Marissa Mayer

Author: Stephan Salat

As Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, news, Google Earth, Google Desktop, Google Labs and more.

She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google's search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design.

Marissa has taught classes at Stanford, who has recognized her with the Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award.

Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA.

Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future") and Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream Team").

Graduating with honors, Marissa received an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

 

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