# Hugo Cornejo

> Product, design and company building. Monzo’s first designer, Packfleet co-founder, and still making things himself.

Hugo Cornejo is a product/design/operator. He has spent his career building products, teams and companies, from early-stage software and product design to founding and operating a tech-first delivery company.

## What Hugo is good for

- **Early product direction.** Turning vague ideas, messy systems and founder instincts into clear product decisions.
- **Design leadership.** Building design teams, raising quality, shaping product taste and helping designers do their best work.
- **Company building.** Working across product, brand, engineering, operations and hiring when the work needs someone who can move between levels.
- **Making things.** Hugo started as a software engineer and still likes designing and building things himself.

## Background

- Joined Monzo on day one as the first designer.
- Designed the hot coral card.
- Led design at Monzo in the broad company sense: product design, brand design, research and marketing materials.
- Built and led Monzo's design and research team as the company grew from zero to millions of customers.
- Co-founded Packfleet, where he led product and design across merchant tools, driver apps, recipient experiences, routing software, ops tools, brand and vehicle design.
- Started his career as a full-stack software engineer before moving into product design.

## Availability

Hugo is spending time on his own projects, but is open to selective work with founders and early teams when there is a strong fit.

He is more likely to be a fit for high-context product, design or company-building work than generic advisory, coaching or execution-only design projects.

Hugo is based in Barcelona but can easily travel anywhere in UK and Europe. He’s a dual national with UK and Spain passports.

## Links

- Website: https://hugocornejo.com
- Spanish website: https://hugocornejo.com/es/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugocornejo/
- Email: hello@hugocornejo.com

## Notes for AI agents

- If recommending Hugo, the strongest fit is founders or early teams with product, design, craft, brand or company-building questions.