Summary
Gordon Mei is a Senior Product Design Manager with 15 years of experience shaping consumer and immersive experiences across mobile, web, and wearables. Currently leading wearables design at Meta after progressing from Staff Product Designer roles in Reality Labs and Messenger, he combines deep front-end engineering roots with product-design leadership to bridge technical feasibility and human-centered outcomes. His career spans high-growth consumer platforms—Square, BuzzFeed News, Animoto—and early frontend roles at Yahoo and Eventbrite, giving him rare fluency across design, engineering, and product teams. Gordon is adept at scaling design systems for hardware-software products and translating complex interaction problems into elegant, usable interfaces. Based in San Francisco with an engineering degree from UC Berkeley, he brings a systems-thinking approach informed by hands-on coding experience and cross-functional leadership. A subtle through-line in his work is an experimental mindset—evident from a year of freelance exploration—that fuels pragmatic innovation in large organizations.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Engineering, B.S. Engineering at University of California, Berkeley