Karthik Narayan

Karthik Narayan is a product design leader at Amazon, where he leads creative vision and design direction for agentic experiences within the company's advertising platforms. His work focuses on end-to-end product strategy, interaction design, and systems thinking, shaping complex digital products at scale. Previously, Narayan held senior and staff design leadership roles at Meta and Microsoft, where he led multidisciplinary teams across cloud services, enterprise platforms, and advertising technologies. With professional experience spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, Narayan brings a global perspective grounded in architecture, strategic product design, and user-centered systems. Earlier in his career, he worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab, exploring intersections of design, technology, and urban systems, and has contributed to projects in mobility, automation, and emerging platforms.