Jose Florido

Jose Florido has a long history of work experience in the design industry. Jose began their career in 2002 as the Founder, Project Manager, and Interaction Designer for ávidos. In 2004, they worked as a Designer and Community Manager for loquo.com, a popular 'Craigslist clone' in Spain. In 2006, they Co-founded and served as a User Experience Designer for Panoramio. From 2007 to 2011, they worked as a UX Designer for Google, where they led the Panoramio product vision and user experience and was an Interaction Designer for Google Maps, Google Groups and other projects. In 2011, they worked as an Interaction Designer for Niantic, Inc. From 2020 to 2021, they were a Product Design Manager for Flexport and Facebook. Currently, they are the Director of Product Design at Spotify.

Jose Florido attended The Open University from 2008 to 2011, where they earned a BSc in Computing and Design. In 2010, they took a course in Design at Stanford University through the Liberal Arts & Science Continuing Studies program. From 1999 to 2004, they studied Economics at Universidad de Málaga. In December 2019, they obtained a Management Foundations certification from LinkedIn.