# David Montero > Product Design Lead Emerging Tech, ex-Meta, ex-Adobe Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidmontero As a Product Designer with a background in Computer Science and Academic Research, I envision how people will interact with new and groundbreaking technologies, designing product experiences that blend the digital and physical. My goal is to find ways to make technology accessible to people and to solve daily life problems in a seamless, invisible, and magical way. Through a human-centered lens, I work with teams to identify and set a product strategy that delivers a consistent UX across different types of platforms, inspiring them to pursue forward-thinking design, pushing the boundaries of what is currently possible, building cross-team relationships and evangelizing a culture of good design practices. As an active member of the community, I take any chance to learn, share and contribute at conferences, exhibitions, and events where I take part as a speaker, artist or organizer. Skills: Human-Centered Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Wireframing, User Research, Usability Testing, Personas, User Journeys, Content Analysis and Strategy, Prototyping (HW+SW), Web, SaaS, Mobile, HMD, Interactive Installations, Emerging Technologies, Natural User Interfaces, AR/VR/MR, Internet of Things. ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Designer, Creator Scripting @ Roblox Jan 2023 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States Empowering creators with Roblox AI Assistant ### Senior Product Designer, Augmented Reality @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Burlingame, California, United States Design lead defining the spatial model for Orion XR glasses ### Sr. Experience Designer, Augmented Reality @ Adobe Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Enabling thousands of creatives to bring their creations to life with Adobe Aero ### Product Design Lead @ Blippar Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed the next generation of Augmented Reality creation and platforms tools: Blippbuilder, Blippar Dashboard, Blippar Analytics and blippar.com. Delivered a UX vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates to actualize the larger goal over time. Imparted day-to-day design leadership, fostering a shared understanding of the human-centric intersection between design, content, business, and engineering. Conducted generative research, created wireframes, mockups and prototype concepts for the Blippar App, internal content creation tools, and pitches to potential partners, clients and investors. ### UX Lead @ Layar B.V. Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Responsible for the overall UX of the product portfolio: Layar & Stiktu mobile apps and Layar Creator SaaS editor. Interaction design and content strategy for Layar.com. Led creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms and devices. ### Creative Technologist, New Media artist @ Freelance Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Sydney, Amsterdam, Madrid Using new technologies (NUIs, sensors, Open Hardware, IoT) to create compelling interactive installations. ### Interaction Engineer Intern @ Amnesia Razorfish Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Sydney, Australia Teamed up with Amnesia’s UX and Visual Designer to define the proper body gestures and UI for a wall based installation. Developed a high-fidelity prototype and created a gestures library for MS Kinect SDK and WPF. Concept applied in the Amnesia Connected Room Project and Razorfish’s Connected Retail Experience Platform. ### Senior IT Specialist @ Nokia Japan Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Tokyo, Japan Responsible from APAC R&D’s SMC, Cluster and Storage critical systems. ### IT Specialist @ Sun Microsystems Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | Madrid Area, Spain Design and implementation of eLabs: self-sustained remote Solaris labs platform within the Sun Microsystems Educational Services’ project “Telefónica Technical University” for Telefónica de España. ## Education ### Master of Arts in Interaction Design, Electronic Arts University of Sydney Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ### Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction, Empathic Agents The University of Tokyo Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 ### Master of Science in Computer Science Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Jan 1995 – Jan 2004 ### scholarship in Computer Science Delft University of Technology Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dmontero - Portfolio: http://vimeo.com/channels/230611 - Behance: http://www.behance.net/davidmontero --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidmontero JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidmontero/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30