Staff UX Designer, Ads in Search AI Experiences

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.

• Experience building and designing AI-powered consumer products or features.

• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.

• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

• 4 years of experience leading design projects.

• 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

• Proficiency in using code, system prompts, or advanced design tools to create highly interactive prototypes that demonstrate the real feel of an experience beyond static mockups.

About the job:

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:

• Establish and advocate a cohesive design strategy for advertising within Generative AI. Look past immediate constraints to paint a compelling future for how commercial information integrates seamlessly into conversational and multimodal user journeys.

• Materialize ambitious concepts through advanced prototyping (including code, system prompting, and high-fidelity interaction design). Set the bar for experiential quality, proving the viability of new interaction models before they enter production.

• Lead experimentation for a wide variety of novel ad formats. You will identify user needs, propose hypothesis-driven designs, and iterate rapidly based on live experiments and research insights.

• Act as a trusted thought partner to senior leadership across Engineering and Product. You will navigate matrixed organizations to drive consensus, advocating the user perspective.