# Daniela Steinsapir > Design and Strategy Leader / Generative AI / Responsible AI / Platform UX / Systems Thinker / Consultant / Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/danielasteinsapir Design leader with 15+ years of experience building products across healthcare, enterprise, and creative tools. I've led teams and products from early exploration to scaled platforms with an emphasis on human-in-the-loop systems, clear mental models, and translating emerging technologies into experiences people can understand, trust, and act on. As a manager, I lead with empathy and intuition, collaboration and co-creation. I value doing over talking. I help experience designers learn to exercise and expand their craft, strategize and innovate on customer needs. Design Leadership | Design and Research Management | Experience Design I Responsible AI I Generative AI I Design Strategy | User-Centered Design Prototyping | Creative Direction I Interaction Design I System Design I Business Design I User Research I Service Design I Learning Design Design & Market Research I Platform Experience I Business Design I Red Teaming I Educational Technology ## Work Experience ### Senior Manager, User Experience @ Verily Jan 2024 – Present Lead design strategy for early-stage, AI-driven technologies across configuration, clinical research, and enterprise solutions, leveraging systems thinking to productize new AI capabilities and align teams around a unified product and platform vision. Manage, mentor, and hire UX talent, cultivating a collaborative and inclusive culture that supports growth, strong design craft, and strategic impact across multiple product areas. Apply systems thinking and advance visualization skills to clarify complex, ambiguous problems and create new interface paradigms for emerging Al-native products. Re-envisioning platform experience architecture, driving convergence across products and positioning the platform for accelerated adoption and scalability. Partnering with brand, marketing, and product management to define and launch the new brand strategy for Verily’s Precision Health Platform, aligning platform vision, market positioning, and user experience. Led a high-stakes, cross-functional initiative (PM, UXD, brand) to produce an investor-facing platform deep dive, defining narrative strategy and securing alignment on platform vision. Spearheaded a large enterprise-wide external research for Platform solutions, uncovering market and user insights that validated critical assumptions, redefined strategic direction, and de-risked 1st- and 3rd-party investments, directly shaping multi-year roadmaps. ### Senior Manager, Experience Architecture @ Autodesk Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 Led UX strategy for Autodesk's visualization platform used by millions of users across internal and external workflows. Led early work on trust in generative Al, identifying user needs and influencing product decisions. Built and mentored UX talent focused on experimentation, systems thinking, and product design execution. Partnered with Research, Trust, and Product leaders to shape Al governance and responsible Al product strategy. Led Responsible AI design research to identify risks and edge cases in Al-driven experiences. Presented findings internally to 400+ employees and highlighted externally, including in Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s TED Talk “Your Right to Repair AI Systems” as an example of best practices. Core member of the leadership team shaping the direction of Visualization products used by internal teams and third-party developers. Created system designs and frameworks that accelerate a common understanding in vision and direction critical to customer success. Led strategic research and competitive analysis to gain business intelligence throughout the entire development process. Chosen as one of twenty participants worldwide for a 12-month leadership training program for high-performing Latinx and Black employees. ### Senior Manager, Experience Design @ Autodesk Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Autodesk Education Led UX transformation of Autodesk's global certification program into a scalable digital learning ecosystem. Led prototyping efforts to explore emerging learning technologies, while shaping product direction and future-of-work strategy. Built and scaled UX design and research talent, fostering a thriving culture that supports their career growth and sense of belonging. Partnered with research and foresight teams to anticipate future-of-work trends in creative workflows and shape early product direction. Secured S2M+ investment through executive storytelling and platform vision connecting learning, product, and workforce readiness. Designed integrated learning directly into product experiences to support real-time skill development, tripling global engagement. Led customer relations, betas, demos, and strategic research to gather user feedback throughout the entire development process. Received the CEO Award, recognizing top %1 performers. Recipient of the Culture Hero Award (selected out of 1500 employees) for customer-centricity and impact. ### Senior User Experience Designer @ EPAM Systems Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 Design lead and Design Thinking coach driving early-stage discovery, service design, and 0 →1 product development. Led research. prototyping, and system definition to turn complex ideas into usable products. Partnered with account, product, and business teams to deliver solutions across enterprise, B2B, and B2C ### Experience Design Consultant - Strategist @ Early stage startups Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Led product design across mobile and web; focused on early-stage discovery and 0 1→product development; for startups including Cognoa, Happy Bits, Cleo, and Wikispaces. Directed design and research for education products following the TES Global acquisition. ### Design Fellow @ Adobe Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Partnered with Adobe Research scientists and product innovators on early-stage exploration of experimental tools across video, photography, and animation. Explored early machine learning applications in creative workflows. Co-inventor on patent: Interactive Communication Augmented with Contextual Information. US 14/133,806. ### Senior Experience Designer - Strategist @ 779Media Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 IOS & Android Software Development and Consulting. Defined the user experience, design strategy, and user flows for multiple apps, including MobileDJ™, Angry Friends, New Years Countdown, Raver Toy and Tip & Tap. Received Startup Chile Award. ### Design Thinking Coach @ Design Consultant Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 Designed and implemented new media arts, interactive design and design thinking curricula which celebrated a collaborative spirit, and incorporated new media technology at The Nueva School, Southern Exposure, DownTown High School, Imagine Bus project, Summer Institute for the Gifted (UC Berkeley) and Tehiyah Day School. ### Design Thinking Specialist I Interactive Design @ The Nueva School Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 Designed and implemented new media arts, interactive design and design thinking curricula which celebrated a collaborative spirit, and incorporated new media technology at The Nueva School. Other classes that I have taught include new media art, robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, conceptual art, kinetics, motion, color theory, installation, animation, mixed media, basics of electronics, and storytelling. ### New Media Artist & Researcher @ Independent Artist Jan 2004 – Jan 2012 Designed and researched complex robotic and interactive installations using a diverse set of electronics and new media video technologies. ### Ethnographic Research Assistant - Transformative Learning Technologies Lab @ Stanford University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ## Education ### MA in Learning, Design and Technology Stanford University ### MFA in Conceptual Information Arts (New Media Arts) Fulbright scholar. San Francisco State University ### Multimedia Developer IESA art & culture ### Advanced Photography Museo de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile. ### BA in Media Arts, Film, Television, Cinema and Radio. Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniela-steinsapir-b5b9258 --- Source: https://flows.cv/danielasteinsapir JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/danielasteinsapir/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13