Joelson Leal

Product Designer · Head of Design at hello.cv

I design products where AI agents act on people's behalf: careers, identity, and money. Right now I'm building the agentic profile at hello.cv. Before that I helped run .cv, Cabo Verde's national top-level domain, as VP of Product Operations at ola.cv, and published research at CHI 2026 on trust in banking identity verification.

Tarrafal → London → Parishello@joelson.cv · Resumé
Now

hello.cv

HEAD OF DESIGN · 2023–NOW

An AI-native career platform where your profile works for you: an agent that finds opportunities, applies, and escalates only when it needs you. I lead design across the product, from agentic onboarding to Job Finder 2.0 to the Feed and Inbox architecture that separates the agent's work surface from human decisions. I work daily with engineers, shipping in production, not in decks.

Kriolish

FOUNDER · SIDE PROJECT

A crowdsourced translation and learning platform for Cabo Verdean Creole, building digital infrastructure for a language that never had one. More on the about page →

Selected work

hello.cv: agentic onboarding

Head of Design

Your job search, delegated. How I designed the onboarding that makes people trust an AI agent with their career.

Recognition

Chevening Scholar, UK FCDO (2024) · CHI 2026, ACM · UX Design Awards Berlin, New Talent nominee (2025) · ACM Interaction Design & Children, R&D Challenge (2025)