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Jonathan Arena
Director of Design at Patreon, alum @Meta, @Cruise, @HBS, @RISD — I’m hiring!
Jonathan Arena is an accomplished design leader based in the Bay Area, currently overseeing design teams at Patreon and previously spearheading the Community Economy and Empowerment divisions at Meta.
His expertise lies in hardware and software design, people management, design operations, information architecture, visual systems, and product strategy.
Jonathan holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He is actively involved as a co-chair of RISD in Tech, a global organization for RISD alumni in the tech industry, and serves as a design advisor for various venture capital-backed startups in the Bay Area. Additionally, Jonathan contributes to the California Leadership Council for the Nature Conservancy.
Previously, he co-founded the renowned xDesign conference at Harvard, which has successfully run for 9 years.
