# Samadrita Das > Lead designer at YouTube Trust and Safety | Google Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samadrita I'm a passionate and results-driven Product Designer with over 7 years of hands-on experience in shaping digital experiences within the dynamic realms of startups and big tech companies. Throughout my career, I have worked across diverse industries including social media platforms, healthcare, e-commerce, and mapping. This exposure has gifted me the adaptability to quickly grasp new concepts, embrace change, and deliver results that meet both user needs and business goals. I am currently on a mission to enhance YouTube's trust and safety and make it a safe environment for the vibrant community. Prior to this, I worked as a Product Manager in the comment moderation space and co-founded a startup within Google. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer, Trust and Safety @ YouTube Jan 2023 – Present | San Bruno, California, United States As part of YouTube's Trust and Safety team, my primary focus is to build creator trust in the platform and keep the platform safe by minimizing policy-violative content. This involves preventing creators from posting harmful content and empowering them to navigate our policies effectively when mistakes occur. ### Product Designer, Trust and Safety @ YouTube Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 YouTube trust and Safety ### Product Manager, YouTube Comments @ YouTube Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Drove YouTube's auto-moderation strategy for comments to protect creators and viewers from hate and harassment. Built and launched YouTube’s first customizable Automoderation tool to meet the needs of our diverse set of creators ### Co-Founder and UX Lead, PromoDay, Area 120 @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 A120 was Google's internal startup incubator that funds a handful of ideas amongst hundreds of applications each year. I was part of a three-member team to pitch and build PromoDay from its inception, taking it from ground zero to a fully functional platform designed to help online shoppers save money. ### UX Designer, Google Maps @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California Design lead for the growth team to work on the next-generation products for Google's Geo Enterprise team. ### Project Manager-MHCI Capstone Project @ Zazzle Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Managed a cross-functional team of UX Researcher, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer and Developer to create a collaboration platform for creative designers, makers and end users for our client Zazzle as part of MHCI Capstone project at Carnegie Mellon University ### Product Designer @ Practo Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore As part of the book team, I was responsible for the booking experience of the patients in the Practo platform. This encompassed the appointment booking flow, post-appointment booking experience and building an overall reliable system. ### User Experience Design Intern @ Amazon Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India As part of the core shopping experience team, I worked on redesigning the details page on amazon.in app. Conducted thorough user research including surveys, competitive analysis, and heuristics evaluation to identify reasons for high drop-offs from product details page. Redesigned high-fidelity mockups using information design-driven approach to improving navigation, page layout & overall user experience. ### User Experience Researcher @ EI Lab, IIT Guwahati in collaboration with Samsung R&D, Bangalore Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Performed multiple field studies across the year in parts of Assam, India to identify patterns in aggregate user behaviour for problems faced by adults with cognitive, motor, hearing & speech disabilities in using mobile devices. Designed multiple user feedback driven prototypes to improve accessibility features on smart phones. ### Head of Creative Team @ Alcheringa, IIT Guwahati Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Guwahati Area, India Lead a two-tier team of over 30 core-team members responsible for the nation- wide promotion of Alcheringa, IIT Guwahati’s annual cultural festival. Incharge of all social media platforms, creating over 200 campaign posters, the logo and visual promo of the festival, designed specifically to cater to more than 100,000 followers. ### User Experience Design Intern @ Teamgum Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mumbai Worked on the UX/UI of the browser extension & website for the social utility product division of TeamGum. ## Education ### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of design in Human Computer Interaction Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor's degree Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ### High School in Computer Science JH Amabani School, Navi Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samadrita-das - Portfolio: https://samadritadas.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/samadrita JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samadrita/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25