AVAILABLE FOR IMPACT IN Q3
PRODUCT Strategy DESIGN
ACCELERATION
with AI.

Tania Vieira

Your product teams are moving fast. Your design thinking isn't keeping up. Discovery gets skipped. Research sits unread. Decisions get made without the evidence that was already there. The problem isn't speed. It's that no one is connecting insight to direction. That's where products drift, teams misalign and opportunities get missed. I've spent the last 16+ years helping organisations close that gap by connecting insight, strategy and execution.

Explore the Work → Product Strategy & Design Lead · Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
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Years building digital products

Building digital products across Enterprise software, B2B SaaS, regulated industries and operationally complex environments.

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Products shipped

Across SaaS platforms, web and mobile apps, enterprise systems, internal tools and operational workflows.

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Professionals empowered

Helped designers and professionals develop new capabilities, strengthen their practice and grow into their next role.

Tania Vieira Nielsen Norman Group UX Certified

Turning ambiguity into outcomes

For over 16 years, I've worked across enterprise software, B2B SaaS, regulated industries and operationally complex environments.

My experience spans banking, utilities, compliance, mobility, scientific publishing, freight management and digital transformation initiatives.

I've built research programmes, established design practices, mentored professionals and helped organisations connect user insight with product direction.

Today, I work at the intersection of product strategy, systems thinking and AI-enabled execution, helping teams move from ambiguity to clarity and from ideas to outcomes.

DESIGN LEADERSHIP PRODUCT DISCOVERY AI-NATIVE PROTOTYPING DESIGN SYSTEMS UX RESEARCH SYSTEMS THINKING AGILE
LANGUAGES
🇬🇧🇺🇸 English FLUENT
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🇵🇹 Portuguese NATIVE
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🇪🇸 Spanish INTERMEDIATE

Services

From product strategy to AI-powered execution, I help teams turn complex problems into products people actually use.

  • Product discovery
  • User research
  • Opportunity assessment
  • Product vision and roadmap alignment
  • Workshop facilitation
  • End-to-end product design
  • Complex workflow design
  • Design systems
  • UX optimisation
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • AI-powered prototyping
  • MVP exploration
  • Concept validation
  • Design-to-code workflows
  • Faster experimentation cycles

Experience highlights

Over the last 16+ years, I've helped teams navigate complexity, align around opportunities and build products that create value for both users and businesses.

My experience spans enterprise software, B2B SaaS, regulated industries and operationally complex environments, including banking, compliance, mobility, scientific publishing and freight management.

Whether building design practices, establishing research programmes, launching products from scratch or helping teams adopt new ways of working, my focus has always been the same: turning ambiguity into clarity and ideas into outcomes.

Design leadership

Building teams, practices and ways of working that enable better product decisions.

Research programmes

Established research practices, frameworks and insights programmes from the ground up.

0→1 Products

Designed and launched products, platforms and capabilities from concept to delivery.

Design systems

Created scalable systems, patterns and processes that helped teams move faster with consistency.

Complex workflows

Designed tools used daily across operational and business-critical environments.

AI-enabled workflows

Applying AI to accelerate research, design, prototyping and product development.

Industries I've worked in

Over the last 16+ years, I've worked across regulated, operational and business-critical industries.

Automotive B2B e-Commerce Banking Corporate Governance tech FinTech FreightTech & Fleet management systems Geodesy and Surveying & Construction tech Global Health Media & entertainment Philanthropy RegTech & Compliance automation Scientific publishing Smart mobility & Digital payments Utilities

Organisations I've worked with

A selection of organisations, products and initiatives I've contributed to throughout my career.

Philanthropy
Automotive
Global Health
Media & entertainment
Scientific publishing
Utilities
Banking
Smart mobility & Digital payments
Smart mobility & Digital payments
B2B e-Commerce
Corporate Governance tech & Board management SaaS
Teodoliten Geodesy and Surveying & Construction tech
FreightTech & Fleet management systems
RegTech & Compliance automation
Digital product & Innovation consultancy

Tools & experiments

A collection of AI-assisted products exploring product strategy, design acceleration and problem-solving.

Product Debt Calculator

Measure and visualise the weight of technical, workflow, knowledge and decision debt in your product.

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Tab Backlog

You've been telling yourself you'll "get to those tabs later." This extension counts them up, estimates your total reading time, and presents the evidence without comment. The conclusions are yours to draw. You have more tabs open than you think. This extension will prove it.

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Let's close the gap

Whether you're scaling a design practice, untangling a complex product, or bringing AI into how your team works, I'd love to hear what you're working on.