# Andrea Mangini > VP Design - ex Shopify, ex Netflix. Doing my own thing for a bit. Recharging, building, learning. Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andreamangini ## Work Experience ### Designer @ Unknown Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Cruz County, California, United States Taking a sabbatical to invest in some personal projects. Getting back to my roots, making stuff, getting playful. ### Vice President of Design @ Shopify Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | California, United States It is my honor to be overseeing the UX & Creative Design Practices for Shopify, where we are applying design and technology to improve commerce for everyone! I directly oversee design functions across Merchant Services, Shop and Growth, and also support the overall UX & Creative disciplines across the company. ### Director Of Product Design @ Netflix Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area I serve as Director of Product Design for Studio Innovation at Netflix. In this role I have the privilege to grow and nurture a world-class design team, who focus on building all of the tooling and that power the content programming, production and promotion processes. ### VP of Design @ Symphony - Secure Seamless Communication Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 As VP of Design for Symphony I had the unique opportunity to own design strategy and execution across all brand and product touch points for a young and rapidly growing platform. ### Head of User Experience @ Autodesk Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 I served Autodesk's Cloud Platform division as Head of User Experience. In this role I directly led a large, global team of talented designers, researchers, writers, and developers who were creating the core experience platform for our Autodesk 360 / Fusion 360 Cloud & Mobile products and platform. ### Sr. Principal User Experience Designer @ Autodesk Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 In this role I acted as strategic design lead for a variety of UX initiatives spanning Suites, Web Services, and Mobile applications. Also in this role I led development of the Human Interface Guidelines for Autodesk's Mobile and Cloud initiatives. ### Senior Experience Design Lead @ Adobe Systems Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 As Senior Experience Lead for Adobe's Creative Suites & Services, I led experience design and research strategy across an ecosystem of desktop products and web services. In this role I supported new product development from initial conception though full implementation, and contributed heavily to product definition and requirements. I worked to align teams, designers, market requirements, brand guidelines, and technologies around cross-product, multi-screen workflows, user-centric design principles, and a unified Adobe experience model. ### Practice Lead for Sustainable Design / Green Team Leader @ Adobe Systems Inc. Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 I am passionate about promoting sustainable design and innovation, both on behalf of my employers and my customers. in 2007 I co-founded of Adobe’s employee “Green Team”, and later served as Practice Lead for Sustainable Design advising Adobe’s Corporate Social Responsibility and council for Product Use and Innovation. I would regularly write, speak, and engage with Adobe's customer community around Sustainability and CSR topics and helped Adobe become an acknowledged thought-leader in advancing sustainability for our employee and customer populations. With over 10 years immersed in Sustainability and Sustainable Design scholarship, trends, and frameworks - I remain deeply networked within CSR and Sustainability communities. I was a regular contributor to Adobe XD's publication, "Inspire", on topics of Design & Sustainability. https://xd.adobe.com/#/search/library/Andrea ### Sr. Experience Designer - Adobe Acrobat @ Adobe Systems Inc. Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 Redesigned the Adobe Acrobat user experience, helping to eliminate top customer support call drivers, increasing usability, reducing training costs, and driving increased revenue for 3 successive product releases. ### Product Designer @ Adobe Systems Inc. Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 Led Product Design and User Research for Adobe's eBook Initiative, User Experience Designer for Adobe ActiveShare 2.0 ### Quality Engineering Manager - Consumer & Hobbyist Imaging Products @ Adobe Systems Inc. Jan 1997 – Jan 2000 Responsible for management of quality engineering and localization teams for Adobe's Consumer & Hobbyist Imaging Products, including Adobe Photodeluxe 3.0, 4.0 and Adobe ActiveShare 1.0. ### Quality Engineer @ Adobe Systems Inc. Jan 1995 – Jan 1997 ## Education ### Fellow in Design Management / Business Strategy / Sustainable Design California College of the Arts ### Bachelor's degree in Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz ### Bachelor of Arts in Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andreamangini - Portfolio: http://www.a360.autodesk.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/andreamangini JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andreamangini/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13