# Naveen Sreenivasan > UX Design @Youtube, Google | Stanford GSB LEAD ’24 | Google for Startup Accelerator Mentor Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/naveensreenivasan ## Work Experience ### Design Lead @ YouTube Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leading UX for Youtube's Growth Platform (Nitrate) and formats as part of *Youtube Premium, Commerce and Nitrate* team. At Youtube, Nitrate is our advanced AI platform designed to innovate and manage visual campaigns, enabling us to engage with over 2 billion users. Leveraging cutting-edge Gen AI and advanced LLM capabilities, Nitrate drives exceptional targeted user engagement and delivers impactful business results. ### Mentor @ Google for Startups Jan 2025 – Present Mentor for: Google for Startup Accelerator 2026: Canada Fourteen AI-driven startups have been selected for the class of 2026, addressing challenges across a wide range of industries, including healthcare and life sciences, social assistance, real estate, construction, agriculture, finance, manufacturing, professional and technical services, as well as e-commerce. Google for Start Accelerator Apps 2025 Class: India From 730+ applications, we chose 20 incredible startups working around Healthcare, Gaming, EdTech, and beyond! These startups now join our 200+ strong Google for Startups Accelerator India community! Over few months, we'll be working closely with these startups, providing them with the tools and expertise to build and scale exceptional Android apps. We'll support them in overcoming technical challenges, refining their business strategies, user experience and helping them find more avenues for growth and expansion. ### Design Lead @ Google Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Current: Design lead: Youtube's Growth Platform (Nitrate) Previous: Senior Interaction Designer, YouTube Ads – Designing ad experiences across Youtube surfaces and verticals. Interaction Designer, Google Assistant Discovery & Developer Platform – Building developer and discovery tools for voice conversation creators. Google Fiber 'Webpass' – First UXer in the Webpass org. Led end to end design process of this high-speed internet service (acquired by Google) for both consumer facing website, customer portal and enterprise internal tool building a suite of features like Network management, Campaign management, Customer service management. ### User Experience Designer @ Webpass Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Acquired by Google ### Associate Instructor - Information Representation @ Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Bloomington, Indiana Area The basic structure of information representation in digital information systems : Introduces formal design and query languages through Entity Relationship Modeling, the Relational Model, XML, and XHTML. ### Accelerated Innovation Experience Design Intern @ Adobe Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose • As part of the Adobe HIVE team, helped customers across departments in accelerating strategy and innovation through collaboration and research methodology. • Conducted various research experiments along with customers to understand their users/problems and help them synthesis the data. • Conducted Design Thinking workshop for internal and extended team . • Redesigned HIVE internal tools to make it more intuitive and user friendly. ### Software Engineer @ SAP Labs Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Bangalore - Worked as an User Experience Developer and Designer in SAP CRM team as part of which developed cross platform applications and gained expertise in CRM sales and marketing, loyalty management and commerce platform. - 3 years of experience working in scrum/ agile environment ### Career Service Student Coordinator @ Model Engineering College Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 Was involved in the Placement Cell, a student body which is responsible for maintaining the corporate relations of the college. - Created career service brochure, conducted career development workshop for students, critiqued resumes and organized career fairs ### Design Head, Excel 2k11 @ Model Engineering College Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ### Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Worked as an user research intern at Eklavya Summer Internship Programme,2011 Under the guidance of Professor D. B. Phatak, Computer Science Department, IIT Bombay. ## Education ### LEAD Business Program Stanford University Graduate School of Business Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI - Design) Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering Model Engineering College Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### XII in CBSE, Computer Science J.H Ambani School, Navi Mumbai Jan 1993 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/naveensreenivasan --- Source: https://flows.cv/naveensreenivasan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/naveensreenivasan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30