Shopping on Google Search

• Bringing the best commercial experiences to billions of users in the world on Google Search, leveraging AI

• Leading agentic shopping efforts across Google AI surfaces

• Overseeing the user and product experience across AIO and AIM

• Enabled personalized shopping on Google from 0 to 1

• Laid foundations for Brand discovery, with a focus on longer tail brands and merchants

• Tripled the size my design team

UX Lead/Manager on Local Search | Google Search & Maps

• Crisis Response & Social Impact: Led a team of 20 designers in Geo on the rapid design and launch of the COVID Testing Centers and Vaccination Locations features on Google Maps and Search, providing critical, real-time information during a global health crisis.

Recognition: This work was honored with the first-ever Google Tech Impact Award (granted by Sundar Pichai), recognizing my product's significant societal contribution.

• Transforming Local Search UX: Architected and crafted the definitive user journeys for all Local Search verticals (Dining, Shopping, Services, Hotels, etc.), a foundational effort that streamlined the user experience across the entire Google Geo ecosystem. This strategic overhaul included successfully onboarding and aligning with UX leadership (Catherine Courage) on the new vision.

• Elevated Product Quality & Speed: Served as a launch approver for features impacting local search queries/ Crucially, I also optimized the launch approval process, balancing speed with the highest quality standards across this massive surface.

• Modernizing Core Design: Spearheaded the modernization of the Maps and Search design language across multiple key initiatives, achieving a proven lift in user satisfaction and delivering quantifiable improvements across major product metrics.

• Driving Community Engagement: Designed and launched successful User-Generated Content (UGC) contribution, consumption experiences and notification widgets, substantially driving user engagement and contribution across the Maps platform.

UX Lead on Commerce and Platform | Google Play Store on Android

• Spearheaded Play Store Commerce: Led design for the core transaction platform for the entire Play Store, covering purchase flows, payment management, refunds, and promotions across devices and web. Delivered significant features including the My Account launch and monetary gifting functionalities.

• Focused on the "Next Billion Users" in emerging markets like India, designing a lighter, faster, and more reliable Play experience for poor network connections. Delivered core features like Play Offline and Play Lite to ensure content accessibility in challenging network environments.

• Drove Apps User Engagement: Provided end-to-end design for features to drive user engagement and content discovery, enhancing the overall app browsing experience. Led the redesign of the review writing experience, resulting in significant increase in user-generated reviews.

Taught introductory programming modules: abstraction, recursion, and higher order function and led weekly discussion sections and labs.