# Vanessa Joho > Lead Product Designer at Google Location: Marina del Rey, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vanessajoho I'm a Lead Product Designer who can strategize, design and code. I’ve successfully led large cross-functional / cross org projects from ideation to launch. And have experience on the IC and UX management path. I’ve led design efforts across many platforms, including responsive/adaptive web, iOS / android devices, kiosk, AR, automotive screens, and multi-modal experiences for a wide range of industries, such as business intelligence, entertainment, autonomous vehicles, beauty, health and wellness. I've designed and shipped global products used multi-culturally, in companies like YouTube, Google Cloud, Audible.com, Akamai, Microsoft, Samsung, Estée Lauder, Accenture and a Chinese electric automotive startup called Byton. My mix of design, business strategy, UX research, coding, and management skills makes it easy for me to wear multiple hats and communicate with multidisciplinary teams. Portfolio: www.vjoho.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tools: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React.js, React Native, Node.js, Terminal, Git/GitHub, Arduino ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ Google Jan 2020 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States YouTube (2022 - Present) Lead Product Designer Leading 0 to 1 discovery and growth experiences on YouTube's main app, to help viewers effortlessly find valuable content to watch. Google Cloud (2020 - 2022) UX lead + manager Led the Core team, where I managed 2 direct reports, defined the team's quarterly OKRs, and coordinated UXD resources. As an IC I strategized, designed and launched Looker’s self-onboarding experience and a tool that allowed BigQuery users to integrate Looker’s data into BigQuery. ### UX/UI Design Mentor | Part-time @ Springboard Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 Mentor 5 UX/UI Design students as they learn the fundamentals of UX/UI Design by working on a multiple projects. Meet with them weekly on 1:1 calls to provide feedback, career advise, set weekly tasks / goals, and assist with road blocks. My students have given me an overall mentorship rating of 4.98/5. ### Senior Designer, Product Design @ Samsung Electronics Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California ### Lead UX Designer & Manager @ BYTON Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, California - Led system architecture and UX design of Bosch compatible Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) for the 2019 production car. - Managed 2 junior designers on ADAS projects. - Worked closely with 10 engineers to understand each ADAS feature's requirements and technical limitation. - Define the architecture of the steering wheel hard buttons and it's interaction with the vehicle's multiple displays and sound/voice system. - Performed co-creation research study with 30 potential buyers in Shanghai, China (e.g card sorting, paper prototype, usability studies). - Experienced the growing pains as this Chinese startup expanded from 70 to over 1,200 employees within 1 year. ### UX Designer @ BYTON Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Led the UX architecture and design of in vehicle health feature, which was gesture controlled. Worked closely with QA engineers to test and prepare prototype for launch at CES 2018 ### Senior / Lead Product Designer (contracts) @ Estee Lauder, Accenture, PlanSnap, McDonalds, Barbarian Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | new york, ny Variety of clients (onsite) ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, user researching, architecting, wireframing, visual designing, prototyping and user testing products for mobile, tablet, desktop and kiosk. ONSITE CLIENTS + ROLES: - Lead Mobile Product Designer - PlanSnap (Techstars iOS App) - Lead Product Designer - Estée Lauder (Adaptive Website) - Senior Interaction Designer - Accenture (Capital One Website) - Senior UX Prototyper - Method (McDonalds Projects) ### UX Engineer (contact) @ Audible, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Newark, New Jersey Was part of the UX System design team that redesigned and shipped Audible.com's adaptive website, iOS app and Android app. I bridged the gap between UX design and development with my design and coding skills. We used sketch to design and React.JS / React Native to develop the UI toolkit library used to redesign the Audible.com's website and apps. Provided UX research team with prototypes of multiple Audible and Amazon concepts to user test. ### UX Engineer @ Story Worldwide Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | new york, ny - Developed browser compatible online campaign websites for Unilever clients (e.g. Bertolli, I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter, Country Crock), using HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, and Twitter Bootstrap. - Improved the user experience of the websites I developed. - Taught the technology, design and marketing teams about responsive vs adaptive web design. ### UX Designer / UX Engineer (contract) @ Microsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | New York, New York - Worked within a team of four designers and developers on an experimental project for Microsoft Fuse Labs. We researched and designed concepts of ways to humanize networked data ### UX/UI Designer (contract) @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area - Lead UX designer of an API client authorization system. - Worked closely with front-end engineers, back-end engineers, and system architects to understand the complexities of the project. - Project presented at Akamai’s Edge Conference 2013. - Company made me a full time offer multiple times once contract ended. ## Education ### Master's degree in Interactive Media Arts (ITP) New York University ### B.A. in Graphic Design Northeastern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vanessajoho - Portfolio: http://www.vanessajoho.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/vanessajoho JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vanessajoho/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31