# Ben Domanico

> Principal Product Designer • Microsoft • Outlook Experience Studio

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bendomanico

Designer, creative director, and team builder based in the Bay Area.

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | Oakland, California, United States

### Sr. Director of Design (Head of Design) @ MasterClass
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Director of Design (Head of Design) @ Patreon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Adjunct Professor, ComArts @ Otis College of Art and Design
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Co-taught Interactive Design class, ComArts department.

### Sr. Director of Design (Head of Design) @ Copper Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Bridge Fellow @ Designer Fund
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designer Fund Bridge program in Design management

### Design Advisor @ Get Lighthouse - Be the manager you always wanted
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Design Director (Head of Design) @ AppDirect
Jan 2010 – Jan 2016
Early employee and company leader who grew with AppDirect from ten SF teammates to 500 global employees.

Created and scaled cross-departmental design team (DSGN HAUS, 14 ppl).

Directed (creative & people management) teams responsible for Employee Experience, External Communications, and Product Design.

### Graphic and Interface Designer @ Freelance Design Consultant
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Accommodated the lifestyle of both being in a touring band and “finding myself” by contracting for clients such as Black & Decker, Dust Buster, and the USPS.

### Interface & Experience Designer @ fournova GmbH
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Designed the first version of Tower for Mac, the premier Git client for OS X.

### Web Designer/Producer @ idfive, LLC.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Worked collaboratively with creative and strategy specialists to design, produce, deploy, and maintain web content for a wide range of national and regional clients: College of Notre Dame, Graduate Management Admissions Council & MBA.com, Cornell University, The Epilepsy Foundation and various other healthcare, non-profit, and higher-education clients.

### Web Designer/Producer @ Weber Shandwick
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
Design and produce web content for a variety of national and global brands (coincidentally, mostly liquids): Florida Orange Juice, Colombian Coffee, McDonalds, Coors Brewing Company and got milk?

### Web Content Producer @ InPhonic
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Produced unique web marketing content in coordination with an ambitious SEO strategy.


## Education
### BA in Interactive Media
Maryland Institute College of Art


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/domanico
- Portfolio: http://www.domanico.net

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Last updated: 2026-04-13