# Angelina Thomas

> Product Strategy & Innovation Leader | AI Workflow & Infrastructure Systems

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

Innovation and product strategy leader focused on translating ambiguous, high-stakes workflows into scalable AI-enabled systems. I specialize in early discovery, pilot deployments, and cross-functional alignment to turn messy problems into production-ready products. 

Previously at Google and Meta building platform infrastructure, 0→1 initiatives, and mission-critical systems. I've built products used by 1.5B+ people, architected operational systems for lunar exploration, and shaped executive roadmaps for responsible Al. I focus on turning complex technical systems into usable, trusted products at scale.

## Work Experience
### Founder @ AI Research Infrastructure (Stealth)
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led workflow discovery and market validation shaping early positioning and GTM exploration
- Built an AI-powered UXR platform unifying qualitative depth with quantitative scale.
- Owned 0 → 1 product strategy across positioning, experimentation and technical direction
- Balanced AI accelerated design with human oversight to preserve product quality and user trust.
- Recruited and led a distributed a small global engineering team.

### Product Designer (Platform Strategy & Innovation) @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States
- Led system-level design of Instagram’s first structured creator attribution model across Feed and Reels.
- Launched creator attribution infrastructure to 1.5B+ users.
- Built early validation framework enabling workflow pilots and product direction testing before engineering investment
- Reoriented teams from intuitive-driven roadmaps to continuous evidence-based development.
- De-risked engineering investment through early behavioral validation.

### Product Designer and UX Researcher (NASA CubeRover Project) @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Architected mission control systems deployed in the world’s first compact private lunar rover mission.
- Advised PNC’s Numo incubator on AI-driven financial product strategy and adaptive interface design
- Built evaluation frameworks for integrating AI-powered adaptive interfaces into UX workflows

### Product Strategy & Interaction Design @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Re-architected TensorFlow Extended (TFX) workflows, reducing ML data preprocessing friction.
- Led interaction design for ML tooling powering spam detection and abuse mitigation.
- Defined product vision for a societal context knowledge graph to advance responsible AI.
- Influenced executive roadmap decisions, securing sponsorship for fairness initiatives.

### Product Specialist @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Lead global advertising workflow strategy, optimizing UX and operational efficiency.

### Product Management Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California

### Career Preparation Fellow @ Management Leadership for Tomorrow
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Selected as one of 230 for an 18-month professional development program for high-achieving diverse talent
- Participated in business cases and four conferences hosted by industry leaders, such Goldman Sachs, Deloitte and Target

### International Leadership Intern @ International Leadership Institute
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
- Spread awareness of academic and political issues in Kenya through newsletters, event promotion and speaking engagements 
- Work with tribal leaders from Kenya and Somalia to ascertain the needs of their community to improve lives of citizens
- Raise donations through various marketing strategies to supply fire trucks and ambulances for communities in need
- Deliver speeches at ILI award ceremony to communicate the promotions of equality and justice globally
- Write one to two grants a semester to help fund the non-profit's programs target towards helping inner-city children


## Education
### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Marketing, with honors
Loyola Marymount University

### Graduate Extension Coursework in UX Design and Strategy
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/angelinagt

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Last updated: 2026-04-08