# Sean Whipps

> Product Design Director at Google

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

Sean Whipps is a California based design director working at Google. Currently Sean is thinking about how over a billion people can view their lifetime of memories that they carry around with them in their pocket each day at Google Photos. 

In 2019 Sean took a design leadership position at Instagram where he led the design team behind Instagram Stories and was a founding member of the Reels team. Over the course of a year and a half the team shipped Reels, a new scalable camera interface, developed an AR platform that blurs the line between art, culture and technology while also shipping several interactive tools that help over a billion users express who they are. 

Starting in 2017, he developed several machine learning features that reside across the Google suite of apps and co-patented Google Drive Priority, a location agnostic file system that utilizes machine learning that allows for people to stay focused on what matters most - getting work done. 

From 2014 - 2017, Sean led the redesign of the world's second most visited website, YouTube.com which averages five billion videos being watched and over thirty million unique visitors, totaling over a billion hours of watch time every single day.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Director @ Google
Jan 2020 – Present

### Senior Design Manager @ Instagram
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
↳ Instagram Stories
↳ Instagram Reels

### Staff Design Lead @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019
↳ Youtube.com

### UX Lead @ Instrument
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

### Senior Interactive Art Director @ Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011

### Senior Designer @ Odopod
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010

### Senior Designer @ Schematic
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Principal @ FiKA!
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008
Freelance Interactive Art Director / Creative Developer.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/seanwhipps
- Portfolio: http://seanwhipps.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13