Hi, I'm Cesar — a leader who helps build companies where design is a strategic advantage.
A consistent theme across my career: using brand and product design together to make the future legible, then building the momentum that carries teams toward it.
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At Stensul, I led an international team of seven through a brand refresh and enterprise product vision to elevate product quality for the marketing orgs of some of the world's largest enterprises.
At Brex, I used product, research, and design to align Sales, Credit, and Underwriting teams to redesign how upmarket clients applied and were approved for enterprise credit — reducing application times from 12 business days to three.
At Studiohouse, I co-founded a fractional brand+product design studio in NYC, creative directed work for Snap, Glossier, WorkOS, and more, and drove the acquisition of our team by our final client, Brex.
At Sidecar, I built a design function to navigate a new consumer product category with no playbook, and used brand and product to build trust way before the driver ever showed up.
I'm currently seeking a company where the brand and product design mandate is real — whether that means building the function or scaling one that's already started — close enough to the work that strategic decisions are grounded in pixels.
—I'm drawn to partnering with considerate peers and leaders whose curiosity doesn't stop at the "easy answer" — and after nearly two decades in companies of varying stages, I thrive in cultures where deliberate development sharpens the business, the work, and the people doing it.
New York City is home now, but I'm originally from Texas and have lived in Austin and San Francisco.