JACOBO MEDINA
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Strategic designer and user researcher with a background in architecture and product innovation. I help tech companies bridge user insight with product direction, through field research, design thinking, and storytelling. Experienced leading projects across the US, Japan, India, LATAM and Europe, working with product, design, and executive teams.
Clients I’ve worked for:
Google Travel
YouTube
Meta AI
Reality Labs (Meta)
Threads (Meta)
Spotify
Verizon
PayPal
GetYourGuide
Repsol
Guía Repsol CV
Employment
Senior Design Strategist
Stripe Partners
London (2022–present)
Research & innovation consultancy for major tech clients
Service and UX Designer
Repsol, UX & Design Digital HUB | A global multi-energy company
Madrid (2021-2022)
Business Design Intern
.Igeneris
Corporate Venture Builder
Madrid (2021)
Cofounder & Multidisciplinary Designer
dotts audio | tech startup
Madrid (2017-2019)
Education Master in Strategic Design and User Experience
La Nave Nodriza
Madrid (2020-2021)
Master and Bachelor in Architecture
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM-UPM)
Madrid (2013-2019)
Erasmus+ in
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe)
The Netherlands
(2017-2018)
International exchange at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Chicago, U.S.
(2016-2017)
OtherHuman-Centered Design: Prototyping
Introduction to Human-Centered Design
IDEO.org x PlusAcumen.org
(2020)
Design Thinking for Social Impact
Social-Enterprise.es
(2020)
‘Citizen Bootcamp’ Entrepreneurship Program
Deusto Business School + CitiBank
(2018)
Skills
User research (qualitative, in-home, diary studies)
Strategic design, problem framing & opportunity mapping
Research-to-product translation
Early-stage product validation & Go-to-market insight
Workshop facilitation & stakeholder alignment
Tools: Figma, Notion, Miro, Airtable, ChatGPT, Claude
Awards
Nova Talent
Global Talent Network
Member since 2020
Producto Fresco 2018 Product design award for the dotts M headphones by DIMAD (Madrid Designers Association)
LanguagesNative Spanish
Fluent English
Very basic French (voilà)