# Carola Pescio Canale

> AI Design Leadership @ Atlassian - ex. Dropbox and retired YouTube Creator

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carola

## Work Experience
### Senior Design Manager, Rovo @ Atlassian
Jan 2024 – Present | United States
I lead design for Rovo through a 20+ people team across Search, Chat, Connectors, Desktop, Mobile, Home and Graph.

### Senior Design Manager @ Dropbox
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Design Group Lead for Usability (Desktop, Mobile and Performance) responsible for multi-year strategy of native surfaces
Desktop Design expert across multiple workstreams outside of my immediate team

### Design Manager @ Dropbox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Managed 6 designers (product and content) across 3 Desktop Areas.
Doubled as an IC in supporting the CEO in defining the 3 year company strategy along with the VP of Design.
Kicked off a company-wide UX and visual refresh effort to modernize our product in the name of renewed UX simplification and clarity.

### Product Design Lead @ Dropbox
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
Lead 2 designers in delivering an ✨Organized✨ Dropbox experience for teams on our business product. Responsible for design quality, workload balancing and impact of design at the area level (3 teams). Delivered on a strategy to refocus on key organizational features for pro users.

### Product Designer @ Dropbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
Designed intelligent AI-driven experiences on our desktop products.
Led vision, strategy and design execution of a people-first experience on our new Dropbox desktop surface which heavily leveraged our ML technology.
Delivered revenue-generating wins for what ultimately improved the experience for teams on our business product.

### YouTube Creator @ YouTube
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Product Designer @ TaskRabbit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Took on consequential redesigns both on web and mobile that shaped the future of the Client experience.
Led the creation of a 1-year foundational strategy refresh for the Tasker app and drove the execution of each step in partnership with my PM counterpart.

### Product Designer @ Vertical
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California
Designed 20+ fully accessible mobile apps for the company's largest client – the US Dept. of Veteran's Affairs.

### Co-founder @ Paylance Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California

### Co-founder and Business Strategist @ Horus Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Genova, Italia


## Education
### Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Faculty of Economics
University of Genoa
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carolapc
- Portfolio: http://carolapc.com
- Portfolio: https://www.youtube.com/c/CarolaPescioCanale

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Last updated: 2026-03-25