Stacey Sasaki

Head of UX for Procurement & Legal Engineering

New York, New York, United States

About

Passionate about lifelong learning, examining the ways people think and behave, and seeing research morph into products that improve people’s lives and experiences.

Experience

  • Google (10 yrs 7 mos)
    • UX Manager
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      UX Manager leading design for Google Legal and Procurement tooling.

    • Senior Staff UX Research Manager
      Nov 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

      UX Research Manager for Google Play with a focus on Monetization, Google Play Services, and Privacy.

    • User Experience Manager
      Jan 2018 - Apr 2024 · 6 yrs 4 mos

      UX Lead in Corporate Engineering - Legal and Compliance Currently managing 5 UX Researchers & 2 UX Designers across 5 sub-teams. Leading UX for two sub-teams including 3 UXRs and 4 UXDs.

  • Columbia Business School (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Adjunct Assistant Professor
      Jul 2014 - May 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Courses taught: Managerial Negotiations (B7510/B8510) for MBA/Executive MBA students.

    • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
      Sep 2013 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Conducting fundamental research on gender, diversity, status, and power relations within and outside of organizations.

  • Project Manager at AnswerLab
    Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 · 5 mos

  • Associate Consultant at VallotKarp Consulting LLC
    Apr 2014 - Oct 2014 · 7 mos

    Research related to diversity and inclusion, qualitative survey analysis, presentation creation and editing.

  • University of Manitoba (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Instructor
      Sep 2010 - Aug 2013 · 3 yrs

    • Graduate Researcher
      Sep 2007 - Jun 2013 · 5 yrs 10 mos

      Created, executed, and analyzed several quantitative and qualitative studies to examine barriers that block effective communication between higher and lower status individuals and groups in society. Identification of best practices for overcoming these issues. Research culminating in nine co-authored scientific publications and 14 research presentations at professional conferences.

    • Lab Manager
      2007 - 2013 · 6 yrs

      Supervised and mentored students and research assistants. Involved in recruiting, interviewing, training, experiment setup.