Sri Jalasutram

Senior Principal Product Designer

2024 - Current

Re-imagining the future of live shared experiences

Sr. Design Manager - Google Search App

2021 - 2024

Led the product design team responsible for Google search experience on iPhone and iPad.

Staff Product Designer - Google search

2020 - 2021

Senior Design Lead - Courier experience

2019 - 2020

Envisioned the future of earning money on a unified Uber platform.

Design Lead - Design Systems + Accessibility & Inclusion

2018 - 2020

- Started the inclusive design practice within the Uber product team starting with a focus on accessibility - Developed inclusive design guidelines for the Uber brand and product. - Created the business case and measurement for product level changes into accessibility - Created a set of design components with built-in accessibility features and authored design system documentation to accompany them. - Ran workshops for designers, PM’s & engineers to factor in inclusion early in the design process.

Design Lead & Manager - Uber Lite

2017 - 2018

I led the team that designed Uber Lite - a simpler, faster and conversational ride sharing app designed for global audience. Lite went live in 30 countries and attracted an additional 3 million new users to Uber. Most of this growth was organic, word-of-mouth and didn’t use marketing dollars. As Lite grew, I scaled the design learnings to the rest of Uber’s product team and kickstarted an internal playbook for designing inclusive products. My contributions - Cofounding the team, securing resourcing & driving the overall product vision, user-facing value props & UX design. - Managing a cross-site design team in Bangalore and San Francisco. - Driving alignment between product, design, research and engineering, marketing leadership from conception, during experimentation, till launch and refinements.

Design Lead - Driver Experience & Payments

2015 - 2017

I helped build, lead and grow the international product design team at Uber over 2.5 years. My team was responsible for designing rider and driver facing experiences across India, China, South East Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. As a part of this role, I spent a considerable amount of time on the ground in these regions learning about cultural differences, tech infrastructure (maps and payments) and motivations for using Uber. Some of the features I helped design were - - Driver Onboarding & Referrals UX - Driver Earnings & Payments including Cash - POI based navigation for drivers and riders - Requesting Rides for Friends and Family For each of these features I was responsible for setting the product vision, leading on-the-ground research and designing the end-to-end experience globally.

Founding Designer

2014 - 2015

- Led a small team of creatives to invent new products for startups and global brands. - Partners included Microsoft, Gucci, Jawbone, Dolby, Hale Health, Zepp among others.

Senior Designer

2013 - 2014

- Helped design the UX of Aether Cone, a music player that anticipates what you want to listen to using voice input & machine learning.

Senior UX Designer - Jawbone UP

2011 - 2013

- Founding designer on Jawbone UP team, rated the best fitness app of 2012 - Led the design of physical & mobile app experiences such as Insights (eventually called Smart Coach) and Lifeline. - After UP, I led the UX design for the smart speaker, Mini Jambox and companion app.

Interaction Designer

2010 - 2011

- Designed & prototyped Sway, a patented wearable device that tracked people sitting still at work and prompted them to move at the right time. -Sway used haptic, visual and auditory cues, personalized to wearers age, weight, gender, and occupation etc.

Interaction Design Intern

2009 - 2010

- Helped design the UX of GE Nucleus, an internet connected device that helps people view, understand and control their home’s energy use. - In less than two years, we were able to take an idea from a sketch to a refined hardware product with embedded software service.

Interaction Design Intern

2009 - 2009

I designed interactive concepts for Collegeboard's SAT microsite, packaging for FusionBrands Foodpod line of kitchen products and SamuelMockbee.com Working with amazingly talented designers like Stefan Kjartansson, Farbod Kokabi and Kevin Byrd...was a great learning experience.

Communication Designer

2009 - 2009

Helped launch People of Resource, a design agency that specializes in product and communication design. Design its first brand identity and client pitches. Clients included Sopo Bicycle Co-operative and Roots Atlanta.