YouTube

Role: Head of UX Design, YouTube Creation and GenAI.

Managing team of 30 FTEs across interaction design, visual design, UX engineering, content design, art direction, and technical art. Budget: $XM annual opex budget in agency engagements and vendor resourcing.

Launches

2025

All generative AI creation features at YouTube:

• YouTube Shorts AI Playground, a new surface dedicated to scaling AI modalities. Demo

• Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast in YouTube Shorts. Demo

• Speech to song in YouTube Shorts. Demo

• Edit with AI (AI montage in YouTube Shorts and YouTube Create). Demo

• First launch of Google Deep Mind’s Veo model (image2video) in YouTube Shorts “Dream Screen”. Demo

• Dream Track AI (text2music) in YouTube Creator Studio.

• Open prompt image2image effect creation in Effect Maker.

Effect Maker, YouTube’s web-based AR/AI effect making platform for YouTube camera surfaces.

YouTube Create, iOS.

YouTube Create Templates and Home redesign, Android & iOS. Demo

Creation tools in YouTube Shorts

AR camera effects in YouTube Live.

2024

Dream Soundtrack AI in YouTube Create.

First image2image camera effects in YouTube Shorts. Demo, demo

First on-device AI camera effects in YouTube Shorts.

YouTube Create: Transitioned full-stack UX team from US to Bangalore, India, hiring and managing remotely.

2023

Dream Screen T2I and T2V in YouTube Shorts. Demo

Dream Track AI Text2Music and Style Transfer in YouTube Shorts. Demo

YouTube Create, video editing app (Android only), the first standalone YouTube app since YouTube Music.

2022

Effect picker and camera effects in YouTube Shorts. Demo