UX Manager & Design Leader

I build the design function organizations actually need.

20 years leading enterprise UX at IBM, Deloitte Digital, and Backbase — teams, systems, and strategy at scale.

Worked withIBMDeloitte DigitalAT&TBackbaseBanorteMotorola Solutions

Selected work

Enterprise UX at scale — 2015–2024
AT&T · Deloitte Digital — Customer Connect Design System
AT&T · Deloitte DigitalDesign System · Leadership

Customer Connect Design System

AT&T's Salesforce ecosystem had fragmented experiences across Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and Marketing Cloud. Three companies working in separate Figma spaces — no unified design standards, slow approvals, no governance.

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2→16+Designers in 6 months
5,000+User stories delivered
60%Design system adoption
Backbase · LATAM Banks — Digital Banking UX
Backbase · LATAM BanksResearch · Fintech

Digital Banking UX

Two large Latin American banks were losing customers to friction in their key digital journeys. Retail customers struggled with complex onboarding flows; corporate clients faced cumbersome payroll processes.

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65%Drop-off reduction
~45%Faster task completion
~40%Error rate reduction
Motorola Solutions · Deloitte Digital — Oracle CPQ Redesign
Motorola Solutions · Deloitte DigitalEnterprise · CPQ

Oracle CPQ Redesign

Motorola Solutions needed to modernize their Oracle CPQ platform — used daily by sales teams across North America and Europe. The existing interface was complex and inconsistent, slowing quoting and increasing training overhead.

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45%Task efficiency gain
NA+EURegional alignment
RedwoodDesign system adopted
Banorte · IBM — Mobile Banking App
Banorte · IBMMobile · Team Building

Mobile Banking App

Banorte needed to redesign its mobile banking app and public web portal from the ground up — no existing UX team, waterfall methodology, stakeholders in two cities, banking regulations at every turn.

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12Person team built
5BAs turned UX contributors
2+ yrDesign in production

EricGalván Ríos

UX Manager & Design Leader

Querétaro, Mexico · Open to remote & relocation

Certifications

Enterprise Design Thinking Coach

Professional Scrum Master

Professional Product Owner

IBM Agile Champion

Claude 101 & Claude Code 101

I help organizations build the design function they actually need.

Over 20 years I've led UX at scale for IBM, Deloitte Digital, and Backbase — delivering enterprise products for US global companies including AT&T, Motorola Solutions, and Lithia Motors, and major banks across Mexico and LATAM.

I've built design teams from the ground up, created design systems adopted across entire organizations, and brought structure to environments where fragmentation was slowing everything down.

My work sits at the intersection of design leadership, operations, and strategy. I don't just manage designers — I build the conditions for design to have a real impact on business outcomes.

Core expertise

Building & scaling UX teams (2→20+ designers) with the right structure, rituals, and culture
Enterprise design systems — architecture, governance, adoption, and tooling
Design operations: onboarding, quality reviews, dev handoff standards, Figma org administration
Stakeholder alignment across business, technology, and leadership in multi-company engagements
Design Thinking facilitation and capability building for clients and internal teams
Financial services, telecom, SaaS, and enterprise B2B platform design

Contact

Let's build something that matters.

Open to UX Manager, Head of UX, and senior IC roles. Also available for consulting and Design Thinking facilitation.