Summary
Dave Vronay is a seasoned UX leader and advisor with over three decades spanning academia, startups, and large tech organizations. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings deep experience in China’s mobile software and interaction design markets and has held innovation-focused roles at Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. He has led and founded multiple companies, including Advanced UX and eweware, steering product strategy, design systems, and privacy-centric social experiences like Heard. Most recently, he is Advisor, User Experience at Bellator AI and is Senior UX Manager at Zoom, where he shapes conversational interfaces, contact center UX, and scalable design systems across products. His career also includes executive design execution at JPMorgan Chase, VP of Product at DeviantArt, and UX architecture work at Riot Games and Facebook, centered on data tools, healthcare, analytics, and enterprise software. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Cinema from USC and combines rigorous research, storytelling, rapid prototyping, and cross-cultural leadership to turn complex requirements into usable, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience