Karthika Periyathambi

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States14 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Pioneered YouTube's generative AI strategy.
  • Led cross-functional teams of over 150 professionals.
  • Recipient of BITSAA 30 Under 30 Award for Leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in AI-driven B2C content creation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAi IntegrationAi StrategyProduct DevelopmentLocation TargetingAnalyticsDigital StrategyMarket AnalysisStrategic PartnershipsRtl DesignHardware EngineeringDesign OptimizationTeam CoordinationDesign ImplementationVerificationPost-silicon ValidationGpu TechnologyDatabase ManagementAlgorithm DesignTeachingGradingResearchDesign AnalysisTestingFpga Design

Other Skills

AIMachine LearningMedia CreationPrivacy PolicyTech StackRTL CodingVerilogJavaMixed SignalC++CVHDLEmbedded SystemsComputer ArchitectureFPGA

About

Product Leader with 12+ years of experience driving transformative AI innovation and hyper-growth across Google and YouTube. Pioneered YouTube's generative AI strategy from 0-to-1, defining the vision and roadmap for industry-first features like Dream Track and AI Remix, which have fundamentally reshaped the future of content creation for millions. Proven track record of leading 150+ person cross-functional organizations, scaling products from inception to $Billions in revenue impact, and influencing corporate strategy at the highest executive levels. Recipient of BITSAA 30 Under 30 Award for Leadership

Experience

14 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Google

3 roles

Head of Product, Shorts Consumption & AI | YouTube

Promoted

Dec 2025Present · 4 mos

  • I lead the Product organization for YouTube Shorts Consumption & AI, where we are reimagining the future of entertainment for over 2 billion people, and spearheading the integration of Gen AI and advanced ML models into the "Viewer World" to redefine how users discover, interact with, and consume short-form content. My team of Product Managers are responsible for the 'Shorts Viewer World'—the engine that powers 200 billion daily views and defines the next generation of the video experience.
Product ManagementAI Integration

Group Product Manager @ YouTube (AI Lead for Shorts Creation)

Promoted

Nov 2020Feb 2026 · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Product lead for AI Creation Tools, Media Creation, Remix, and Templates at YouTube Shorts. Pioneered YouTube's GenAI strategy for Shorts Creation, defining the vision and roadmap for first-of-its-kind features like Dream Track & AI Remix. Steered YT's most complex & strategic AI initiatives like Edit with AI, shaping the future of AI-powered content creation for millions of users. Led multiple strategic x-PA time-sensitive complex bets like 3min Shorts & Music Remix, featured in 200+ media global articles
AI StrategyProduct Development

Product Manager, Google Ads Location Targeting

Aug 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Lead Product Manager for Location Targeting: policies, privacy, tech-stack and customer-interface across Search and Display Ads. Contributed to $$$M projects and user-first privacy policy enabling launches.
Product ManagementLocation Targeting

Mckinsey & company

Summer Associate

Apr 2017Aug 2017 · 4 mos · Silicon Valley and Mumbai Area, India

  • Led Analytics organizational health transformation across 40 casino and hotel properties for leading hospitality client
  • Drove digital strategy for invoice discounting and SME credit lending for FinTech Client
  • Led initiative to accelerate loan disbursal rate by 10x with specific focus on SME lending across India
AnalyticsDigital Strategy

Jio

Corporate Strategy Intern

Mar 2017Apr 2017 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Designed market entry strategy for Reliance's niche product to target 100M + rural consumers
  • Conducted market analysis interviewing 100+ distributors and retailers across rural Maharashtra to identify potential partners and channels
  • Architected strategic partnership initiatives for launching Reliance Jio 4G VoLTE smart feature phones and performed cost-benefit analysis for each alliance
Market AnalysisStrategic Partnerships

Google

Hardware Engineer, 20% Product Manager

Aug 2014Aug 2016 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California

  • Summary:
  •  Spearheaded RTL design for confidential H/W products in ~$8B critical market of Android, Chromebook and Data Centers
  •  Saved ~$2M for Google’s proprietary SOCs by achieving golden prototype in first production launch; Patent pending
  •  Evaluated market designs for VR (virtual reality) devices, accelerating cost optimizations by ~10x for electronic integrations
  •  Created fully executable multi-cached Virtual Memory with higher Prefetch hits in quick 3 months’ time from scratch
  •  Orchestrated architectural design, verification and post-Silicon validation for Cloud Security project with team of 10+ experts
  •  Initiated and led team of 7 PhDs to achieve 100% Lint clean design, effecting on-time delivery of Testable product to customers
  •  Hired as the youngest designer in unit of 150 experts; promoted within 1st year. Received multiple Spot Bonuses and Peer Award
  •  Mentored aspiring girls and minority students through Google for Education initiatives; Speaker at multiple Career Panels
  •  Coordinated Govt. delegates and Media for Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Google visit; represented Google at National Interviews
  • Technical Summary:
  • Lead designer for critical components in Android Hardware Team : Cloud Security and Image Processing projects.
  • Actively participated in FPGA emulation, Setting up digital CAD tool flow, Design verification and Post Silicon debugging.
  • Documented the Architecture; coordinated agreement with the verification team and external customers.
  • Implemented the design in RTL,integrated the blocks into the main base along with its analog counterpart, Performed design verification and critical bug fixes during Post Silicon debugging
RTL DesignHardware Engineering

