Aijia Yan

Leader in UX & front-end technologies at Google with over a decade of experience building products with 2 Billion MAU at Google. I have led ideation, product execution & delivery across a wide variety of platforms (Android & iOS) & surfaces: Google Maps & Local, Search & e-Commerce/Shopping. Some key highlights:

-Partnered with Policy, Engineering & Product to develop a massively scalable solution to rapidly integrating COVID testing centers and vaccination locations into Search and Maps. This reduced time to market & played a crucial role in public health efforts, globally! It also enabled Google to achieve significant business goals across multiple divisions for which I was awarded the CEO Award at Google!

-Lead a team of talented designers & product managers which is building the next generation user experience for shopping & discovery on Google surfaces like Search, Maps & Local. My work spans across end users & merchants on the platform and improves the quality of search journeys for billions of users across Web & Mobile surfaces.

-I led the development of Google App store in its early days, developing design & technology framework to support Millions of Apps on the platform & simplified the user journey & app development framework for App developers across a myriad of Android surfaces. Over the last 7 years, billions of App releases have happened on that framework which I helped put in place.

-My multi- cultural & multi-lingual background ( raised in China, worked for a few years in Japan & studied in US, fluent in 4 languages) has enabled me to successfully develop truly global solutions, while understanding local context & nuances at Google, where I routinely support product & design ideation across business units

My guiding principle is: ' Fall in love with the problems, not the solutions.'

With a background in engineering, I am not only committed to solving problems, but also deeply interested in understanding the underlying technologies and methodologies, and spend quite a bit of time advising startups on UX design & research.

When I'm not at work, you can find me indulging in various hobbies such as traveling, singing, playing table tennis, and exploring the fascinating world of gemology.