Neel Saswade

I’m a product designer based in San Francisco. Currently, I’m a designer at Glean working on proactivity, artifacts, and growth. Previously, I designed at Snap.

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Work

Proactive Intelligence at Glean

2026Glean
Proactive drafts for Google Docs, Slack, and email

I led design for Glean’s proactive intelligent experience. The challenge was making AI feel helpful before a user even asked, without becoming noisy or distracting. We explored how relevance, timing, and context could turn proactive suggestions into useful starting points for getting work done.

Redesigning the Glean homepage

2026Glean
Glean Company Corner panel with announcements and agents
Respond to Frank about Glean’s pricing planNatasha Petrova’s three-year work anniversaryActive discussion on Growth Q4 OKRsCompany announcement: paid vacation holidaysDesign team weekly meetingMention in Growth Achievements Q1Suggested task: update a Salesforce opportunityMeeting recap: US Design Team CritiqueTrending: FY2027 Company GoalsSuggested task: respond to pull request comments

I led design and product strategy for a redesign of the Glean homepage to make it more AI-forward and drive usage of Glean Assistant. We moved from a traditional intranet-style homepage to a starting point that helped people move work forward.

Artifacts

2026Glean
Glean chat alongside an editable document artifact
Describe your edit toolbar with AI editing and formatting controls
Gmail artifact draftSlack artifact draftOutlook artifact draft

I led design for Artifacts, helping Glean expand from answering questions to helping people create finished work. We designed an AI-native editing and collaboration experience for documents, slides, and other outputs, and grew the product from an early concept into a widely used part of Glean (200k+ weekly active users)

Growth at Glean

2025Glean
Welcome to Glean onboarding screenStart every tab with Glean extension onboarding screenBookmark Glean onboarding screen
Glean getting-started checklist with completed and suggested onboarding tasks

I spent two years designing for Growth as Glean scaled from 25K to 1M weekly active users. We constantly experimented with onboarding and activation, finding the right ways to help new users understand Glean’s value and build the right mental model within their first few moments with the product.

Web3 at Snapchat

2022Snap

At Snapchat, I spent my time on two projects: Treasure, a consumer app that used Snap’s AR kit to let people bring their NFT collections into the real world, and a feature to bring NFTs as lenses inside the core Snapchat app (TechCrunch article).