Beniamino Marini
Senior product designer with a builder’s mindset
I design and ship the systems AI product teams rely on — components, patterns, and prototypes that close the gap between design and engineering. I work end-to-end, from shaping the problem to shipping the detail.
Through my work at Phrase, impacting teams at
What I do
I design and lead design systems so teams can stop arguing about implementation and focus on real product decisions.
Components, tokens, patterns, and documentation are the foundation. Prototypes, production-ready code, and tight collaboration with engineering are how it actually ships. My work supports dozens of designers and engineers across multiple product teams building AI-native features.
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I work systemically and pragmatically, combining product thinking, system governance, and hands-on technical fluency.
I prototype in code, contribute to the codebase when it helps, and work side by side with engineers to make sure systems hold up under real-world constraints. My focus spans interaction design, motion, token-based architecture, and the patterns AI features increasingly depend on.
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I have 6+ years of product design experience, including 3+ years leading a design system team in complex B2B products and last-mile delivery.
These environments are messy, fast-moving, and unforgiving. Design systems here aren’t optional — they’re the infrastructure teams rely on every day, and increasingly the foundation AI features are built on.
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Born in Italy, based in Berlin. Working across teams and time zones
Skills
- Product vision
- Rapid prototyping
- Fast iteration
- Design system
- CSS
- Storybook
- Design tokens
- Documentation
- Accessibility (A11y)
- System thinking
- Stakeholder management
- Prototyping in code
- User research
- Facilitating Workshop
- Design QA
- Data informed decision
- HTML
- Javascript (JS)
- Release strategy
- Problem framing
- Product vision
- Rapid prototyping
- Fast iteration
- Design system
- CSS
- Storybook
- Design tokens
- Documentation
- Accessibility (A11y)
- System thinking
- Stakeholder management
- Prototyping in code
- User research
- Facilitating Workshop
- Design QA
- Data informed decision
- HTML
- Javascript (JS)
- Release strategy
- Problem framing