# Doug Geerdes

> Product Designer at YouTube

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

Focus on Interaction Design in emerging technologies, Specifically Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. From concept generation through protoyping.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ YouTube
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building mobile first, multi-surface tools focused on content creators. Most recently, led the launch of a video promotion tool on YouTube mobile app that increases channel engagement. Also led an AI driven feature that analyzes videos in real-time, providing feedback on quality and suggesting ways to improve their quality.

### Senior Product Designer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
Building new products that help businesses reach new customers. Including but not limited to, a zero to one launch of a product that helps drive in store visits and an AI driven ad format that takes multiple assets and generates the ideal ad that best reaches the target audience.

### Product Designer @ Freelance
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Clients: Facebook, Samsung & NewsCorp
Services: UX research, interaction design/development, UX/UI concepts, prototyping & VR/AR

### Lead Designer @ Woods Bagot
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
Clients: Clients: SFO & Precinct Properties
Services: Interaction design, user research, data analysis, art direction, 3D environmental design & VR

### Lead Designer @ WRNS Studio
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
Client - Santana Row, San Jose
Services: User experience, art direction, 3D environmental design, cinematics & VR

### Associate @ Studios Architecture
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Clients: Google, Apple, Samsung, Stanford & Tishman Speyer. 
Services:  UX design, art direction, 3D environmental design & cinematics

### Designer @ Behnisch Architekten
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Clients: Singapore, Harvard, & UC Berkeley
Services:  UX research and concepting, art direction & 3D environmental design

### Lead Designer @ eJungle.us
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005
Clients: California State University, Viacom & Warner Brothers
Services:  UI/UX design, art direction,  front-end web development & project management

### Researcher @ The Scripps Research Institute
Jan 1997 – Jan 2001
Services:  R & D, data visualization,  quantitative data generation, visualization & microscopy.


## Education
### M.Arch in Architecture
University of Oregon

### B.S. in Molecular Biology
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/doug-geerdes-a801391
- Website: http://www.dgeerdes.com

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Last updated: 2026-02-23