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Marissa Mayer is Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google, leading the product management efforts on Google's search products: web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more.

Formerly director of Consumer Web Products and the technical lead for the user-interface team, she has spearheaded almost every user-interface change to Google's website in the past several years. She has also internationalized Google's interface and led much of the UI design and development effort, including establishing user testing. Several patents have been filed on her work.

At the same time, Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford University to over 3,000 students and has received both the Centennial teaching award and the Forsythe award for outstanding contribution to undergraduate education. Before joining Google in 1999, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and SRI International in Menlo Park, CA.

Marissa received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford.

Last updated: March 13, 2009.

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Marissa Ann Mayer
Born May 30, 1975 (1975-05-30) (age 34)
Wausau, Wisconsin
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupation Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google

Marissa Ann Mayer (born on 30 May 1975) is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. She acts as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google product is ready to be released to users. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.[1]

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Education and career

She received her B.S. in Symbolic systems, graduating with honors, and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree honoring her pathfinding work in the field of search.[2]

Mayer was the one of the first female engineers hired at Google and one of their first 20 employees, joining the company in early 1999. Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

She is known for her appreciation of cupcakes.

UI & Design Work

Mayer has notable public involvement with Google Search and Gmail, and can be considered significantly responsible for the success of these UIs. Fortune magazine lists her as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world and the youngest woman ever to make the list. She is credited with shaping the design of Google Maps, Google Earth, iGoogle, and more.[3]

References

  1. ^ Laura Holson, "Putting a Bolder Face on Google", New York Times, 1 March 2009, page BU-1
  2. ^ "50. Marissa Mayer". IIT Media Room. 2009-03-25. http://www.iit.edu/departments/pr/mediaroom/article_viewer_db.php?articleID=360. Retrieved 2009-05-16. 
  3. ^ "50. Marissa Mayer". CNNMoney.com. 2008-10-16. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.women_mostpowerful.fortune/50.html. Retrieved 2009-05-13. 

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