for an advanced AI agent authoring tool across BigQuery, Looker, and Looker Studio, enabling data experts to add context and improve agent accuracy. Early evaluations saw a ~10%-20% accuracy increase.
Managed UX work for a major initiative to bring an AI-powered conversational analytics experience to BigQuery's ~800,000 users, streamlining design delivery and serving as the primary cross-functional POC across two product and engineering teams, and completing design and code completion in a single quarter.
Designed core chat components for Conversational Analytics in Looker, including agent responses with code and visualizations and led the migration from Material 2 to Material 3.

User Experience Designer | September 2022 - November 2023 | San Francisco, CA

Designed growth and marketing features for merchants using the early-stage B2B product Buy with Prime, enabling customers to use Amazon Prime benefits on third-party e-commerce sites.
Key features included integrations with email marketing services for automate abandoned checkout emails, a pricing calculator, and global account management for multi-account users.

Lead Product Designer | January 2019 - August 2022 | New York, NY

Design lead for Search, Chat, Benefits, and Loyalty product domains in the American Express consumer-facing native mobile app, serving 20M monthly active users across 20 global markets on iOS and Android.
Designed an offers experience feature that resulted in a 533% increase in the target OKR of year-over-year offers added to card.
Contributed to the mobile design system, serving a globally distributed team of 20 designers and ~60 engineers. Key contributions included data visualization, input fields, maps, motion design guidelines, and a semantic color system that enabled dark mode, which achieved a 40% user adoption rate in the first month.
Partnered with Product, Engineering, and Research teams to create a 3-year product vision, shifting the information architecture from an account-based to a customer-based model and adding the first checking account product.
Developed the first design QA process on the mobile team, significantly reducing post-release design bugs.
Conducted monthly usability testing sessions using high-fidelity prototypes to inform product decisions and reduce design risk.

UX/UI Designer | Mar 2018 - Dec 2018 | New York, NY

Designed multiple data analysis web apps for an internal big data platform, including a data library search tool, an extraction-transform-load tool, and a customer relationship manager.
Created a centralized file management workflow for designers, allowing them to share a single design system library and eliminating the need for manual file management.

Studio Assistant | February 2006 - November 2017 | New York, NY

Lead teams of artists in the production of large-scale charcoal drawings that were exhibited in major galleries and museums around the world

Certificate, UX Design Immersive | 2017 | New York, NY

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Film, Animation, and Video | 2005 | Providence, RI

Figma, Protopie, Agent Workflows, Context Engineering, Prompt Engineering, Visual Design, Usability Testing, HTML/CSS