Paolo is a user experience designer and educator with over 20 years of experience delivering products & services across entertainment, automotive, gaming, consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, social, and mobile. He is currently a Design Director at Netflix where he leads the product design teams responsible for global user acquisition, TV, and website user experiences for the world's leading Internet TV brand which has over 75 million members in over 60 countries. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley campus where he teaches graduate level courses in HCI & UX within the Integrated Innovation Institute. In the past he has held the positions of VP of Advanced UX Design at Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, Director of Product Management at Zynga, Executive Producer for Microsoft's Pioneer Studios, Design Manager at Microsoft's Xbox division, game designer at Microsoft Games Studios, and UI designer positions at Microsoft's SQL Server, Oracle, and IBM.