Staff Interaction Designer, Search Ads UI

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 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:

• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.

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

• 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

• Experience with consumer products or consumer ads.

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.

Ads UI is responsible for defining useful core text ads on Search results pages, for the formats and extensions that build upon them, and for collaborating with the Organic Search team to ensure the Search Results Page is optimized for ad performance and ad needs. The design team, along with our partners, is directly responsible for highly-visible experiences that trigger on every Google Search, billions of times a day, and accountable for generating a significant slice of Google's overall business. As a horizontal team within Search Ads, we also support innovation and best-practice creation in our design tooling.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.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

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Responsibilities

• Define and advocate for bold, controversial future experiences, setting a bar-raising visual design direction across organizational lines to advance Search.
• Develop user journeys, mockups, prototypes, and presentations, rapidly iterating on these designs based on user and stakeholder feedback.
• Partner with UXR and PM to build concise user-centric visions, and collaborate with engineering to ensure designs are implemented to spec despite technical challenges.
• Mentor, provide feedback to, and coordinate the efforts of more junior designers.
• Partner with other designers to evolve the surface of Search and the Ads experiences therein.

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