# Anna P. > Design Leadership at Google | Mentor | Social impact Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/annap I've worked across public and private sectors in Health, Education/Employment, and the Smart Home. I believe the most impactful companies are both profit-driven and purpose-driven. My experience ranges from designing digital experiences to programs that directly improve people's lives. ## Work Experience ### UX Lead, Platform Growth @ Google Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, CA Drive design strategy, vision, and execution for partner experiences at scale with Gemini AI for Home at its core - delivering intelligent and helpful experiences for users via hardware, subscription services, and Google Home platform capabilities. Launched the first carrier partner experience with AT&T. ### UX Design Manager @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Led UX and built a high-performing design team to launch the end-to-end developer and consumer experiences on Android and iOS for Matter, an industry-changing standard enabling smart home devices to work seamlessly across major platforms (Google, Apple, and Amazon), accelerating time-to-market for developers while delivering a consistent, reliable user experience at scale. Recipient of the 2023 Google Tech Impact Award for Matter Led UX for the Google Home Developer Center (GHDC), driving new smart home integrations and migrating legacy smart home consoles to establish a unified, industry-leading development hub. ### Senior UX Designer @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States Grew from sole UX lead to building and managing a design team across multiple high-priority initiatives, including the launch of the Google Home Developer Center—covering the developer website, console, and 8 developer tools. Partnered closely with Product and Engineering to define key milestones for the end-to-end Matter experience, laying the foundation for smart home interoperability at scale. ### UX Designer @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California Led UX to scale the reseller subscription business through strategic partners such as ADT, and drove early-stage visioning for Matter - shaping product direction and securing executive alignment to advance for the future of smart home innovation. ### Head of Product and Design @ DayToDay Health Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area Acquired by Babylon DayToDay offers a Care Management Platform that delivers patients with personalized and evidence-based guidelines to help them prepare for and recover from their perioperative journeys. The platform includes a mobile app for patients to help them follow their recovery care plans and a web dashboard for nurses to monitor patient progress. I led product, design, research, and content. • Set the product vision, roadmap, KPIs, and prioritized features for the pilot product launched in India • Designed the initial concept and managed a team of designers and engineers to launch the product and create the design system • Led research to develop user journeys, identify pain points, and created usability testing guidelines • Partnered with our behavioral scientist and Chief Medical Officer to develop the content, timeline, and notification system for the Patient Care Plans ### Entrepreneur / Goss Fellow, MIT delta v Accelerator @ Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts DayToDay Health was selected as 1 of 17 startups from 100+ applications to participate in MIT delta v, an educational accelerator for entrepreneurs that helps them accelerate their growth in building viable, desirable, and sustainable ventures. Led market research, user research, and designed the initial concept of the DayToDay care platform. This helped us to obtain our first customer, Fortis Healthcare, one of the largest hospital chains in India. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Mentored graduate students on business strategy, design, and the product development process. Partnered with the Executive Director to set learning objectives, develop curriculum, and build a network of entrepreneurs and industry leaders as speakers. ### Strategy (Graduate Intern) @ Seymourpowell Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom Conducted market research, competitive analysis, and ethnographic research to identify new insights and inform the development of new products and business opportunities for Fortune 500 companies. Led the digital strategy for client projects and assessed new ways we could use both digital and hardware products to improve the current research process. Designed and conducted a branding workshop to educate global designers on how to build a sensorial branding experience as part of the London Future of Branding Week. ### Product Manager (Contract) @ Brain Power Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Brain Power offers a neuroscience-based suite of education apps that empower individuals with autism to teach themselves life skills crucial to self-sufficiency. The apps help with social-emotional skills such as interpreting emotions of others, maintaining eye contact, and controlling behaviors. I led the product soft launch and provided UX design guidance. • Managed the soft launch roadmap, priorities, and requirements • Designed the early adopter application flow, checkout flow, and email marketing campaign • Managed and coached a team of 10 engineers and 3 designers in product design and development • Provided UX design feedback for the Face2Face game which teaches students how to read the emotions of others using Google Glass. ### Lead UX Designer @ Chegg Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, CA Led large-scale end-to-end projects for the Chegg Study product focused on customer acquisition and retention. ### Senior UX Designer @ Chegg Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, CA Managed remote UX designers and led design for new and existing products for the High School and Scholarship verticals including the Chegg Colleges app from concept to launch. ### UX Designer @ Chegg Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA Led design projects for the integration of Zinch.com (acquired by Chegg) onto Chegg.com without impacting the business. ### UX Designer, Search @ eBay Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA Identified problem areas within the buyer experience and created solutions/frameworks that improved the UX and achieved business goals. ### UX Designer, Design Systems @ eBay Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, CA Designed guidelines and UI patterns for the eBay Design System to be used across the UX and Engineering organizations. ### Program Manager @ JCYC Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco, California, United States Established and led New Directions, the largest employment & education program in SF serving 200+ youth annually who were formerly involved with the juvenile justice system. ### Employment Program Coordinator @ Southeast Asian Development Center Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco, California, United States Empowered over 100 underserved youth by facilitating impactful job placements, leadership development, and public service opportunities through the Mayor’s Youth Employment & Education Program (MYEEP) under the leadership of former Mayor Gavin Newsom. ## Education ### S.M. in Engineering and Management, Integrated Design and Management (IDM) Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### B.A. in American Studies (concentration in Psychology and Legal Studies) University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/annaphan - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@annaphan --- Source: https://flows.cv/annap JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/annap/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13