# Lauren Argo

> Product Design Lead

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurenargo

I am a product designer leader who believes in technology's potential for good. I work with emerging technologies defining zero-to-one experiences that resonate with users. 

I have experience working in healthcare, transportation, and consulting with work that spans digital mediums (mobile, web, firmware), physical mediums (robotics, appliances), and systems (platforms, services).

## Work Experience
### Product Design Lead @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Leading the Android Media design team in crafting new experiences for creators on Pixel/Android phones. Developing new ways to create, edit, and share videos and images using AI and other emerging technologies.

Leading the Android Privacy and Security team in integrating AI into mobile devices in a way users can trust and rely on.

### Staff Product Designer and Manager @ Cruise
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Head of the Delivery Design team working as a staff level individual contributor and manager. Designing self-driving delivery services across mobile, physical, and service mediums. Led design discovery through MVP for 5 delivery products across consumers (grocery and prepared food customers) and merchant users.
- Design lead across various technical autonomous vehicle web applications including a simulation builder tool, remote vehicle operation tool, and developer tools. Users varied from highly trained engineers to minimally trained operators.

### Adjunct (Part-time) Professor @ Pratt Institute
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States

### Senior Product Designer @ Intuitive
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Lead designer on the design of a new, first of its kind robotic medical system from the makers of the DaVinci robotic surgical system. Facilitated cross functional collaboration to define the workflow and physical/digital interactions.
- Defined the delivery strategy and UX of a troubleshooting app for operating room staff mid-surgery.

### Lecturer @ California College of the Arts
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
Lectures on: 'Finding Emotion in Form and Interaction', 'Research Synthesis and Opportunity Finding', and 'Understanding Power and Privilege in Research'

### Product Designer @ gravitytank
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Chicago
Created strategic product visions that combined design and business needs for clients from top consumer electronic, food, and personal care brands. Responsibilities included: workshop facilitation (empathy building exercises, generative brainstorming, strategic road-mapping, user research, and team building activities), sketching, prototyping, user research synthesis, design strategy.

### Industrial Designer @ Smart Design
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Greater New York City Area
Developed and led projects from research to manufacturing for top clients in housewares (OXO), energy, and CPG industries. Responsibilities included: developing and conducting user research, collaborating with engineers and strategists to bring products to market, developing brand strategies for design/implementable translation, 3D modeling, sketching, prototyping.


## Education
### Master's degree in Interaction Design
California College of the Arts

### B.S. in Industrial Design
University of Cincinnati

### Industrial Design
Bergische Universität Wuppertal


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30