Victor Lombardi

About

Victor Lombardi is a product manager and designer with over 30 years of experience in a broad array of companies and industries.

Since 2013 he has served as a product strategist at Cake & Arrow, a digital agency based in New York City. His passion for addressing climate change led to a collaboration from 2022 to 2025 with Climate Central, where he created dynamic maps to visualize their original science on weather attribution, illustrating where and how climate change causes heatwaves and hurricanes.

Lombardi completed undergraduate studies in journalism at Rutgers University and earned a master’s degree in music technology from New York University. He has taught courses at Rutgers University, The Parsons School of Design, and the Pratt Institute, and serves as an advisor to tech startups CarbonGuru and SuperDone.

In 2013 he wrote Why We Fail: Learning from Experience Design Failures. In 2002 he won a Webby award for work with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

His full client list spans 11 industries: Advertising, Automotive, Consulting, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Media, Non-Profit, Software, and Telecommunications:

AARP, Advertising Age, AIG, American Express, Ameriprise, Andover, Aon, Autodesk, Avaya, Avis, Boston Consulting Group, Capital One, Cigna, Cisco Systems, Citi, Climate Central, CVS, DDB Needham, Derby Bicycles, D.E. Shaw, Elsevier, Eze Software, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ford Motor Company, Fox Mobile Group, General Electric, Guardian Insurance, Happy Cog Studios, Indigo Books, Instinet, J.P. Morgan, Jesta Digital, KickStart, Management Innovation Group, Medscape, MetLife, Michelin, New York Times Digital, Nickel, Office Depot, Omomo, Oracle, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, PIMCO, Razorfish, Reuters, Rodale, Roundarch, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sharp Electronics, The Southern Poverty Law Center, Verizon, and York Industries.