# Manuel Pelaez

> UX Designer at Amazon (Ex-Rivian)

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

Designing experiences...digital and physical.

## Work Experience
### UX Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2024 – Present | East Palo Alto, California, United States

### Adjunct Professor @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Designer @ Ongo Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer II @ Rivian
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### UX Designer @ Ongo Science Inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### ID/UX @ Qorder, Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Human Centered Industrial Designer @ Ximedica
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California

### Industrial Designer / UX @ Scanadu
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | NASA Ames Research Center Building 20, 2nd floor Moffett Field, CA 94035

### Industrial Design Intern @ Scanadu
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, Ca

### Contract Industrial Designer @ McGuire Furniture
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area

### UX/ ID Designer @ adidas Group
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Student Collaboration Project. 

A small selected group of students were given to the opportunity to design, build and present a new business vertical to the adidas group with a focus on user experience and industrial design.

### Intern Industrial Designer @ SAFETY-INXS (Shanghai Select Safety Products Co)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Shanghai City, China
+ Designed Tech Pack for Mechanics Gloves with detail and consideration to function and material choices.

+Created Pattern for manufacturing of gloves and created a new system to efficiently create patterns through adobe illustrator for production.

+ Provided Marketing with Branding, Graphic Design Layouts and Logos for business proposals.


## Education
### Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Industrial and Product Design
Academy of Art University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering
University of the Pacific

### Bear Creek High School

### Palo Alto High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13