Tom Karlo
Product Leadership in London
Tom Karlo
Product Leadership in London
I'm a product leader based in London with over a decade of experience building consumer technology at the intersection of platforms, AI, and emerging hardware.
Most recently, I led the team at Meta Reality Labs that launched the Meta Wearables Device Access Toolkit (MWDAT) — Meta's first public developer platform for AI glasses, featured in the CTO's keynote at Connect 2025. I lead a London-based team of product managers and engineers building the developer ecosystem for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and future AR devices.
Before Meta, I built YouTube's creator commerce platform from $1M to $40M in annualised sales in under two years, reaching 60,000+ creators across 18 countries — a programme highlighted by CEO Sundar Pichai on Google's Q3 2020 earnings call. Before that, I spent six years as senior product manager for Android System UI, shaping the core experience of an operating system used by over 2 billion people. I'm a named inventor on three US patents from that work.
Earlier in my career, I launched EU payment methods at Stripe, led product for IMDb Pro at Amazon, and spent four years as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, where I originated over $2B in private market transactions.
I started as an engineer (MIT, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) and have an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MS in Journalism from Columbia. I'm at my best on products that are technically ambitious but need to be genuinely easy to use.
Speaking
I've presented at VidCon LA and London, the Android OEM Partner Summit (keynote, 600+ attendees), Meta Connect, and as part of Meta's executive engagement programme with C-suite visitors from major European organisations.
Dual British/US citizen — no visa or sponsorship required.