# Arash Sadr

> AI Futures @ Deepmind

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

As an Applied AI Strategist at DeepMind, I specialize in translating pure AI research into applied product. I operate as the critical strategic bridge ensuring DeepMind’s breakthroughs successfully integrate into Google's ecosystem to reach billions of users.

My role requires balancing strategic foresight (defining what to build) with a holistic solutions approach (defining how to build it) and deep cross-PA partnerships (defining who to build it with). I guide 0-to-1 product incubation, challenging convention to solve near-future user demands.

This work is built on a foundation of shipping 0-to-1 products within Google and leading the rapid advancement of generative AI experiences for Google. With a background in industrial design and approximately 20 AI patents filed, I bring a unique perspective focused on the essential harmony between advanced AI, user experience, and real-world function.

## Work Experience
### Product Innovation & Design - Gen AI @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Leading 0-to-1 Product Strategy, AI Foresight & Cross-PA Integration.

### Head of Product Experience @ Google
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
AI Product Expansion

### Innovation & Design @ Google Labs @ Google
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Devising strategies, fostering innovation, and driving design initiatives.

### Innovation Lead (AI/GAI) @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Shopping Labs

### Design Lead @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California
Google Assistant
Whole Home Services
Assistant On TV

### Founder @ Arc Design Group Co.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020

### UX Research & Strategy Instructor @ George Brown College
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Focus on foresight & innovation

### Design Lead @ Impact Infrastructure (Autocase)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Responsible for running the entire cycle of design process including creating design briefs and specifications, conducting brainstorming sessions and white-boarding exercises, gathering feedback from user research, wire-framing and prototyping

### Design Director @ Nanoleaf
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Designed "The future of light"
• Designed a future back strategy that bridged the gap between physical / digital / spatial

### Co-Founder - Interactive Designer • UX • UI @ Tasky
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Executive Manager @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Iran, Tehran
• Managing and directing the design team, to develop the layouts and displays of new and existing stores throughout the City of Tehran.

### Fetal model 3‐D modelling and material development Research Assistant @ OCAD University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
• The Research Project consisted of the integration of MR and CT scans of open available fetal model data, at a gestational age of approximately
•28 weeks. In addition, the project also inserted into the existing healthy data, selected pathological conditions for specific study.
• Explored new software applications to create high‐resolution, life‐like and accurate segmentations of surface, bone and organs that ultimately produced more accurate fetal models for training.

### Research Assistant @ OCAD University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
• Researched and designed new course codes for the Industrial Design faculty. 
• Researcher at University's "Imagination Catalyst”

### Senior Inclusive Designer @ OCAD University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Worked with the project team and relevant stakeholders to design the user experience and interactions for accessible software.
• Coordinated and conducted all stages of the design process, from user research to conceptualizing to scoping and sketching to full visual, high-fidelity design, in order to achieve the design goals of each project
• Mentored other designers and strategized about design approaches, processes, and collaborative methods; develop new methodologies that contribute to the advancement of inclusive design
• Determined design direction, structuring design activities, and mentoring design team in execution of activities
• Create design models, such as user personas, use case scenarios, conceptual maps, and workflow diagrams based on user research results

### Instructor @ Azad University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Held a class for the design students on the topic of Biomimicry.

### Wood / Plastic shop Monitor @ Ontario College of Art & Design
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design
OCAD University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arashsadr
- Website: http://www.arashsadr.com
- Website: https://www.designingfor.ai/

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Last updated: 2026-04-05