Nikhil George

About Nikhil George

I turn frontier AI into everyday products people love. Currently building GenAI creation at Google Photos, shipping 0→1 surfaces that drive massive consumer engagement. Double‑digit millions have saved AI creations - now roughly 40–50% of all saves.At Google Photos, founding PM for Creativity: launched Remix, Create with AI, Photo to Video, and Personalized Templates; delivered double‑digit top‑of‑funnel growth and single‑digit mid‑funnel growth in the first six months. Built and led a 40‑person cross‑functional team; ran senior director–level product reviews and portfolio decisions. Recognized with the Platforms & Devices Tech Impact Excellence award. Press coverage in The Verge, TechCrunch, and official Google blogs. A top‑five GenAI media usage driver at Google by QPS.Previously in Google Search, scaled the Actions framework across Images, Web, and AI Overviews—now touching ~90% of global queries. Shipped Actions on Image and revamped google.com/saved and Collections, improving engagement and metadata coverage, while driving a double‑digit international latency reduction. Recognized among the top growth drivers in Search in 2023.Earlier, at MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative (Project Hamilton with the Boston Fed), co‑authored work on programmability in CBDCs. At VideaHealth (Series A), piloted an AI‑powered dental claims tool with insurers. Started at McKinsey, guiding a subscription pivot covering roughly 40% of revenue for a $1.5B ARR data platform, building a geospatial electrification tool scaled to ~2M households in Zambia, and securing a multi‑million grant to expand workforce programs in Kenya.MIT MBA + Harvard MPA. I ship 0→1, scale what works, and keep tinkering on side projects like OptSpot—a lightweight micro‑tool that optimizes meetup discovery in big cities!

Experience

1. Product Manager Photos Genai Creativity and Editing

   Google

   Jan 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Founding PM for Google Photos’ Creativity portfolio, steering the product from storage utility to everyday creation now used by a low teens percent share of MAUs and growing faster than overall actives- Took multiple GenAI creation surfaces from 0→1—“Create” tab and “Remix”—establishing program, metrics, instrumentation, and experimentation; drove tens of millions of MAUs to save via creativity tools, with GenAI now accounting for roughly 40–50% of all saves- Led a scaled go-to-market as product lead with Marketing: a large, multi-channel global campaign reaching ~900M impressions,+31% follower growth, and 6 creator partnerships producing 30+ videos- Won the Platforms and Devices Tech Impact Excellence award—one of 16 winners from 96 submissions across a 26k-person org- Built and led a cross-functional team of 40 engineers, 4 designers, 1 data scientist, and 2 UXRs; partnered with design vendors; and ran regular VP-level product reviews and portfolio decisions- Drove seasonal and culturally relevant growth with a holiday-based roadmap in strategic markets (e.g, Diwali, Eid, Christmas, Halloween), establishing a repeatable freshness model for sustained engagement- Architected an LLM-powered Smart Picker using RAG to auto-select optimal photos for AI generation, lifting mid-funnel conversion by ~8 percentage points- Spearheaded the integration of Nanobanana 1 and Nanobanana 2 models; launched 13 GenAI templates, including first-to-market personalization-powered experiences; secured compute for a 70+ template global scale-out and completed complex Responsible AI and Child Safety reviews (including U18)- Engineered an autonomous agent to automate prompt mining, model evaluation, and RAI testing (Dec 2025 Hackweek winner); accelerated the NB2 Batch 1 pipeline from 17 to 48 templates with fewer engineers and faster cycle time

Education

• Harvard University

  Master of Public Administration - MPA

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering