Christian Ervin

Head of Product Design at Glean

San Francisco Bay Area

About

UX Design & Product Innovation.

Experience

  • Head of Product Design at Glean
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Head of Design and Product at iyo
    May 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    IYO is a Google X spinout reinventing the computer in light of advances in AI. As Head of Design, I lead user experience, including defining an entirely novel Auditory User Interface, as well as overseeing industrial design and brand.

  • Senior Staff UX Design Manager (Google X) at Google
    Sep 2018 - Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Product strategy and design leadership for Alphabet's moonshot portfolio. Managed multi-disciplinary teams of software and hardware designers, user researchers, prototypers, and business strategists. Led the design of MVP software for Mineral, Tidal, many other Google X projects.

  • Tellart (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Global Design Director
      Mar 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      As Design Director at Tellart, I led diverse teams of engineers, designers, and researchers to imagine, prototype, and develop early product prototypes and interactive experiences, with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies (e.g. machine learning in consumer applications) and complex systems (e.g. the future of a gulf state). Our work was featured in international publications and received numerous awards, including the 2016 National Design Award in Interaction Design from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

    • Design Lead
      Aug 2014 - Feb 2015 · 7 mos

    • Creative Technologist
      Oct 2013 - Jul 2014 · 10 mos

  • Project Manager, Adaptive Living Environments at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
    Jun 2013 - Oct 2013 · 5 mos