Drew Hamlin is a seasoned product design leader with over a decade of experience shaping consumer and productivity software across startups and large tech companies, currently directing Generative AI product design at Meta in San Francisco. His career spans hands-on design, engineering, QA, and founding a mobile game studio that led to an acquisition by Salesforce, giving him a rare founder-to-exec perspective on product development. He has led design teams at Facebook/Meta, Slack, Quip, and Unity&Variety, co-created Facebook’s Origami prototyping toolkit, and taught interface design at the University of Washington. Known for blending craft-level interaction design with strong managerial instincts, he focuses on turning complex technical capabilities—now including generative AI—into humane, usable experiences.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Visual Communication Design, BFA, Visual Communication Design at University of Washington
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