Naveen Sreenivasan

Head of Design

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led UX for YouTube's advanced AI platform.
  • Mentored startups in Google for Startups Accelerator.
  • Designed engaging ad experiences across YouTube.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C UX Designer with expertise in Generative AI and User Experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience (ux)Design StrategyDesign ThinkingCoaching & Mentoring

Other Skills

ABAPAdobe Creative SuiteAdobe IllustratorAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsBusiness StrategyCC++Campus PlacementCommunicationConsultingContextual InquiryConversation DesignCritical ThinkingData Structures

Experience

Google for startups

Mentor

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Mentor for Google for Startups Accelerator: Apps 2025 Class
  • From 730+ applications, we chose 20 incredible startups working around Healthcare, Gaming, EdTech, and beyond! These startups now join our 200+ strong Google for Startups Accelerator India community! Over few months, we'll be working closely with these startups, providing them with the tools and expertise to build and scale exceptional Android apps. We'll support them in overcoming technical challenges, refining their business strategies, user experience and helping them find more avenues for growth and expansion.

Youtube

Design Lead

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Leading UX for Youtube's Growth Platform (Nitrate) and formats as part of *Youtube Premium, Commerce and Nitrate* team.
  • At Youtube, Nitrate is our advanced AI platform designed to innovate and manage visual campaigns, enabling us to engage with over 2 billion users. Leveraging cutting-edge Gen AI and advanced LLM capabilities, Nitrate drives exceptional targeted user engagement and delivers impactful business results.
User Experience (UX)Generative AIDesign StrategyCoaching & MentoringFigma (Software)

Google

Design Lead

Jun 2017Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Current:
  • Design lead: Youtube's Growth Platform (Nitrate)
  • Previous:
  • Senior Interaction Designer, YouTube Ads – Designing ad experiences across Youtube surfaces and verticals.
  • Interaction Designer, Google Assistant Discovery & Developer Platform – Building developer and discovery tools for voice conversation creators.
  • Google Fiber 'Webpass' – First UXer in the Webpass org. Led end to end design process of this high-speed internet service (acquired by Google) for both consumer facing website, customer portal and enterprise internal tool building a suite of features like Network management, Campaign management, Customer service management.
User Experience (UX)Design ThinkingFigma (Software)Enterprise Design PatternsCoaching & Mentoring

Webpass inc.

User Experience Designer

Jun 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Acquired by Google
Figma (Software)Enterprise Design PatternsDesign StrategyUser Experience (UX)

Adobe

Accelerated Innovation Experience Design Intern

May 2016Aug 2016 · 3 mos · San Jose

  • As part of the Adobe HIVE team, helped customers across departments in accelerating strategy and innovation through collaboration and research methodology.
  • Conducted various research experiments along with customers to understand their users/problems and help them synthesis the data.
  • Conducted Design Thinking workshop for internal and extended team .
  • Redesigned HIVE internal tools to make it more intuitive and user friendly.
Enterprise Design Patterns

Indiana university bloomington

Associate Instructor - Information Representation

Aug 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bloomington, Indiana Area

  • The basic structure of information representation in digital information systems : Introduces formal design and query languages through Entity Relationship Modeling, the Relational Model, XML, and XHTML.
Enterprise Design PatternsCoaching & Mentoring

Sap labs

Software Engineer

Jun 2012Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Worked as an User Experience Developer and Designer in SAP CRM team as part of which developed cross platform applications and gained expertise in CRM sales and marketing, loyalty management and commerce platform.
  • 3 years of experience working in scrum/ agile environment
Enterprise Design PatternsCoaching & MentoringUser Experience (UX)

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Intern

May 2011Jun 2011 · 1 mo

  • Worked as an user research intern at Eklavya Summer Internship Programme,2011 Under the guidance of Professor D. B. Phatak, Computer Science Department, IIT Bombay.

Model engineering college

2 roles

Design Head, Excel 2k11

Dec 2010Nov 2011 · 11 mos

Career Service Student Coordinator

Jun 2010Apr 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Was involved in the Placement Cell, a student body which is responsible for maintaining the corporate relations of the college.
  • Created career service brochure, conducted career development workshop for students, critiqued resumes and organized career fairs
Coaching & Mentoring

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

LEAD Business Program

Mar 2024Mar 2025

Indiana University Bloomington

Master’s Degree — Human Computer Interaction (HCI - Design)

Jan 2015Jun 2017

Model Engineering College

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

J.H Ambani School, Navi Mumbai

XII

Jan 1993Jan 2008

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