Gian Marco Macchione — Senior Product Designer

Designing products grounded in research, clarity, and real human needs.

I'm Gian Marco — a Senior Product Designer focused on user research, service understanding, journey thinking, and product strategy. I help teams uncover the right problems, define better experiences, and validate decisions before development begins.

From user insight to better product decisions.

My process starts with understanding people — behaviours, needs, and pain points — then translates research into journeys, information architecture, interaction models, and validated product directions.

01
Discover

Understand users, context, and the real problem behind the brief.

Research, stakeholder conversations, behavioural observation, and evidence gathering — to find where users struggle and where products fail to support them.

02
Define

Turn research into journeys, flows, priorities, and experience strategy.

Insight becomes clear experience principles, user flows, service logic, and product requirements — so teams align around the right direction.

03
Validate

Test concepts early and improve the experience before build begins.

Prototypes, usability feedback, and iteration de-risk decisions and make the final product more effective from day one.

Product designer with experience across product thinking, UX structure, prototyping, stakeholder collaboration, and scalable interface systems.

Currently
BlackRock — Senior Product Designer
Based in
London, UK
Disciplines
UX research, IA, prototyping, design systems
Industries
Financial data, enterprise tools, consulting
Languages
English, Italian, Spanish
Email
[email protected]
Portrait of Gian Marco Macchione
Gian Marco / 2025

Selected experience.

A reverse-chronological overview of product design, UX, consulting, and operational experience across financial data products and enterprise tooling.

2025 — Present

Senior Product Designer
BlackRock

Internal & external tools Research IA Prototypes
  • Own and influence the design of tools used by internal and external users.
  • Design detailed wireframes, journeys, information architecture, and prototypes.
  • Ensure design is consistent with UX guidelines and approved interaction patterns.
  • Capture user needs and partner requirements through research.
  • Rapidly iterate on design ideas and validate with users.
  • Deliver wireframes, UI designs, clickable prototypes, and specs to implementation teams.
  • Collaborate with designers, researchers, PMs, and tech leads on end-to-end solutions.
2022 — 2025

Senior Product Designer
Preqin

Data products Design systems Stakeholder work
  • Turned ideas and briefs into new features and components.
  • Worked closely with product managers and developers throughout development.
  • Presented prototypes to stakeholders and gathered feedback on the user journey.
  • Analysed data to identify improvements and new features.
  • Aligned customer needs, business goals, and competitor context to improve quality.
  • Worked with the design system team to expand the pattern and component library.
  • Participated in design reviews and shared work regularly across teams.
  • Shared best practices and process improvements across the organisation.
2021 — 2022

Experience Designer
Inviqa

Consulting Research Prototypes
  • Took ownership and delivered experiences across a variety of platforms.
  • Built strong relationships with clients and internal teams.
  • Created interactive prototypes that supported user research.
  • Maintained and contributed to design systems for consistent, scalable output.
  • Planned and facilitated user research and workshops.
  • Contributed to internal best practices and skill sharing.

Words from collaborators.

People I work with often mention curiosity, determination, collaboration, and the ability to connect design decisions back to user needs and product outcomes.

I worked closely with Gian Marco and was very impressed with his determination, work ethic, and ability to reassure clients throughout the project.
Daria Lanz Experience Design Manager
He has a powerful UI eye, is very proactive, open to feedback, and brings an 'I can do it' attitude to the team.
Andres Arigon Senior Experience Designer