Her Story
About Swati
Swati Iyer is a Staff Technical Program Manager at Google, where she leads the Meet Intelligence organization with a focus on AI-first innovation, product growth, and large-scale collaboration systems. Based in Kirkland, Washington, she drives strategic initiatives that enhance real-time communication experiences across Google Meet, including AI-powered features, monetization strategies, and productivity enhancements within Google Workspace. She is known for bridging technical execution with business strategy to deliver scalable, user-centric product outcomes.
In her current role at Google, Swati leads cross-functional teams responsible for building intelligent, AI-driven experiences that improve meeting productivity, accessibility, and collaboration at global scale. She has played a key role in launching AI-enabled features, expanding product adoption, and developing new revenue-generating SKUs tailored to distinct user segments. Her work spans product strategy, execution, and operational excellence, partnering closely with engineering, UX, and leadership teams to deliver impactful solutions used by millions of users worldwide.
Prior to Google, Swati spent over six years at Microsoft as a Technical Product Manager, where she contributed to Azure infrastructure, data center operations, and enterprise tooling focused on reliability and performance at scale. She also held program leadership roles in enterprise transformation and cloud operations, building a strong foundation in systems thinking and large-scale distributed platforms. With a background in engineering and an MBA in Finance from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Swati brings a unique combination of technical depth, business acumen, and leadership experience to her work in driving next-generation AI and collaboration technologies.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Swati
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would say there is no substitute for hard work. At any given time, if you are committing to work, ensure to have a prioritization system of business critical elements and a discipline built in to solve those. In the long run, dedication towards your goals and a never-give-up attitude are essential. You have to keep pushing forward and stay committed to what you're trying to achieve.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Choose difficult problems to solve, because that will give you access to people who like difficult problems, who bring different tools and you will learn different thinking systems to solve it. It also gives you a morale boost when you achieve solving a difficult problem. Working on complex challenges helps you build relationships with innovative thinkers and creates opportunities that wouldn't exist if you only tackled easy problems.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Do not be afraid to speak up. Every person has a voice on the table, and if there is a chair in the meeting room which is at the center of the room, go and grab it. You have a valuable perspective to contribute, so take your seat confidently and make sure your voice is heard. Don't hold back or wait for permission - claim your space and participate fully in the important conversations.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The one opportunity I would call out is that AI can make technological changes at breakneck speed. However, the core of leadership still remains the same, because it is, at the end of the day, about how you break down complex chaos into actionable, human-centered progress. Getting AI into the right space or achieving the right results requires a lot of human-centeredness and effort. The industry is thinking that AI will replace humans, but actually we have more work created for humans with AI - the work being created is just more strategic than tactical. Folks perceive AI as a threat, but I perceive AI as an opportunity to make our lives better. We will have more work generated, it's just a different era. Like we had the internet boom, then e-commerce, then mobile, and now the AI boom. Every boom results in different flavors of products that make our life better. I believe AI is going to do something similar to how mobile technology transformed our ability to communicate and share location, but we are yet to see exactly what it is going to do.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I'm a very transparent person in general, so I like putting things very clearly. In any aspect of challenge, I like it to be very clearly spoken out, so transparency is one value that I practice. Second is that I believe in ethical practices. Third I deeply value the people part in work on any given day. Having the human connection and being ethical and doing what is right is important for me. These three values - transparency, ethics, and human connection - guide everything I do both professionally and personally.
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