# Sumier Phalake > Sr. Staff Product Designer, Long Term Bets at Google Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sumier I’m a mission-driven design leader who keeps two things at the center of my work - who i’m building for, and who i’m building with. With over 15 years of experience across both consumer and enterprise products, i'm passionate about solving meaningful problems, no matter how small or challenging. I'm in it cause I love design and love enabling, inspiring and growing successful teams. ## Work Experience ### Designer, Generative AI Strategy, Long Term Bets @ Google Jan 2023 – Present Pursuing innovative bets within the realm of Generative AI at Google. ### Head of Design, Next Billion Users (NBU) @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 - Led Next Billion Users, an incubator building early-stage products for user challenges in emerging markets (150 FTE). - Led and managed the UX team in the NBU organization at Google, managing a team in SF, London, Bangalore, Singapore and Sydney. The team launched over ten 0 to 1 products in NBU markets, ran cross-Google programs and research initiatives. - Led growth on Files By Google (to 500M MAU) and Camera Go (to 9M MAU) - Led Kormo, a job platform for emerging markets (2M MAU) - Led Station, a public Wi-Fi platform that became the 5th largest public Wi-Fi network in the world at it's peak (100M unique users). - Led UX programs to increase confidence in problems prioritized by the team. - Built a rapid design prototyping team to foster a build-to-learn culture to help validate hypotheses fast. ### UX Design Lead (Staff Designer), Access and Utilities @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 Led and managed the design team for all Access and Utility products across Google's Next Billion Users team - Google Station, Files by Google, Camera Go etc. ### UX Design Lead, Google Station, Next Billion Users @ Google Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design and research and managed the team for Google Station, which brought access to free, fast public Wi-Fi to global users. ### Senior User Experience Designer, Brillo and Weave Developer Experience, Android @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Led Design for the developer experience for Internet of Things platforms Brillo and Weave within the Android organization at Google. ### Senior User Experience Designer, Core UX @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Led a design team that built several internal tools at Google including Google's performance management, internal jobs and skills development platforms. ### User Experience Designer @ IBM Interactive Jan 2005 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta, GA User Experience/IA: UX Consultant for IBM Interactive for the past several years. Projects have included developing User Experience for a wide range of multi-channel, multi-platform interactive products across a range of industries including retail, media, sports and education among others. Relevant projects include: Sony Pictures Enterprise Blu-Ray Disc Authoring Solution, Tribune Interactive news site redesign, Power up MMORPG game design, Teachers Tryscience educational social media site, Faberge.com luxury retail site, Masters Golf, Wimbledon, US Open. Social Media Strategy: Developed Social Media strategy for various non-profit, public media and retail organizations. Strategy deliverables including governance, best practices, private social networks, and metrics. Graphic Design/Flash: Developed numerous graphic design assets and developed flash based prototypes and interactive presentations for clients. I also have a experience with Actionscript development. Clients include Coke, Masters Golf, Tryscience, 4-H. ### Flash Developer @ Cyco Software Inc Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Designed and Developed Flash based Interactive demo for Engineering Data Management Solutions company Cyco Software. The CD is now being distributed to potential Cyco clients and customers across the world and is available on their website. It is also being translated in several languages. ## Education ### MS in Information Design and Technology Georgia Institute of Technology ### BE in Computer Engineering University of Mumbai ### BE in Computer Engineering PVPP CoE ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sumier --- Source: https://flows.cv/sumier JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sumier/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13