Parita Kapadia

Parita Kapadia

Product Design Leader

About

A short bio

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Staff UX Design Manager at YouTube
San Bruno, California
  • Managed a high-performing UX team that delivered multiple initiatives for 100 million Youth users, navigating complex regulatory landscapes.

  • Designed Supervised YouTube for tweens, achieving 80% retention and garnering praise from child development experts.

  • Defined research goals and streamlined team processes for effective PM/ENG collaboration and stakeholder approvals, launching new Parent Tools and various Responsibility features.

  • Drove company-wide commitment to Youth responsibility by crafting Youth Product & UX Guidelines, adopted by 100+ features across Youtube.

  • Guided team through design process: interpreting research, leading ideation, conducting reviews, collaborating across teams through final implementation. Provided career coaching for designers at all levels.

2018 — 2020
Senior Product Designer at YouTube
San Bruno, California
  • UX Lead for Creator initiative achieving 100X growth in successful channels within 2 years.

  • Developed product vision and delivered rapid prototypes for 10+ learning experiments in a fast-paced startup like environment.

  • Advocated to hire the team's first UX Researcher to effectively prioritize engineering resources, while upholding a user-centric approach.

  • Overcame organizational roadblocks by consistently promoting our product's unique narrative to executives, facilitating feature development across various YouTube surfaces.

2016 — 2018
Product Designer at Google
Mountain View, California
  • UX Lead for industry-first, ML powered Universal App Campaigns; generated $XB in revenue 2017.

  • Revamped Ads Preview to become the second most interacted feature, now embraced by all ML-based campaigns.

  • Secured funding for 3 UX-led feature proposals by initiating strategic relationships with the sales team.

  • 20% Project: Led a Design Sprint aimed at helping small businesses launch their first ad campaign. Product was adopted and launched by the Ads Emerging Markets team in 2018.

2013 — 2015
UX Designer at Microsoft, Windows 10
Seattle, Washington
  • Co-designed the adaptive Windows 10 UI system design for universal apps - that run across mobile, desktop, Xbox and blend both touch and mouse capabilities.

  • Designed the native Windows messaging app, enabling message relay to desktop via SMS and Skype.

2008 — 2013
Past Experience

Product Design Intern, Motorola Mobility • Chicago, IL
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Industrial Design Fundamentals, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Product Designer • Freedom Tree, Mumbai, India
Industrial Designer, Ergoform • Bangalore, India
Design Research Associate, Nokia • Pune, India

Volunteering

2016 — 2024
Trainer & Mentor at Google Sprint Leadership Academy
Mountain View, California

Speaking

2020
Guiding the Conversation: Facilitating Product Strategy with Senior Stakeholders at Google Sprint Leadership Academy: Virtual Tools Series
San Francisco, CA
2018
Design for Trust in Machine Learning at Google UXU
Stockholm, Sweden
2017
Design for Trust in Machine Learning at Google UXU
Sunnyvale, CA
2017
Decoding Design: A Front-End Engineer's Guide at Google Ads Front End Summit
Los Angeles, CA
2015
Break into UX: Panel at General Assembly
Seattle, WA
2014
Quick & Dirty Design Methods for Hackathons at Startup Weekend Edu
Seattle, WA

Contact

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