Xande Macedo🇺🇸
Product Design Director at Odopod, AKQA, Rockmelt, Apple, Airbnb, Splunk, Meta, Neon
About Xande Macedo
Product Design Director at Odopod, AKQA, Rockmelt, Apple, Airbnb, Splunk, Meta, Neon
Based in Sausalito, CA, I hailed from Brazil over 20 years ago. I started my career as a Graphic Design back in my hometown, until I moved to the United States with a dream. I feel grateful for all the opportunities I had and everything I was able to accomplish was beyond my wildest dreams.
Ultimately I want to open doors to others that once were closed to me, and support other dreamers and doers out there. I've worked on some amazing places with incredible people, led small and large teams on companies that are starting out as well as massive established ones. Helped build things for a few and for billions.
If I can share some of what I learned (and continue to lear with you) hit me up. I speak fluently English and Portuguese. I can speak Italian with 100% confidence and 30% sill. 😅
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What mentees say
“Amazing conversation with Xande. We talked about career and the skills needed to become a good designer. Being someone who comes from the same place as me and has reached incredible jobs is a professional inspiration.”
“It was an amazing session with Xande. I highly recommend him—he has extensive experience in design and is such a positive, open person!”
“Xande was very comfortable to interact and was humble to have a unstructured chat. I had discussion over general perspectives to consider as a designer and learned how to set my next milestones in my design journey, I am going back home with some self introspection today based on the questions that Xande raised.”