Kamyar Keshmiri

Kam is a product innovation leader with 25 years experience guiding organizations to bring to market intelligent products, platforms and services. He is passionate about humanizing technology by taking a systems view and striving for deep human insight, building and leading multi-disciplinary teams to do career defining work and harnessing a designer’s toolset to bring form to the future – deriving strategic advantage through design.

Kam currently serves as the VP and head of Design and Research at Amazon Prime Video, overseeing a centralized Design function that is responsible for every aspect of the consumer app experience globally, enterprise platforms for the multi-sided marketplace as well as genAI tools and technology for creative makers. Previously he was the Senior Vice President, Product Design for the Direct-To-Consumer team at Warner Bros. Discovery where he led a team of 130 designers across North America and Europe, overseeing the rapid ascent of HBO Max across every country and language, while defining the long-term strategic vision for future consumer streaming products. He strives to create immersive, engaging experiences that accelerate emotional connection between viewers and iconic programming, while building long term relationship value between customers and brands.

Prior to moving to LA, Kam spent 7 years as a senior leader at IDEO in the Bay, where he had the privilege to work closely with his clients to translate business ambition into strategic innovation programs, holding the vision while overseeing the detailed execution of associated work streams for clients including DirecTV (AT&T), Meta, News UK, Adobe, Daimler and Logitech. He is a Central Saint Martins graduate who founded and led the London based design agency FriendsOfOurs at the tender age of 22.