# Vipul Thakur

> Staff Product Designer at Stripe

Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vipulthakur

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### UX Lead @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
I lead UX for the Incubation team at Google Assistant.

### Senior Interaction Designer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Vipul Thakur
I led projects to build frameworks to enable the consumer experience for third-party experiences on Google Assistant.

### Interaction Designer @ YouTube
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta, Georgia
Masters in Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

### User Experience Design Intern @ YouTube, Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
I designed the end-to-end experience for product annotations, with an aim to create a standard interaction model for the user and a YouTube controlled user experience.
• I designed the viewer experience for desktop and mobile and also the creator workflow.
• Developed interactive prototypes which were tested with 8 users, which led to the development of further iterations.

### UX Consultant @ Kuchnaya
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Mumbai, India
I did think-aloud usability testing, interaction design and wireframing of a content creation web-app.
See my work here:
URL: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Kuchnayacom-Interaction-design/4960319

### Software Engineer @ Atos
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Mumbai, India
Application Developer for InTouchSupport.com- A knowledge management system, for Schlumberger. I started with testing the product, and was soon moved to be part of the design and development team. Travelled to USA for training, client interactions, presentations and project planning discussions. My primary tasks:
• Prototyping and implementation of User Interface changes using jQuery, CSS and Coldfusion.
• Managing the search indexes and the user interface for Endeca Search and Google Search Appliance.
• Received Employee rating of 5 out of 5. I was only the 2nd employee ever in the team, to receive the rating.


## Education
### Masters in Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Georgia Institute of Technology

### BE in Electronics and Telecommunications
Sardar Patel Institure of Technology

### Hansraj Morarji Public School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13