Nitika
Bhatia

Storyteller, operator, and builder. I find the human being inside complex systems — and make you feel it.

"Storytelling is not a skill I learned.
It is how I think."

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I have spent my career at the intersection of complexity and human experience — translating what is invisible, technical, or overlooked into something people can feel, remember, and act on.

From Google's global security operations to a men's med spa, a chai and baking brand, and three children's books in progress — every project is a story waiting to be told with intention.

Selected Work
01

Hacking Google

Documentary · Google · 2022

EP002 features my team — Detection and Response, the people keeping billions of users safe every day. I helped shape the narrative behind the program: how we talked about the work, who we were, and why it mattered. Translating invisible, high-stakes labor into something the world could understand and feel proud of.

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Leela's Kitchen

Brand & Content Strategy · Founder · 2024–Present

A food and ritual brand built around cozy home flavors with royal history. Chai, golden milk, rose cardamom shortbread, gulab jamun cake, khichdi spice blends — each product carries a story. Brand voice, content strategy, and ritual-driven marketing designed from scratch. The narrative is as essential as what's in the jar.

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Hero Men's Med Spa

Experience Design · Co-Founder · June 2025–Present

Personalized, science-backed men's wellness — not a bro spa. Designed the full patient experience from intake to follow-up. Built AI-powered workflows for patient onboarding, physician coordination, and communication. Developing the brand narrative to differentiate in a commoditized market where most competitors lead with bravado, not care.

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Detection & Response at Scale

Program Narrative · Google · 2020–2024

Led narrative strategy for a global security organization of 250+ engineers. Produced global all-hands, leadership briefings, and quarterly forums that gave 500+ people clarity, context, and community during a pandemic. Developed election threat mitigation playbooks deployed across product teams. Storytelling under pressure, at scale.

Anchor Work

Hacking
Google

In 2022, Google released a six-part documentary series about the teams that keep billions of users safe. EP002 was Detection and Response — my team, my world, my eight years.

My work was to make the invisible visible: to take extraordinarily complex, high-stakes security operations and translate them into something a human being could feel connected to. That program became a film. That is what I do.

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8
Years inside one of the world's most complex security organizations — finding the story every day.
"The work was to find the human being inside the machine — and make you feel it. Every briefing, every town hall, every playbook was a story waiting to be told with intention."

Leela's
Kitchen

Cozy home flavors with royal rituals. A food and wellness brand rooted in Ayurvedic tradition, cultural history, and the kind of recipes that become memory.

Every product carries a story — where it comes from, why it matters, what festival it belongs to, what it heals. The fragrance, the ritual, the balance. This is food as narrative.

Masala Chai Golden Milk Herbal Digestive Tea Khichdi Spice Blend Rose Cardamom Shortbread Kaju Katli Shortbread Gulab Jamun Cake
Publishing Arm — In Progress

Tales from
the Tiffin

A children's book series highlighting Indian recipes, their history, and the festivals and ingredients that give them meaning. Written so the next generation learns, remembers, and stays connected to the culture they carry.

Stories tied to turmeric, to Diwali, to the smell of ghee on a winter morning. Nostalgia as an act of cultural preservation.

3 manuscripts in progress

Performance taught me that great storytelling is about the details and the entire package — the arc, the moment, the room, the feeling someone leaves with.

🎭 Dance & Performance
🧘 Yoga Educator
🍵 Food & Ritual
🔐 Security at Scale
🤖 AI-Powered Operations
📖 Children's Author

Let's find
the story.

Open to creative director, storytelling, and brand narrative roles at
mission-driven companies working at the frontier.