# Christian Ervin

> Head of Product Design at Glean

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

UX Design & Product Innovation.

## Work Experience
### Head of Product Design @ Glean
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, CA

### Head of Design and Product @ iyo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
IYO is a Google X spinout reinventing the computer in light of advances in AI. As Head of Design, I lead user experience, including defining an entirely novel Auditory User Interface, as well as overseeing industrial design and brand.

### Senior Staff UX Design Manager (Google X) @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Product strategy and design leadership for Alphabet's moonshot portfolio. Managed multi-disciplinary teams of software and hardware designers, user researchers, prototypers, and business strategists. Led the design of MVP software for Mineral, Tidal, many other Google X projects.

### Global Design Director @ Tellart
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Amsterdam, NL
As Design Director at Tellart, I led diverse teams of engineers, designers, and researchers to imagine, prototype, and develop early product prototypes and interactive experiences, with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies (e.g. machine learning in consumer applications) and complex systems (e.g. the future of a gulf state).

Our work was featured in international publications and received numerous awards, including the 2016 National Design Award in Interaction Design from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

### Design Lead @ Tellart
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

### Creative Technologist @ Tellart
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Providence, Rhode Island Area

### Project Manager, Adaptive Living Environments @ Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA

### Program Manager, Idea Translation Lab @ Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Architectural Designer @ Various
Jan 2005 – Jan 2011
From 2005-2011, I had the honor of learning and working under several talented architects, including Nader Tehrani and Monica Ponce de Leon at Office dA in Boston, Sarah Graham and Marc Angelil at Angelil Graham Pfenninger Scholl in Los Angeles, Gabriel Kroiz at Kroiz Architecture in Baltimore, Heidi Beebe and Doug Skidmore at Beebe Skidmore in Portland, and Ryan Walsh at DRW Design Build in Portland. Under their mentorship, I learned to design and build at various scales, from cutlery to master plans, to meet with clients, consultants, and contractors, to create construction document sets, and to manage complex projects.


## Education
### Master of Design Studies in Technology
Harvard University Graduate School of Design

### B.Arch in Architecture
Rice University

### B.A. in Architecture
Rice University

### The Catlin Gabel School

### CORe: Credential of Readiness
HBX | Harvard Business School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13