Julian Gaviria

Experience

Amplify, Brooklyn, NY

• Director, Product Design / Ocotober 2022 - August 2023

  • Led a team of four product designers at Amplify, a leading K-12 education technology company serving educators nationwide, to create analytics and insights experiences that empowered data-informed decision-making and improved student learning outcomes.
  • Partnered with product management and engineering to launch a Math Reporting Dashboard for Fall 2023, providing actionable, student-level performance insights to teachers.
  • Introduced foundational design principles—focusing on clarity, accessibility, and consistency—that were adopted company-wide across all product teams.
  • Established a design system and guiding frameworks for data visualization, streamlining the development process and enabling scalable, insight-driven solutions.

Thomasnet.com, New York, NY (Acquired by Xometry on December 2021)

• VP, Product & Design / December 2020 - June 2022

  • Led and scaled product and design for Thomasnet.com, the leading industrial sourcing platform with a monthly active user base of over 1.7 million buyers and suppliers; managed and mentored a cross-functional product and design team of six.
  • Introduced a multi-sided platform strategy focused on growing core transactions and increasing match value between buyers and suppliers; architected, generated consensus, and executed on a feature roadmap that brought this strategy to fruition.
  • Partnered with data science to build a reporting dashboard for our monetized user base with the objective of demonstrating ROI and upselling to paid subscriptions; currently the leading upsell feature.
  • Streamlined supplier onboarding with a self-service claiming process, resulting in 4,938 claimed profiles within two months.
  • Defined and led design for real-time messaging and project quoting features, connecting buyers and suppliers directly within the platform.

• Director, UX & Experimentation / July 2017 - December 2020

  • Led and scaled product and design for Thomasnet.com, an industrial sourcing platform with 1.7M+ monthly active buyers and suppliers; managed and mentored a cross-functional team of six.
  • Introduced a multi-sided platform strategy to boost transactions and buyer-supplier value; developed and executed a feature roadmap to realize this vision.
  • Partnered with data science to build a reporting dashboard demonstrating ROI and driving upsells to paid subscriptions.
  • Streamlined supplier onboarding with a self-service claiming process, resulting in 4,938 claimed profiles within two months.
  • Defined and led design for real-time messaging and project quoting features, connecting buyers and suppliers directly within the platform.

  Thomas Marketing Services, New York, NY

• Manager, Design & Development / August 2014 - June 2015

  • Led the design, development, and optimization of 200+ conversion-focused marketing websites for Thomas Marketing Services.
  • Recruited and managed a ten-person cross-functional team.
  • Launched a growth-focused subdivision centered on experimentation and A/B testing, generating $500K+ in six months.
  • Onboarded an offshore development team to handle overflow.
  • Introduced a modern WordPress/Git stack powering 600+ client sites.
  • Standardized reusable design patterns and baseline systems, improving production efficiency.

• Lead Front-End Developer / June 2013 - August 2014

  • Worked closely with marketing strategists, writers, and designers to bring a new marketing agency division from zero to a $1.5 million-dollar subsidiary.
  • Built a front-end framework to automate the website development and production process.
  • Designed and developed 25+ conversion-focused marketing websites.