Intel corporation

2 roles

Senior Design Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013Aug 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • Summary:
  •  Designed and optimized Power-Area to 8x Performance/Watt and 22% transistor reduction for Intel’s Knight Landings project and USA’s next Supercomputer Aurora and Trinity- 8 billion transistor chip yielding stupendous performance of 6TeraFlops
  •  Coordinated team of 40+ verification, backend and arch across sites (PDX, SC, Barcelona) to resolve critical timing paths by 50%
  •  Awarded Knights Armor for saving 6-month market launch delay of High Performance Computing Xeon-Phi Processors
  •  Received Excellence Award for innovating Hybrid Instruction Decoder Architecture facilitating high Performance/Watt model at 1.5 GHz frequency, two-way Superscalar architecture with 38% area reduction; patent pending and fast-tracked promotion
  •  Organized knowledge sharing sessions with Skylake and Knights-Hill project managers to boost cross-product compatibility
  •  Served as Creative Chair and Lead-Choreographer, Intel India Employee Group, 2013-14 and Manam-Visweta Fundraiser Events
  • Technical Summary:
  • Optimized the power-area consumption for threaded new-AVX supportive hybrid decoder and geared the product for timely tapeout release.
  • Conducted in-depth spec analysis and RTL coding for Instruction Decoder Unit
  • Served as designer for core strategies in Front End of Xeon Phi - next generation (Knight's Landing Product)
  • Optimizated timing critical speed paths along with power and area.
  • Coordinated verification for the above-mentioned blocks with Lintra, CDC tool and coverage check
  • Led cross-site coordination across Barcelona' Architecture Team, Hillsboro's Verification and Santa Clara's BackEnd Teams
Design OptimizationTeam Coordination

Component Design Engineer

Jun 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • Led designing and implementation for Branch Predictor Algorithm
  • Developed alternate algorithm for timing crunched decoder paths
  • Designer for core strategies in Intel's Knight's Landing Project
  • Actively contributed to verification and debugging for the Front End blocks.
Design ImplementationVerification

Nvidia

Design Intern

Jun 2010Sep 2010 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California

  • Summary:
  • Actively contributed to Post-silicon Validation and BringUp of GPU chips under different PVT corners.
  • Details:
  • Post Silicon Validation and Bringup of Notebook GPU chip.
  • PLL Qual, Spread spectrum and Spread Qual under PVT variations.
Post-Silicon ValidationGPU Technology

Insead business school

Project Trainee and Intern

Jan 2009Jun 2009 · 5 mos · Fontainebleau, France

  • Summary:
  • Designed database models for analyzing open-end funds & implemented parent-company-match algorithms.
  • Details:
  • Under the guidance of Prof Massimo Massa, Rothschild Professor of Banking.
  • Analysis of open end funds and database management of parent companies.
  • Counter check of datasets obtained from matching algorithm processing.
Database ManagementAlgorithm Design

Birla institute of technology and science, pilani

Professional (Teaching) Assistant

Jul 2008Dec 2008 · 5 mos · Pilani

  • For the course of Microelectronic Circuits under the guidance of Dr. Anu Gupta, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics, BITS-Pilani.
  • Tutored undergraduate students with course work and assignments.
  • Graded assignments and lab tests and prepared questions.
  • In addition, Assisted Dr.Borris Murman to grading several Analog courses at Stanford University, 2009-2011.
TeachingGrading

Hardware intern

Cosmic Circuits

May 2008Aug 2008 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Summary:
  • Researched on industrial ADC designs and submitted recommendations for adoption of CT Sigma-Delta model.
  • Details:
  • Interned with Analog Design Group
  • Analysis of Continuous Sigma Delta Modulation and present trends in Industry.
  • Designed and modeled one general model using Octave and LT spice.
ResearchDesign Analysis

Bhabha atomic research centre

Summer Intern

Jun 2007Jul 2007 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Testing of High Speed ADC add on card using FPGA and Verilog.
  • Debugged FPGA cards and Verilog drivers for real-time failures.
TestingFPGA Design

Education

The Wharton School

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Stanford University

Master's degree — Electrical Engineering (Computer Architecture and Digital VLSI)

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Maharaja Agrasen Vidyalaya

High School

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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