Google - AI Product Lead
Platforms that put Google DeepMind models into products.
Oliver Newth — AI Product Lead at Google
About
Oliver Newth is an AI product lead at Google, building platforms that put Google DeepMind models into products. He previously built product at Covariant (acquired by Amazon), Meta, and Microsoft, and holds an MEng from MIT (Kennedy Scholar).
Experience
Covariant - Staff Product Manager
Took computer vision from research demos to warehouse floors running 24/7, through Amazon's acquisition of the team in 2024.
Meta - Product Manager
Ran video calling across Instagram and Portal; before that, core growth and integrity. Meta Build Social Value Award, 2020.
Microsoft - Product Manager, Azure
Product on Azure Cognitive Services (100M+ API requests a day), writing the playbook for enterprise AI adoption: trust as the thing being shipped.
Education
MEng in High Performance Structures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Kennedy Scholar). Civil Engineering, First Class, University of Warwick.
Expertise
Oliver works across GenAI platforms, autonomous coding agents, robotics, and trust and safety systems. A standing team of coding agents ships and maintains his five live products.
- AI Product Strategy
- GenAI Platforms
- Autonomous Coding Agents
- Trust & Safety Systems
- Robotics and Automation
Creative Work
Oliver builds large-scale light installations: Circle of Light, a World AIDS Day memorial in Golden Gate Park; lighting on the 30-foot sculpture THEM at Burning Man with artist Simon Malvaez; and LED crew on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle with Illuminate.