Smartwatch maker Pebble has hired some key members of the original webOS team to work on wearable devices. Itai Vonshak is joining the company as its new head of product and UX, and Liron Damir is being hired as Pebble’s new head of design.

Both are coming from LG, which licensed webOS from HP in early 2013, and they were previously in charge of design and interface for HP’s webOS efforts. They’re joined by another webOS team member: Henry Levak, who also worked on webOS for LG, recently got hired as a Product Manger by Pebble, according to his Linkedin profile.

I briefly chatted with Vonshak Monday morning, who told me that he is excited about joining a company that is open to developers:

“Both webOS and Pebble took the approach of openness, builiding a great consumer product and not locking it down.”

Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky will be speaking at…