# Ethan Klein

> Staff Product Design @ Adobe Firefly

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

Product designer and creative technologist with 20+ years of experience designing AI tools, interactive platforms, and hybrid digital-physical systems. I’ve led multidisciplinary teams from concept to launch, crafting intelligent, human-centered products at the edge of emerging tech. Passionate about turning complexity into clarity—and designing tools that empower people and communities.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Adobe
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Designing Adobe Firefly

### Senior Design Lead @ IDEO
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Design Lead @ IDEO
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design team lead, digital prototyping, interaction design, innovation strategy consulting,  electronics.

### Senior Software Designer @ IDEO
Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Developer @ Keas, Inc
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Worked as a full-stack developer. Ruby on Rails backend with MySQL on Heroku. Coffeescript, HAML and Compass/Sass on the frontend and Cucumber, RSpec and Jasmine as the test frameworks.

### Sr. Web Developer @ Rhapsody Music Inc
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Front-end web development. Javascript, CSS, HTML, JSP.

Worked on the next version of the Rhapsody Music web application.

Part of small team that build Rhapsody facebook application.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Sierra Club
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helped build and maintain national Sierra Club website. Helped hundreds of local Sierra Club chapters design/build/launch/maintain their own websites.

### Software Engineer @ Surfline Wavetrak, Inc.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for improving and maintaining main Surfline web application as well as design/development of snowboarding conditions web application.

### Buildmaster @ vivid studios
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000


## Education
### BA in History, Environmental Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 1993 – Jan 1997


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ethanklein

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Last updated: 2026-03-30