Senior UX Designer, Retail Ads

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
  
• Experience with visual design in product or UX design environments.
• 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.
  
• 7 years of experience in designing usable web-based and mobile interfaces.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload independently to meet project goals and comprehensive understanding of interaction conventions and aesthetic principles.
• Excellent communication skills in expressing conceptual ideas and design rationale.
• Excellent problem-solving and user focus, with the ability to launch products.

About the job:

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

The teams goal is to design ad interactions that are appealing and also helpful, guiding users through the shopping journey and driving value for Google's core business.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and own the design idea for product areas, establishing and evolving the patterns, frameworks, and standards that enable platforms to scale.
• Drive design strategy and alignment across multiple teams and organizations, influencing product roadmaps and contributing new standards to Google Material and other design systems.
• Act as a core partner to the project stakeholders, Product Management, Engineering, and Research, translating user needs and business goals into a product idea. 
• Mentor and guide other designers, elevating the overall quality of work and fostering a culture of design excellence within the team.
• Articulate a product idea through a range of artifacts, including storyboards, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes, to gain buy-in and communicate user flows and interaction models.