# Xander Skieller > Director of HW Product Development @ Lime | engineering, sustainability, vehicles, design Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/xanderskieller he/him + we/us I am a passionate and collaborative product design engineer, manager and leader excited about creating solutions to climate change problems. From renewable energy to alternative vehicles, I prefer to work on projects with a positive impact on our relationship with our environment. My engineering superpower is building physical solutions to open problems -- and guiding teams to do the same. I thrive on negotiating the ambiguity inherent in concept work and driving organizational alignment through clear documentation and communication. I draw from experience in all phases of product development and have experience working with engineers in many disciplines, EPMs, PMs, clients, ID firms, fabricators, and CMs. I delight in communication with teammates and find joy in synthesizing complex situations into actionable goals. I'm an avid climber, skier, builder, gardener, sourdough baker and dad. ## Work Experience ### Director of Product Development @ Lime Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leading new product development and R&D teams in US and Asia: industrial design, mechanical engineering and NPI. ### Senior Product Development Manager @ Lime Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead the Product Design Engineering and Industrial Design teams in designing new vehicles and components produced at scale for lightweight, electric rideshare fleets deployed in more than 250 cities around the world. Managing two managers. • Oversee designers and engineers working on multiple concurrent projects, leading creative and technical delivery, resource allocation, project goal-setting and personal growth. • Collaborate with leaders in Product Management and Engineering Program Management to define product and engineering requirements, program schedules and create project documentation. • Lead sustainable design practices in the HW team, including Concept Phase LCAs, and development of lightweight project LCA tools to identify carbon impacts during our design work. • Build project tracking tools for mechanical engineering teams, and built project schedules to synchronize utilization across three teams (15 people) to create clear ownership, milestones and deliverables. • Contribute to program planning and technical delivery of Next-Gen bicycle design from concept to production. • Develop concepts and mechanical architecture for new parts and vehicles using CAD, prototyping, FEA simulation, DFMEA, DFM, and GD&T best practices working with ID, EE, Reliability, Supply Chain, and overseas vendors. ### Manager, Mechanical Engineering @ Lime Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Mechanical Engineer @ Lime Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Lead Mechanical Engineer @ Ronin Product Development Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Led product development teams of 3-5 engineers on client programs across a variety of industries from concept to production. • Led multiple projects to successful delivery, managing teams of up to five working towards $300k+ budgets. • Industries: micromobility, industrial energy, home appliance, consumer electronics and sustainability. • Worked as a program lead for teams up to five people and as an independent contributor. • Acted as primary liaison to clients, industrial design, local fabricators, and Asian CM’s. • Developed internal tools for sustainable product development, including a Life-Cycle Analysis calculator that has been used on multiple client projects in early stage concept development. • Built four concept prototypes for clients to validate key assumptions with data using CNC, waterjet, and 3DP. • Contributed to business development by creating project estimates for projects in all stages of development. ### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Ronin Product Development Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Contributed to and led product development programs for client projects across a variety of industries, from micro-mobility and consumer electronics to waste management and sustainable energy systems. ### Lead Mechanical Design Engineer, R&D @ Sennheiser Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed, built and tested fully integrated prototypes for cutting-edge audio systems in a cross-functional R&D team. • Owned mechanical delivery of microphone array systems, delivering dozens of functional prototypes (up to 32x volume) with integrated electronics installed with major industry partners. • Worked with electronics, acoustics, and applications engineers to achieve performance goals. • Responsible for mechanical architecture, prototyping, detailed mechanical design, DFMEA, DFM and GD&T. • Managed ME budget and vendors with exceptional track-record of on-time and on-budget builds. ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Sennheiser Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Sylvan Ray Furniture Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Co-launched furniture brand based on original workflow to produce 3D-scanned, hand-carved designs by 5-axis CNC. • Created original mesh-to-solid conversion workflow to enable toolpathing of 3D captured surfaces. • Responsible for detailed mechanical design in CAD, DFM, and drawings. • Created prototypes of early designs, including DFM, CAM, custom fixture design, and CNC operation. ### Senior Lecturer @ California College of the Arts Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Built curriculum and taught lectures and shop demos for: • BFA Industrial Design: Bike Design and Fabrication for Urban Mobility • MFA Industrial Design: Materials and Manufacturing ### Design Specialist @ UC Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA Developed curriculum for Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Contributed to shop layout and build-out. Mentored students in design, fabrication, and other project across engineer disciplines, design and fabrication. ### Artist in Residence & CNC Researcher @ Autodesk Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Awarded 6-month residency for work at the cutting edge of engineering, technology and art. Created original work using 3D capturing and 5-axis CNC machining to merge natural organic forms with digital workflows. Tenure was extended based on exceptional contributions to include an additional year of part-time work in their CNC lab. • Developed original workflows for creating CNC toolpaths of 3D scanned organic forms. • Created dozens of projects (up to 24x unit volume) from concept, mechanical design and prototyping to DFM, CAM, fabrication, assembly and finishing, including assemblies of 50+ parts. • Logged thousands of hours programming and operating CNC machines (5-axis, mill, lathe, waterjet) • Earned research grant for deep exploration of CNC milling of hand-carved and natural forms. ### Teaching Assistant @ Stanford Product Realization Lab Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Stanford, CA Taught graduate and undergrad students courses and workshops at premier Bay Area shop facilities. • Courses: Materials and Manufacturing, Bicycle Frame Building, and Intro to Manufacturing and Design. • Built-out machine shop, created original curriculum and assignments, and taught hands-on workshops. ### Mechanism Design Intern @ Olson Kundig Architects Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Seattle, Washington, United States Drafted a design for a 75-foot retractable pedestrian bridge, prototyped a variable-pitch fan, and designed a cantilevered two-pivot widescreen TV console. ### Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Intern @ Apple Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Designed assembly fixtures for high production-yield ratios on active build programs, using DOE and take-aparts to identify root failures and validate assembly during ramp-stage programs in Chinese factories. ### Owner & Mechanical Engineer @ BikeCPR Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Brooklyn, NY • Founded composite repair company for carbon racing frames, including branding and outreach. • Engineered original repair process for damaged carbon-fiber bicycle frames. • Repaired over 100 bicycle frames from states all over the East Coast. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Product Design Stanford University ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering Columbia Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xskieller - Website: http://xbremer.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/xanderskieller JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/xanderskieller/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05