Richard Caballero is a Group Product Design Manager at Esri, where he leads design across ArcGIS product areas spanning professional GIS, indoors, enterprise management, graph data, and intelligence. His work connects design, engineering, and product strategy across web, desktop, and mobile products.
Richard's academic background bridges human cognition and computational systems. He earned a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from UC San Diego in 2010, and later completed an M.S. in Data Science and GIS from Claremont Graduate University in 2023, where he was awarded the Esri Fellowship.
His current focus includes scaling design leadership across ArcGIS products, integrating AI into professional GIS workflows, advancing cross-platform design systems, and shaping graph and intelligence experiences through strong product and engineering alignment.