Alvar Arranz
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Timeline 8 chapters · 2003 → now

Scroll to unspool 23 years.

A line in Burgos in 2003, still being drawn in San Diego today. Same instinct the whole way down: build the part that's missing.

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Nov 2003 — Feb 2008 · Burgos · where it starts

CSA

Full Stack Develigner
  • Introduced CSS into the dev process — ahead of adoption in Spain
  • Introduced SEO best practices by shifting to semantic code and more search-friendly site structures
  • Brought the first web-accessibility concepts to the team
  • Learned ASP.NET, SQL, and functional database design
  • Galletas Gullón — first Flash site with a CMS behind it
  • Clients: Campofrío, Interdin Bolsa, Caja de Burgos, Maxxium, Ferroli
Feb 2008 — Feb 2010 · Burgos

Softeca Internet

Web designer
  • Won a competitive tender to build the official City of Burgos website
  • Deepened my design craft across visual design, interaction, and front-end execution
  • Built a marketplace for car wheels — early e-commerce
  • Clients: Lausan, SAAT, Tomás Bodero
Jun 2009 — Oct 2012 · Burgos

Burgos CF

Brand communications manager — fulfilling the passion
  • 2011–12 kit design — most sold kit in club history at the time
  • Built the club website; launched its Facebook & Twitter
  • Live-tweeted matches in real time — in 2011
  • Season-ticket campaigns, matchday publication, press & fan media
Jul 2010 — Jul 2013 · Burgos

Freelance

Full stack of one — design, dev, SEO, CMS, databases
  • Bodegas Estefanía, Frias Alimentación, DemandaFolk, Radio Arlanzón
  • Among the first in the region building fully responsive sites, 2010–13
  • Experimented with static content publishing — shipped it on Radio Arlanzón
Aug 2013 — Jan 2014 · Madrid

Redbility

Front-End Designer at a great Madrid design agency
  • Carrera y Carrera — luxury jewelry
  • Nestlé Portugal — e-commerce
  • Aernnova — aeronautics
Jan 2014 — Mar 2017 · Madrid, Spain — San Diego, CA

PetCoach

Sole Product Designer — grew the platform from 0 to 1
  • DreamIt incubator — lived 3 months in Austin, TX
  • Grew the platform from 0 to 1M+ users
  • End-to-end ownership: research, prototype, implementation
  • Tuned front-end performance alongside the CTO
  • Acquired by Petco, 2017Exit
  • Evolved PetCoach into e-commerce — shelved to avoid competing with petco.com
  • Opened the first PetCoach store — digital / physical integration
Mar 2017 — Feb 2024 · San Diego

Petco

Product Designer → Senior Product Designer
  • Swift — hospital management system, 288 hospitalsShipped
  • VetPoint — two-sided shift-bidding marketplaceShipped
  • Vet Online Booking (VOB) — consumer appointment routingShipped
  • PetPass — pop-up clinic staff softwareShipped
  • Petco Insurance — Nationwide integrationShipped
  • Vital Care in POSShipped
  • Set up the team's Figma file structure, design principles & rituals
  • Created the Product Designer career ladder
Feb 2024 — Present · San Diego

Tractor Supply

Senior UX Designer — Design system, category, personalization
  • Category expansion component library
  • Design system — file structure, naming, foundations, patterns, icons, and illustrationsFoundations
  • Buy It AgainShipped
  • Personalized homepage by segmentIn development
  • Simplified homepage — measured lift in engagementShipped
  • AI-powered conversational searchVision
  • Personalized spaces from purchase behaviorVision
  • Discovery journeys for parallel categoriesVision