AI product lead at Google. Previously at Covariant, Meta, and Microsoft. Independent AI projects and large-scale light art.

Oliver Newth — AI Product Lead at Google

About

Oliver Newth is an AI product lead at Google, developing AI platforms that integrate DeepMind models into production software. He previously worked at Covariant, Meta, and Microsoft, and holds an MEng from MIT (Kennedy Scholar).

Experience

Google - AI Product Lead (2025 to present)

Product development for AI platforms that integrate DeepMind models into production software.

Covariant - Staff Product Manager (2022 – 24)

Product work on computer vision for warehouse robotics.

Meta - Product Manager (2017 – 22)

Ran video calling across Instagram and Portal; before that, core growth and integrity. Meta Build Social Value Award, 2020.

Microsoft - Product Manager, Azure (2014 – 17)

Product on Azure Cognitive Services; the job was getting enterprises to trust AI enough to adopt it.

Education

MEng in High Performance Structures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Kennedy Scholar). Civil Engineering, First Class, University of Warwick.

Expertise

Oliver builds and operates independent projects with coding agents. These projects are separate from his work at Google.

  • AI Product Strategy
  • GenAI Platforms
  • Autonomous Coding Agents
  • Trust & Safety Systems
  • Robotics and Automation

Creative Work

Oliver builds large-scale light installations. THEM — Lighting and Circle of Light ring. Design: Simón Malvaez. Fabrication: Brenden Blaine Darby. Fractured Atlas. Black Rock City, Nevada, 2022. Pink Triangle — Project coordination as part of Illuminate on Patrick Carney’s Pride memorial. Twin Peaks, San Francisco, 2022. Circle of Light — World AIDS Day memorial for the National AIDS Memorial. AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco, 2021.