Spencer Syfrig

Workspace’s Land & Expand Strategy

Owned the free enterprise edition of Workspace optimizing the product for acquisition, adoption, and retention.

• Google Workspace Essentials

Workspace’s Hybrid Work Strategy

During the pandemic, we had to quickly address the realities of the way people work. We landed on making it easy to surface where you will be working from, exposing the information across Workspace surfaces, and indicating how you intend to join meetings.

• "Bridging the hybrid work gaps with Google Workspace" — Workspace Blog Post
• "Google Calendar will let you record where you’re working to help organize office meetings" — The Verge
• Google Calendar will soon let you share where you’re working from — 9to5 Google

Helping Users Take Control of Their Time

Creating awareness of how you spend your time is the first step towards taking ownership of your schedule. Led the design for a completely new panel and information source in Calendar to help users do this.

• "Google Calendar can show how much of your time is taken up by meetings" — Engadget
• "Google Calendar rolling out ‘Time Insights’ that show how much time you spend in meetings" — 9to5 Google
• "Back-to-back virtual calls? Google Calendar rolls out 'Time Insights' feature to track how much of your work time is spent in meetings" — Economic Times

Protecting Your Time to Get Work Done

Focus time is a new Calendar object that allows users to proactively block their time with the added benefits of blocking distractions and declining meetings.

• "Set aside time for focus in Google Calendar" — Workspace Blog Post
• "Google's new 'focus time' setting could help you duck that boring meeting" — ZDNet

Much Needed Feature for Educators

Breakout rooms was one of the top user needs as we shifted to remote education and work. We were brought in to build the feature in a new system and launched in record time.

• "Google launches Meet breakout rooms for small group discussions" — Engadget
• "Google Meet is getting breakout rooms, but only for some education customers to start" — The Verge

Keeping Teams on Track

Extended existing tasks product into a shared chat space in a new combined view in Gmail. Created new primitive that allowed for assigning, due dates, and ambient awareness of work.

Drive Integrations

We worked on many integrations to help meet users where they were: either in Drive or in another product. Highlights include Slack, Microsoft Office, Google Photos, and Chrome OS.

Growing a Company from $0 to $2,000,000,000

As a small startup and as the only designer, I was responsible for all design across marketing, campaign creation, and donating. While I was there, we facilitated over $2B in donations.