# Jayati Ambekar

> designing for a green grid

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

Love to navigate complex and fuzzy problems with systems thinking to build products that matter. Committed to dedicating my skills and time to solutions that impact climate change.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Renew Home
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior UX Manager @ Lacework
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lacework is a cloud security platform that enables organizations to identify and react to threats and reduce risks.

Led a team of 5 designers that owned Platform and Growth experiences. Oversaw 10+ product launches rooted in user needs.

Instrumental in scaling design team (1→17) and ensuring quality with strong process. Defined UX success metrics and connected UX value to business impact. Core contributor to UX vision.

### UX Manager @ Lacework
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founding Designer @ Lacework
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Scouted by Sutter Hill Ventures to be 1st designer at Series B company to redesign the entire product.

Created information architecture, design system from the ground up. Set the strategy to migrate product to the new design and expand product portfolio.

### Interaction Designer @ YouTube
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Bruno, California, United States
Designed for the 2nd most-visited Home-page worldwide, after Google. YouTube's mission is to give the world a voice.

Set direction for new discovery experiences, influencing the product roadmap and contributing to new features.

Boosted user satisfaction on Youtube Home page with personalized user controls. Re-designed YouTube Home for tablets, leading to a △ 3.5% increase in company's core metric.

### Interaction Designer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View
Google Shopping is a marketplace on Google Search. Checkout is backed by a Google guarantee. Google provides help with late or incorrect orders, returns and refunds.

Design lead for critical pages of the conversion funnel - cart, checkout, order history. Re-architected purchase and post-purchase experience on Google Shopping with the help of 7 Eng teams.

2X conversion rate with a faster, simpler Checkout design. ▽ 32% customer service requests after launching the redesign.

### UX Design Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Bruno
Designed and developed 3 Android tablet prototypes for interactive video experiences for YouTube Kids app.

### Data Visualiszation Intern @ Annalect
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York, New York
Built interactive visualizations to map celebrity social statistics and survey data with D3 and python.

### Web Developer @ NYU Stern School of Business
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York, New York
Redesigned website of Center for Business Analytics in 4 weeks.

### UX + Tech Intern @ VML
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New York, New York
UX research and usability testing for client Kodak. Developer for publishing app for client Ernst and Young.


## Education
### Stanford Ignite in Certificate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Master's Degree in Interactive Telecommunications Program
New York University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### Master's degree in Design
New York University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jayatiambekar
- Portfolio: https://read.cv/jayati

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Last updated: 2026-03-30