Portfolio · Roberto Arpon

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Strategy first,
people always.

Always open to talk Riyadh · Remote worldwide

I'm a Digital Product Designer with 8+ years of experience leading complex, regulated digital products. I combine UX research, compelling visual design, design system implementation, and AI-powered collaborative workflows to help teams build products that are more intuitive for users, faster to launch, and easier to scale.

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Riyad Bank Mobile
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Fintech & Banking Mobile Design System Management KSA

Riyad Bank
Mobile

End-to-end redesign of the Riyad Bank mobile banking app — co-leading 15 designers across squads, building a design system, and shipping a product used by millions.

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Fintech & Banking Public Web Mobile Responsive Management KSA

Riyad Bank
Public Website

A visual revamp of Riyad Bank's public website, modernising the user experience and realigning the digital presence with the bank's evolved brand identity and marketing direction.

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Energy & Mobility Education Mobile Design System Remote

Moeve
Digital Rebrand

Translating the Cepsa to Moeve rebrand across 4 digital platforms — maintaining continuity of use while introducing a new visual identity at scale.

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ROBERTO ARPON

With designing from strategy & building for people as leitmotiv, I help teams turn complex problems into scalable, high-impact digital products. My work sits at the intersection of UX, stakeholders decisions, design systems, and the day-to-day craft of leading other designers.

Over the past eight years I've worked across banking, energy, telco and retail — most recently as Lead Product Designer co-leading the Riyad Bank mobile redesign with 15 designers across squads, and adapting the Cepsa → Moeve rebrand across 4 digital platforms. Obsessive about the connective tissue between strategy and the pixel.

Based In Riyadh, KSA · Remote worldwide
Working With GCC teams & worldwide
Specialism Digital Product Design · Complex UX · Governance · Management · Design Systems
Available For Senior Designer roles · Managing · Consulting · Freelance
Languages Spanish (native) · English (fluent) · Arabic RTL (working context)
Currently Exploring AI-assisted design workflows & agentic UX

I work best at the intersection of strategy and execution — close enough to the pixel to care, experienced enough to see the system.

  • Lead from orthodoxy but also flexible in the ambiguity — defining the process when there isn't one
  • Approve components and assets created for DS with development leads and other technical teams before implementation — so design and parallel teams can work in agile parallel
  • Structure the rhythm — dailies, weeklies, sprint reviews and stakeholder check-ins to keep delivery predictable and feedback structured
  • Default to async — document as I go, treat reviews as alignment tools, not approval gates
Outside work

Away from screens I play football and padel with friends, swim to switch off, and head to the mountains whenever I can. I also play piano and guitar in a jazz group with people I've met in Riyadh — one of those unexpected things that makes living abroad feel like home. I cook when I have time and travel as often as possible, always drawn to places where food, culture and something unfamiliar overlap.

2021 → now
Digital Product Designer & Lead PRESENT
Riyad Bank via VML · The Cocktail · King eClient
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Leading product design across mobile banking, public web and design systems for Riyad Bank — including Token Junior Banking, One2 (e-wallet), and multiple internal digital tools and platforms. Alongside Riyad Bank, contributed to other VML agency clients across Middle East and Europe.

Riyad BankVMLKing eClientMoeveReal MadridDeutsche BankBank MuscatAl Rajhi Bank
2018 → 2021
Digital Product Designer
Inditex via Softtek
Madrid, Spain

E-commerce and internal platforms within Agile squads for Inditex retail brands. UX research, usability testing and cross-team collaboration. Also contributed to digital tools and products for the group's warehouse distribution and logistics operations.

ZaraInditex Group
2007 → 2017
Creative & Creative Director
Freelance
Madrid, Spain

International advertising campaigns, managing creative and production teams across countries.

STC MobileFantaFreixenetReal MadridPelayoIberia

Via agencies · McCann, JWT, Leo Burnett

FigmaFigma environment
ClaudeClaude ecosystem
SketchSketch
Adobe XDAdobe XD & Suite
ZeplinZeplin
NotionNotion
SlackSlack
JiraJira
ConfluenceConfluence
Unity 3DUnity 3D
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