# Mar Jacobo > Manager, Fruit @ Apple Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mar ## Work Experience ### AI Safety @ Apple Jan 2024 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States ### Data Product Operations @ Apple Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Product Lead @ Findigs, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Head Of Design @ Scale AI Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Lead Product Manager - New Products @ Scale AI Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Initially joined Scale to help explore potential new product opportunities within AV space and launched 2 successful products - Nucleus and Scale Mapping. Lead both products through initial customer engagement and pilots and focused solely on Mapping since June 2020. Worked with multiple customers to streamline their maps from technical and operational perspective and reconcile requirements into a scalable annotation product. Partnered with the operations team to build training, validation processes and tools to deliver high quality data consistently. Extended product capabilities beyond self-driving and developed a roadmap for map updates and continuous data validation. ### Product Lead - Software @ Luminar Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California Took Luminar’s software from research prototype to product launch and automotive partnerships. Lead go to market strategy and consolidated multiple OEM’s requirements into a streamlined product feature set. Set up validation and review processes internally and with customer engineering teams, managed multiple concurrent pilots and tackled scaling across a variety of organizations and use cases. ### Head of Product @ Cruise Automation Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Set the consumer product strategy, working with Cruise and GM leadership and investors. Partnered closely with engineering teams to develop feasible consumer product roadmaps that leverage available technology to the fullest potential. Grew the product org to 20+ people across product, design and engineering focused on consumer UX, remote assistance and mapping. ### Sr. Technical Program Manager @ Cruise Automation Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Helped the engineering team manage their process through the period of rapid growth. Worked cross-functionally with validation, data, planning, and controls teams to align on priorities, establish key metrics and execute towards technical milestones. Supported perception’s team data and annotation needs, by building data collection, management and evaluation processes and tools. ### Product Design Lead @ Cruise Automation Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area As the first product hire, worked closely with the founding team, helping the company through Series A and subsequent GM acquisition. Established Cruise’s public brand, defined product roadmaps for on-road validation, city partnerships and consumer testing, designed and implemented in car and consumer UI. ### Senior Designer @ CBA Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked on brand design, communication and marketing strategy for a diverse portfolio of international consumer brands in food, healthcare and beauty industry Created holistic brand strategies for new players on the market, tackling every aspect of brand positioning - from logo and identity, to packaging, communication, advertising and user experience ### Product Design Consultant @ Self Employed Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | London, UK - San Francisco, US Worked with a variety of domestic and international clients as an independent consultant specializing in user experience, interaction and web design as well as brand strategy and communication. ### Junior Product Designer @ Nokia Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Developed branding, packaging, product features and user experience as a part of Accessories design team. ## Education ### Master's degree in Design Engineering Imperial College London Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Industrial and Product Design Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mar-jacobo-18231431 --- Source: https://flows.cv/mar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25