Summary
Micah Laaker is a founding product designer and design leader with 16 years of experience and a 25-year track record of making complex systems feel simple at scale, including 11 years at Google where he served 8 years as Director of UX and led teams of 80+ across four global sites. As the first designer in Google’s Office of the CEO and the only non-engineer to lead two company-wide technical governance programs, he blends executive influence with deep product craft to align cross-company design, privacy, and AI infrastructure. Currently at Across AI, he shapes agentic AI for enterprise sales by fusing institutional memory, always-on agents, and pragmatic integrations to speed revenue workflows. He also advises climate startups through his consultancy Sedapa and contributes to nonprofit efforts to make electrification and renewables more accessible. A comics enthusiast and former marketplace/product leader (Graphicly), he brings unusual breadth—from identity infrastructure and usable security to storytelling-driven consumer products—to climate tech and AI tooling. Based in Mountain View with roots in Nebraska, he’s known for translating organizational complexity into adoptable systems and compelling product narratives.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas