Summary
Ethan Klein is a Staff Product Designer in San Francisco with 14 years of hands-on experience designing AI tools, interactive platforms, and hybrid digital-physical systems. Currently shaping Adobe Firefly, he has a track record of leading multidisciplinary teams from concept to launch at IDEO and beyond, blending product design, interaction prototyping, and electronics. He started his career as a software engineer and full‑stack developer, giving him practical fluency across front-end, back-end, and testing stacks that informs pragmatic design decisions. Ethan excels at turning complex technical and social constraints into clear, human-centered experiences that empower communities. He pairs deep creative-technology instincts with a liberal-arts background in History and Environmental Studies, which surfaces in thoughtful, systems-aware product work. Colleagues describe him as a designer who ships tangible prototypes quickly while keeping long-term product strategy in view.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA History Environmental Studies, BA History Environmental Studies at University of Pennsylvania