About

As the Director of New Talent for IDEO Bay Area, Meghann focuses on bringing stellar people into the IDEO family. She believes deeply in the power of a strong community and spends her time trying to find talented, inspired, smart people to join the fold. Her favorite moments at IDEO involve collaborating with teams of people who she admires and respects.

Prior to becoming a recruiter, Meghann served as a Senior Business Designer and Project Lead. As such, she worked on projects ranging from organizational, service, and venture design to market and brand strategy. She’s tackled innovation challenges in consumer goods, education, food, health care, retail, and technology. She loves helping companies explore new markets.

Before IDEO, Meghann worked in consumer goods and entertainment as a product line manager, project manager, or marketing staffer at Casio, Harrah’s Entertainment, and Stride Rite. Prior to that, she interned for IDEO U, helping companies to develop more innovative processes themselves.

Meghann holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in interaction design from Stanford University. She currently lectures at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school).