Michael Calleia

Michael Calleia is a product management and user experience leader with a background that spans from startups to global brands. His expertise is in delivering user-centered solutions that add measurable value to a wide range of industries, including healthcare, e-commerce, mobile apps, web apps, and more. Michael is the founder of Humanist, a digital product design and strategy practice, through which he has partnered with startups, nonprofits, and global brands to bring out the best in their teams, products, and services. Michael has studied Marketing at Bryant University, Art and Design at the School of Visual Arts and Rhode Island School of Design, and Startups at Y Combinator. Additionally, he completed a Certificate program in NYU Summer Publishing Institute at New York University.

Michael's experience includes consumer and business-to-business products, mobile and web apps, SaaS, enterprise business applications, e-commerce, and content sites. Throughout his career, he has helped launch multiple products, including a Y-Combinator backed startup. His specialties are product strategy, product management, user research, user experience, business model design, Agile and Lean product design and development, team building and mentoring, participatory design, and design thinking. Michael's success in these areas is evident from his recent client reviews on Clutch.co, where he has received high praise for his work.

As a former Advisory Board member at FastFocus, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Voltari, Product and User Experience Director at SmartAsset.com, Vice President Of Product at Vook, Product Strategist / User Experience at a Full-time Independent Consultant, and Director of Custom Solutions Group (Creative Director) at IAC, Michael has built a wealth of knowledge and expertise that he brings to his current clients.