# Timo Hoyer > UX Lead at Google Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/timohoyer Timo is a lead designer with 15 years of experience who makes it his mission to rescue developers from bad internal software. He’s been taking dense, complicated systems and turning them into simple, intuitive experiences. He builds consumer-grade apps for the enterprise workspace, because he knows that when work tools are actually easy to use, people are a lot happier and a lot more productive. ## Work Experience ### UX Lead for Data Analytics @ Google Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Leading design for Data Analytics and spearheading the user experience for BigQuery ML, making machine learning accessible to everyone. Created Kubernetes clusters for Google Managed Kafka Connect. Shaping the vision for BigQuery's Graph, pushing the boundaries of graph analytics within BigQuery. Additionally, leading the charge on Notebooks UX within BigQuery and aligning with Colab, Vertex AI and Looker. ### UX Lead @ Google Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Design for Core ML, and spatial efficiency in Google data centers. Our goal is to streamline the process to deploy infrastructure—compute, networking, power, and physical data center construction. ### UX Lead @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Саннивейл, CA Design Lead on a mission to automate service capacity management in P2020, to help ensure reliability, while optimizing Google-wide efficiency. ### Senior Interaction Designer @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Саннивейл, CA Our mission is to provide best in class internal tooling experiences for Google’s SRE and developer workforce to manage and automate their service’s capacity. ### Senior Product Design Lead @ VMware Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Пало-Алто, CA As the Design Lead for VMware Cloud Management, specifically Cloud Automation, I spearheaded user research and product design efforts, collaborating closely with UI engineering for VMware vRealize Automation Cloud and Blueprints. The objective was to empower cloud teams to efficiently and delightfully meet the requirements of application teams. Under my leadership, the implementation of user-centric design strategies contributed to a noteworthy 18% improvement in user satisfaction and a distinct 12% reduction in the time required for blueprint creation. Additionally, vRealize Automation Cloud successfully facilitated seamless multi-cloud deployment on AWS, Azure, GCP, and vSphere, enhancing the Infrastructure as Code experience for users. ### Principal Designer @ SAP Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Пало-Алто, CA SAP Fiori for iOS Design System — Apple Partnership As the Design Lead for the SAP Project Companion app, collaborated synergistically with the Human Interface Design group at Apple, orchestrating design sprints for iterative enhancements. Demonstrated accountability and responsibility for the comprehensive end-to-end design process, resulting in the successful launch of the app on the App Store. SAP Leonardo — IoT Engineering As the User-Centered Design Lead for SAP Leonardo IoT Bridge and SAP Connected Goods, successfully spearheaded the creation of two products, achieving a 20% increase in user satisfaction and a 15% reduction in user onboarding time. Implemented key methodologies, including Stanford d.school's principles for creative problem-solving, resulting in a 25% improvement in design efficiency and a 30% enhancement in overall product usability. ### Senior Product Designer @ SAP Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Mobility Design Center: End-to-end design of 10+ enterprise iOS and web apps for Costco, ExxonMobil, Delta Airlines, T-Mobile, Kiewit, Sysco. Directly worked with these customers in discovery workshops on-site. ### Product Designer @ SAP Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Heidelberg Area, Germany Product design for iOS and web apps of front runner cloud solutions in CRM and HR/HCM. Translating monolithic desktop solutions onto the first generation of lightweight iPad apps. ### Freelance Interaction Designer @ adidas Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany Art direction and graphic design for web experiences, digital and print marketing for Adidas Originals. ### Freelance Designer @ Ligalux GmbH Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Hamburg Area, Germany Brand identity design and digital product design for various mid-sized customers. ### User Interface Designer @ Siemens Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Nürnberg Area, Germany As a UX consultant, I specialized in enhancing the usability of device interfaces, with a focus on applications such as wind turbines. ### Freelance Designer @ SPRINGER & JACOBY GmbH Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Hamburg, Germany Ad agency graphic design, brand identity and illustration for Fortune 500 companies. ### Co-Founder & Design Lead @ Cyromedia Web Development Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 | Nürnberg Area, Germany Co-Founder and Design Lead responsible for building web platforms for small to mid-sized businesses. ## Education ### Dipl. Des. (FH) / Master of Arts (M.A.) in Visual Communication Design Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timohoyer - Website: http://timohoyer.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/timohoyer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/timohoyer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07