Curriculum Vitae

Luis Octavio Manzur

Senior Product Designer & Design Engineer

Senior product designer and design engineer with 10+ years across UX/UI, design systems, and full-stack web development. I take products from Figma to production Rails, and I founded and built Eclipse, a white-label SaaS used by 12 studios and 12,000+ members. Currently Head of UX and Visual Design at Cosign, its first design hire. I work AI-natively, shipping production code daily with Claude Code. Based in Monterrey, Mexico · CST (full US overlap).

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Experience

Aug 2026 — Present

Head of UX and Visual Design

Cosign · rentwithcosign.com

  • First dedicated design hire at Cosign, a lease guarantor for U.S. rental real estate, owning design across brand, website, sales collateral, and content.
  • Evolving the brand book into a living design system so every surface reads as one brand.
  • Design and build marketing pages in Webflow, working with marketing and engineering.
  • Built the team's design request intake system in Notion, folding the existing sales collateral process into one workflow.
Mar 2025 — Present

Founder & Product Designer

Eclipse · eclipsecms.com

  • Founded and built a white-label B2B SaaS for boutique fitness and yoga studios, owning research, UX/UI, design system, and production code (Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Tailwind, Stripe Connect).
  • Designed and shipped booking, membership, and payments flows used by 12 studio clients and 12,000+ members, processing $10K+ USD/month via Stripe.
  • Powers 2,500 class bookings per month; cut studio onboarding from contract to live to under 5 days.
  • Built a 50+ component design system spanning booking, membership, and admin.
  • Architected platform integrations with Wellhub/Gympass (TotalPass in progress), extending studios into corporate-wellness networks.
  • Ship with an AI-native workflow, using Claude Code in daily production.
Aug 2023 — Feb 2026

Product Designer (UI/UX)

Profound Logic

  • Sole designer supporting a team of 8 engineers; led end-to-end UX/UI for enterprise web and apps, from research and flows to polished Figma interfaces.
  • Designed and shipped 50+ features with PMs and engineers, turning complex business requirements into technically feasible designs.
  • Built and maintained an 80+ component design system used across 3 products.
  • Ran 10+ usability sessions to validate flows before development.
Nov 2021 — Aug 2023

Product Designer

Ventup

  • Designed web and mobile features for restaurant-industry products with cross-functional teams, from research and wireframes to prototypes in Figma.
  • Ran 3 design sprints and 30+ rounds of usability testing to iterate features before release.
  • Created and maintained a 150+ component design system across the product.
May 2019 — Dec 2020

Front-end Developer

Lagom Startup Studio

  • Translated design mockups into responsive, pixel-perfect interfaces (HTML/CSS/JS), bridging design and engineering with clean, maintainable code.
Feb 2018 — Present

Independent Designer & Developer

Manzur Studio · Concurrent independent practice

  • Run a design-and-build practice spanning brand, UX/UI, and front-end (Rails, React, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow).
  • Delivered 30+ end-to-end web products from concept to launch.
  • Founded Ámbar Coffee (ambarcoffee.com), a specialty coffee brand with a live Shopify storefront I designed and built.
May 2015 — Feb 2018

Digital Designer

Icalia Labs

  • Product design and front-end development for client web products; one of my first roles as a designer who ships.

Education & Certifications

CEDIM

B.A. in Graphic Design & Marketing

Yoga Alliance

RYT500 Advanced Yoga Instructor Certification

Skills

Design

  • Product / UX / UI
  • Design Systems & Design Tokens
  • Interaction Design
  • Information Architecture
  • User Flows & Journey Mapping
  • Wireframing & Prototyping
  • User Research
  • Usability Testing
  • Responsive & Mobile Design

Engineering

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Hotwire
  • React
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • Tailwind
  • Stripe
  • Git

Tools

  • Figma
  • Figma MCP
  • Claude Code
  • Midjourney
  • Sketch
  • Shopify
  • Webflow
  • Squarespace
  • Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects)

Ways of working

  • AI-native workflow (Claude Code in production)
  • End-to-end ownership
  • Design-to-dev handoff
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Agile / Scrum

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (professional)
  • German (basic)