Sanjay G. Mavinkurve

Sanjay is Director of UX at Google. His team of designers, researchers, writers, engineers, and program managers, is responsible for the user experience of all Google Play products across Android, iOS, desktop and mobile web, watches, TVs, and more. The Google Play product family includes the Play Store, Play Movies and TV, Play Books, Play Games, as well as the developer-facing Google Play Console and Android Studio IDE.

Sanjay joined Google in 2003, and was a founding member of Google Maps for mobile, later leading its UX team for as the product grew to hundreds of millions of users. Sanjay has held UX leadership roles at Google X and YouTube.

Sanjay earned his undergraduate and Master's degrees, both in computer science, from Harvard University. He lives in Clyde Hill with his wife and 3 children.