Victor Sahate is a C-suite Design & Creative Executive with 28 years of experience in UX, art direction, and design. 

Victor blends strategic clarity with bold creative vision, leading an award-winning team of creatives, designers, makers and technologists.

Over the past years, his leadership has been pivotal in driving the growth of startups and scaleups—earning global recognition from Fast Company, TIME, the World Economic Forum, and the Inter-American Development Bank for innovation and disruption in education.

Teachy — Brand’s visual language and proprietary design system, ensuring cohesive, playful, and professional touchpoints across the company. Embedded design into the product experience, creating intuitive, teacher-centric interfaces and scalable frameworks.

Majid Al Futtaim — The design of a new credit card series inspired by the desert as a cultural cradle and enduring symbol of Abu Dhabi’s identity. Also spearheaded the brand and design of M³, an integrated insights platform uniting all MAF businesses into a single, real-time data-driven hub.

Descomplica — Fast Company’s Most Innovative Latin America. Listed as one of the most innovative companies of the world, creating digital products and services to distribute quality education at affordable prices to everyone. 

Previously, Victor held executive roles as Creative and Design Director at Google Paris/London and as Executive Digital Creative Director at McCann Worldgroup London/Milan, where his work earned over 80 international awards, including Cannes Lions, The Webby Awards, One Show Interactive, EuroBest, Red Dot Design, and the Brazil Design Awards.

His portfolio spans industries and continents, and his work has been featured in over 40 publications, including Computer Arts, Hyper Island and HolonIQ.

Today, Victor partners with forward-thinking companies to build category-defining design systems, brand platforms, and user experiences—operating at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and creative leadership.

Google Play The World — The Webby Awards Best Navigation/Structure. Designed to connect classic films to real Google Street View places.

Faculdade Descomplica — Product and brand design for the first fully online higher education institution created by an EdTech. Its programs are built on real-world tech experience: the journey of scaling an education startup with proprietary content and platform.

Descomplica High School — The World Economic Forum’s most innovative use of tech addressing global issues. Descomplica is a leading breed of activist education brands in Brazil, offering digital-first lifelong learning programs. Recognized for its fast growth, innovative AI-powered platform, and top-rated academic quality. 

Descomplica — Early works setting up the new brand personality for the education market. The idea was to make education more connected to pop culture, more engaging for young audiences so people fall in love for learning.

Happy Finish, London — Award-winning work in the fields of virtual reality, augumented reality and artificial intelligence. A very special partnership on a topic that’s paramount for the future of technology.

Collaboration with many other brands, teams, artists and companies, helping on new ideas, sprints, product and brand design. The best work comes out of the diversity of the minds in the room. 

Awards & Recognition
1 TIME World’s Top EdTech
3 Cannes Cyber Lions
6 Brasil Design Awards
2 One Show Interactive Merit
1 FastCo. Brands That Matter
2 FastCo. Most Innovative Companies
1 The World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers
1 Red Dot Click Awards
3 Innovation By Brazil Awards
8 iBest!
4 Eurobest
3 Webby Awards
4 Creative Circle
2 Creativity Annual Awards
1 DMMA OnlineStar
11 FWAs
and 33 others

Work Published
TIME
IDB
The World Economic Forum
HolonIQ
Wired
Computer Arts
Mashable
The Telegraph
TechCrunch
The Verge
FastCo.
Buzzfeed
Design Week
Hyper Island
and 34 others

Contact
 vsahate@gmail.com
📞 +598 97 229 236