Monika Pawlak · Product designer for AI

Monika Pawlak

Hi, I’m Monika. Designing for AI since we called it ML, from 0 to 1.

CV

  1. Miro Senior Product Designer 2026–current

    Start from a skill, never from an empty board.

    See agents working on the canvas like collaborators.

    Designed the new human-agent collaboration experience for Miro, used by 100M+ users

    My work was presented on stage by our CPTO and Head of Design at Miro’s biggest yearly release event

    Designed the voice-to-voice experience

    Explored the next vision for Miro

    Collaborate with agents like with humans, in a multiplayer canvas.

    Get Miro to facilitate and present for you.

    Rewired how Miro designs and ships in the AI era

    Her GitHub contribution chart from Feb 2026 to Oct 2026: 1899 contributions, near enough all of them since she joined Miro

    Merged 56+ PRs into production in my first six months

    Three people working at a table in a Miro workshop, the personas they are designing for named on the wall behind them
  2. McKinsey Senior Product Designer 2023–2026
    Stay in control of where data is pulled from

    Led design for Lilli’s agents, used by 20k consultants a month.

    Understand the work AI is doing behind the scenes

    Made agent setups reusable, and agent users came back 33% more often.

    Reuse chat presets to kick-start work faster

    Established a continuous research effort, bringing insights from 100+ users straight into roadmap planning.

    Assign an identity so you can find your Agents fast
  3. Google X Founding designer 2020–2023

    I was a founding designer for a few early-stage climate AI start-ups.

    Designed a livestream monitoring tool for earthquake detection

    My work directly helped win first paying customers and bring in $10M+ in funding across teams.

    Designed a forecasting tool for pest population outbreaks, to help move from reactive to preventive farming
    Monika showing a laptop to three growers standing under the trees in an almond orchard

    I also dipped my toes in hardware and remote sensing.

    Designed urban wildlife monitoring hubs, which we filed a design patent for.
    A patent drawing of the trap: cameras over stacked trays, with sensors, a battery, a controller and a link to the network
  4. Architecture Architect 2017–2021

    Before tech, I designed spatial experiences.

    A corrugated and translucent building standing over a courtyard of olive trees
    Hyperkatoikia: a section cut through shared housing, flats either side and people on the walkways between them

    I also built interactive prototypes with Arduino and sensors.

    A crocheted rope sleeve tied around a plane tree, two people working on it in the courtyard

Why Monika

Because it makes sense

  • Building is how I design, lead, and bring people with me.
  • Design from our DNA, and don’t chase copying competitors.
  • Building in public (or in your Slack) to drive the hype from the start.
  • Working hands-on in code, to do the final polish myself in production.