# Adnan Virk

> Principal Designer · Wearable AI at Bee (Amazon) · ex Uber, Cruise, Roblox, Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adnanvirk

I am a hands-on strategic product design leader who loves incubating new ideas from 0-1 with very small teams. These days I am particularly excited about ambient AI, multi-sided ecosystems, consumer experiences and mobility. I am open to discuss founding opportunities with like-minded people. 

I also do occasional angel investing, design presentation coaching and on the personal side, love trying new creative pursuits like portrait drawings, comic book lettering, video editing, and fiction writing. Feel free to drop me a line through my website at adnanvirk.com.

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## Work Experience
### Principal Designer, Bee @ Amazon
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Exited to Amazon via Acquisition. Continuing to lead digital product and brand design for the standalone Bee ambient wearable AI product line.

### Head of Design @ Bee
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading design for a small 7-person startup building a wearable ambient personal AI that truly understands you. I do end-to-end product design and a bit of everything else, including packaging, animations, prototyping, directing creative contractors and maintaining the brand.

### Staff Designer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Principal Product Designer / Manager @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Supported a team of 3 Designers as (player-coach) manager, drove hands-on Northstar visions.

### Staff Product Designer @ Cruise
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
As an area of primary focus, I designed the in-car experience for Cruise's very first AI driven autonomous rides in San Francisco. I also drove design for go-to-market customer journey visions, redesigned several fleet automation products, made contributions to the mobile ride request app and worked on new vehicle special projects.

### Senior Product Designer @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Hands-on end-to-end design for individual product features across both Driver and Rider apps as well as broader design studio collaboration projects (e.g. holistic cross-team driver user journeys, narrative visions, etc). Areas of focus included core driver trip experience, driver-rider connection features, rider-to-driver growth and others.

### UX / UI Designer @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA
Google Express: Consumer shopping feature UI & UX design for Google’s experimental same-day local store shopping and delivery service (Paid Memberships, Substitutions, Mobile Browsing and others).

Display & Search Ad Formats: Holistic design for systems of ad formats across millions of external websites, google search and mobile apps, in an environment where every tiny design decision moves hundreds of millions of dollars. 

20% Side Projects: Android Wear Gmail 'micro-app' design (2015 - not publicly launched), UX Design for new internal Ads Review policy enforcement product (2013-14), UX Design for a new mobile web Ads Preferences Manager interface (2013)

### Visual Designer @ Blue Shield of California
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA
Primary Visual Designer on the eBusiness User Experience (UX) team, defining and applying a consistent design language across blueshieldca.com online products and tools, first mobile website and mobile app pilot programs.

### Media Designer @ Monster
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco, CA

### Interactive Marketing Designer @ ConnectEDU
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Boston, MA

### Associate Media Producer @ Houghton Mifflin Company
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | Boston, MA

### QA & Documentation Specialist @ CambridgeDocs
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Cambridge, MA

### Comic Book Letterer @ Unknown
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Freelance comic book lettering - working with independent comic book writers, artists, and publishers. Titles included: Leesway #1, Reflux #4, Andromeda Jones, Project: Noah's Ark, Nathaniel Demon, and others.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Communications (Electronic Media / Video Editing)
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Jan 2000 – Jan 2004


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adnanvirk
- Portfolio: https://www.adnanvirk.com
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/adnanvirk

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Last updated: 2026-03-30