Staff UX Designer Lead, Studio Content Publishing

Google; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 140.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Google is seeking an experienced Interaction Designer to join our UX team in Zurich. You will transform complex tasks into intuitive experiences for billions, from user flows to prototypes, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management.

You should have 8+ years in UX, a portfolio showcasing creator tools and media workflows, and a track record mentoring cross-functional designers and guiding multi-year design goals. This is a full-time on-site role in Zürich.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience designing creator tools, video editing workflows, CMS, or media publishing platforms.
• Experience leading and mentoring cross-functional UX designers and managing multi-year product design goals.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other related link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Aufgaben

• Modernize core upload and publish flows, smart drafts, and comprehensive metadata editing to take the anxiety and friction out of publishing.
• Craft intelligent, AI-powered tools and optimizations for titles, thumbnails, tags, and metadata that maximize a creator’s reach and audience engagement.
• Empower storytelling through advanced capabilities like title and thumbnail A/B testing and seamless integrations with powerful video editing platforms.

Kenntnisse

UX design

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

CMS

Video editing workflows

Media publishing platforms

Jobbeschreibung

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or User Experience (UX).
• Experience designing creator tools, video editing workflows, content management systems (CMS), or media publishing platforms.
• Experience leading and mentoring cross-functional UX designers and managing multi-year product design goals.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other related link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or User Experience (UX).
• Experience designing creator tools, video editing workflows, content management systems (CMS), or media publishing platforms.
• Experience leading and mentoring cross-functional UX designers and managing multi-year product design goals.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other related 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.
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

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. User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: "Focus on the user and all else will follow."

Responsibilities

• Modernize core upload and publish flows, smart drafts, and comprehensive metadata editing to take the anxiety and friction out of publishing. Lead the design of intuitive interfaces that ensure creators can confidently and efficiently publish their content.
• Craft intelligent, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools and optimizations for titles, thumbnails, tags, and metadata that maximize a creator’s reach and audience engagement. Transform complex machine learning models into accessible, actionable insights for creators.
• Empower storytelling through advanced capabilities like title and thumbnail A/B testing and seamless integrations with powerful video editing platforms. Streamline creator workflows from creation through post-production.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .