Nikhil Dev

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led UX vision for Gemini's AI Assistant.
  • Co-founded Sprout, raising $1.2M in funding.
  • Designed flagship Google Gemini apps for iOS and Android.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a User Experience Designer specializing in AI and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct DesignInformation Architecture

Other Skills

User ResearchUsability TestingHTMLPhotoshopWireframesUsability EngineeringSketchingUser-centered DesignInformation DesignWireframingUser Experience (UX)

Experience

Google deepmind

Lead Product Designer

Nov 2024Oct 2025 · 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Led UX vision for Gemini agentic experience, handpicked by the CEO for his Google I/O 2024 keynote, helping shape the strategic direction of Gemini’s AI Assistant.
  • Core member of the team that led design strategy for Gemini Deep Research feature, launched in 150+ countries and 45+ languages; with a design utility patent pending.
  • Designed multi-modal interactions for Gemini in Chrome Browser working closely with product, engineering, and model UX; launched to over 1B global users.
  • Drove system-level notifications framework adopted across Gemini teams.
  • Defined monetization UX strategy and vision for Gemini’s mobile experiences, aligning customer needs with business growth goals across iOS and Android.
  • Created foundational components and micro-interactions for the Gemini Design System, driving visual consistency and behavioral coherence across products.
User Experience DesignProduct DesignUser ResearchInformation ArchitectureUsability Testing

Google

2 roles

Senior Product Designer - Google Gemini

Jun 2022Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Core designer on the cross functional team that designed and launched the flagship Google Gemini apps (fka Bard) on iOS and Android.
  • Drove product strategy for context-aware AI interactions on Pixel, bridging cross-functional alignment between design, product, and engineering.
  • Led the end-to-end redesign of Google Assistant widgets on Android, improving usability, glanceability, and user engagement.
User Experience DesignProduct DesignUser Research

Senior Product Designer - Google Cloud

Feb 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led interaction and visual design for the new Google Cloud homepage, launched globally to all Google Cloud customers in 2022.
User Experience DesignProduct Design

Sprout by intuit

Co-founder & Design Lead - Sprout by Intuit

Jun 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Plano, Texas

  • Co-founded and led design for Sprout, a grassroots startup incubated within Intuit, focused on helping aspiring small business owners navigate the complexities of starting a business.
  • Raised $1.2M in internal funding after pitching a bold vision that uncovered a $1.6B opportunity for Intuit ’s small business ecosystem.
  • Applied Intuit’s Design for Delight (D4D) and Customer Driven Innovation (CDI) frameworks to uncover customer problems, explore broad solution spaces, and validate ideas through rapid experimentation.
  • Led both product design and go-to-market strategy.
User Experience DesignProduct DesignUser Research

Intuit

2 roles

Senior Product Designer

Promoted

Oct 2016May 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Designed and shipped delightful product experiences for CPAs and tax professionals across desktop, web, and mobile, improving workflow efficiency, and satisfaction.
  • Partnered closely with PM, Engineering, and Customer Support teams to identify pain points and deliver solutions that improved NPS and task completion rates.
  • Contributed to the evolution of Intuit ’s design language across professional tax products
  • Developed domain fluency in financial workflows, building empathy for Intuit ’s core customers and enabling better strategic product decisions.
User Experience DesignProduct DesignUser Research

Senior Interaction Designer

Dec 2014Sep 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Led design for Lacerte, Intuit’s flagship desktop tax software for professionals, improving core workflows and user efficiency.
  • Initiated and ran the “Design Booth” during internal hackathons, providing UX consulting and enabling cross-functional teams to bring customer-backed ideas to life.
User Experience DesignProduct Design

Cisco systems

User Experience Designer

Jan 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Designed user experiences for PayTV solutions at NDS India, later integrated into Cisco’s Video Technology Group following acquisition.
  • Published a paper on TV remote control usability outlining best practices.
User Experience Design

Althea systems

2 roles

User Experience Designer

Jul 2012Sep 2012 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Designed cross-platform experiences for Shufflr, a personalized video recommendation service available on mobile, tablet, desktop, and Facebook app.

User Experience Design Intern

Dec 2011Jun 2012 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Peepaldesign

Interaction Designer Intern

Apr 2010Sep 2010 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Truebook solutions

Software Engineer

Feb 2009Mar 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kozhikode, Kerala, India

  • Developed bookkeeping software tailored for small businesses in India, streamlining financial record-keeping and reporting.

Cyber prism limited

Software Engineer

Sep 2008Jan 2009 · 4 mos · Cochin Area, India

Sanspire

Founder

Aug 2007Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Kozhikode, Kerala, India

  • Founded and ran a product company that built inventory and operations management software for small businesses in India.

Education

National Institute of Design

Master of Design — Information & Interface Design

Jan 2010Jan 2012

SCMS School of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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