# Marco Paglia > Co-President at Musixmatch | Product, Design and Engineering | Ex-Google and Uber Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/marcopaglia My curriculum covers the whole user experience spectrum, with a particular focus on user interfaces, mobile and web services. I’m experienced in leading and coordinating the whole design process from beginning to end, which includes user research, concept and strategic design, prototyping and implementation. Working on projects that involve multi-disciplinary teams from different sides of the company have made me learn how to see product development and design from an holistic perspective, keeping in consideration desirability, feasibility and viability. Throughout my career I have developed significant people skills, which I have learned through project leadership and team management and which have shaped me as a good and altruistic team player. ## Work Experience ### Co-President @ Musixmatch Jan 2024 – Present Product, Design and Engineering ### Chief Product & Content Officer @ Musixmatch Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy ### Director, Product Design @ Uber Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States I started and headed a new practice for Uber: Design Platform. During this time my team created and led adoption of Uber's first global design system - named Base - and implemented key tools that help streamlining the design process. ### Area 120 Entrepreneur, Founding Member @ Google Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States I co-founded and headed Uptime, a new group video chat app from Google for watching videos together. I lead the team and the project, and I was directly responsible for its product strategy and user experience, wearing the CEO hat for this product. ### Pilot, Head of Studio @ YouTube Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Bruno, California, United States Co-founded a new internal experience incubator inside YouTube, called Pilot Studio: a workspace where people across disciplines work together to pilot new ideas. This is a team of designers and engineers, which I led and managed. Some of its outcomes are: - Motion Stills: released on June 7th '16. - YouTube Mobile Live: announced at VidCon on June 23rd '16. ### Google Play, Head of UX @ Google Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California, United States Founded and led the Google Play design team, where I have been the head of design and manager for this group for over 3 years. I helped growing the business 12x, scaling the team to over 30 super-talented individuals, and redesigning every aspect of the suite of Play applications on Android, iOS and web. During this time I've also been the manager and design lead for the Core Android Apps UX team, which includes experiences such as Google Camera, Google Keep and Google Fit. ### Senior-Staff designer @ Google Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, California, United States I joined the Android Design team and worked on shaping the platform releases that brought this platform to a consumer friendly user experience, starting from Ice Cream Sandwich and ending with Material Design. ### UX Design Specialist | San Francisco @ Nokia Design Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, California, United States I was transferred to the San Francisco office. I worked in Nokia as User Experience Designer with the Advanced Design team, focusing on designing for the next disruptive products and services that Nokia would have pursued in the incoming 2-3 years. Most of this work is still confidential. ### Senior user experience designer | London @ Nokia Design Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | London, United Kingdom Employed by Nokia Design, London, as User Experience Designer working with the Service, User Interface Design division. ### Design Architect @ RMG Connect Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Milan, Lombardy, Italy I've designed the information and the interactive models for websites and games online. ### Consultant @ Butera e Partners Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Milan, Lombardy, Italy I've been working on CRM design and usability analysis. ### Lead Teacher @ IED Istituto Europeo di Design Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Milan Area, Italy I taught and led the program at the Multimedia Project lab, 2nd year students. ### Design Analyst @ frog Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Milan Area, Italy I worked as freelance in medical product's design. Worked on the design and prototyped the user interface of the Lifescan’s Ultravue glucose meter. ### User Experience Designer Consultant @ LG Electronics Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 I've been designing together with Comalab the user interface for the LG mp3 reader named FM37. The innovative gesture-based Touchscreen UI won a Reddot Design Award in 2007. ### User Experience Design Consultant @ Comalab Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 I've designed the User Experience for the FM37 mp3 reader for LG. ### Interaction Designer @ Siemens VDO Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 I designed the model and architecture for a graphic user interface for the automotive market. The goal was to integrate driving info, multimedia, navagation and communication. ### Product Designer @ NextMedia Lab Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Designer and PM in the Business development team. I explored innovative solutions to rich media and advertising. ### Visiting Student @ Cadre - Online Learning and Knowledge Sharing Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 I've worked on the interaction design and prototyping of many of the tests for an Interactive Physiology training. ## Education ### Graduated Cum Laude in Communication Design in Industrial Design Politecnico di Milano ### Interaction Design QUT (Queensland University of Technology) ### Growth & Retention Series Reforge ### HIgh School in Humanities/Humanistic Studies Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marcopaglia --- Source: https://flows.cv/marcopaglia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/marcopaglia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13