# Vikram Bapat > Student Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vikrambapat ## Work Experience ### Director Of User Experience, Retail Ads Consumer and Advertiser Experiences @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco-CA | New York City-NY | Zurich-CH ### Head of Google Ads Platform UX (incl. Google Ads and Search Ads 360) @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Bangalore-IN | Kirkland-WA | Mountain View-CA | New York City-NY | Zurich-CH ### Head of Android + Play Developer UX, Senior Staff UX Design and Research Manager @ Google Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Kirkland-WA | London-UK | Mountain View-CA ### Principal UX Manager, Developer Experiences @ Microsoft Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, Washington, United States Developer experiences for Hololens, Cortana/Speech platform technologies, Windows IoT ### Principal UX Manager, Project Siena @ Microsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/projectsiena/default.aspx ### Principal UX Lead, Technical Computing Group @ Microsoft Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### Senior Design Researcher @ Microsoft Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 ### Product Designer @ Design Directions Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Engineering University of Cambridge ### MDes in Design: Communication Planning, Information Design, Interaction Design Carnegie Mellon University ### MArch in Industrial Design School of Planning and Architecture ### BArch in Architecture University of Poona ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vbapat --- Source: https://flows.cv/vikrambapat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vikrambapat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13