Google

Senior Staff UX Designer, AI Search

Google Mountain View, California, United States · $236K–$329K/yr

Software Development · 10,001+ employees

2 d ago
ui-designer Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

The Senior Staff UX Designer will lead the redesign of the Google Search experience for the AI era by driving creative vision and strategic alignment across teams. They are responsible for establishing a cohesive design approach, mentoring UX designers, and leveraging user insights to create high-impact, scalable products.

What they look for

Product Design UX Design Interaction Design AI Fluency Systems Thinking Strategic Alignment Prototyping Cross-functional Leadership User Research Design Systems Stakeholder Management Creative Vision Search Experience Design User-centered Design Gemini Models

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 10 years of experience in product design or UX, with a strong portfolio demonstrating their work. A bachelor's degree is required, while a master's degree in a related field and extensive experience in cross-functional leadership are preferred.

Benefits

Bonus Equity Health Insurance

Full description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  • 6 years of experience leading design projects.
  • 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.

About the job:

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Interaction Designer, you’ll join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

You’ll always start from a user-centered app-first mindset to drive intuitive, highly engaging user journeys for our products. You’ll bring a builder's mindset with strong craft and the ability to make design decisions that result in a coherent user experience while also assessing for execution, longevity and scale of designs. You’ll have an aesthetic sensibility, understanding relevant trends to make design decisions that increase the overall appeal of our product set. You’ll be a systems thinker with the ability to analyze existing landscapes and consider how factors or components interrelate with each other and within the context of larger systems. You’ll bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy.

As Senior Staff UX Designer, you will help redesign the Search experience for the AI era. You will drive creative vision, and scale the foundational Search experience across Google. You will reimagine a Search that is more expressive and easier to use. You will move effortlessly between a high level creative point of view and pixel perfect delivery. By driving strategic alignment with teams across Google, you will establish a cohesive design approach that scales horizontally.

Join Google Search AI and work at the intersection of industry leading global scale. We apply breakthrough research, leveraging models like Gemini, to launch high-impact products that help billions ask any question and get things done. If you want to drive the future of AI in Search and work with world-class experts to deliver tangible, global impact and continuous innovation, this is the place.

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

US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:

  • Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies. 
  • Lead the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. 
  • Own a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products. 
  • Lead design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes. 
  • Guide and provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for user research/testing.

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