Senior Staff Interaction Designer, Search App

Google Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Bonus target

Job summary

Google in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Staff Interaction Designer for the Search App. You’ll start from a user-centered, app-first mindset to craft intuitive, engaging journeys across our product surface, balancing craft, execution, longevity, and scale.

You’ll lead design across cross-functional teams, work with AI-enabled tools, and influence partners to build the world’s most capable AI-powered search experience for billions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools and workflows for prototyping and interface exploration.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Responsibilities

• Lead design across foundational surfaces and complex systems.
• Balance craft with execution, longevity, and scale of designs.
• Apply AI fluency to prototype with AI tools and assess outputs for accuracy.
• Collaborate with Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Product Managers.
• Guide cross-functional teams to create engaging AI-powered experiences.

Skills

Generative AI fluency

Design leadership

Executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Design or related field

Job description

Senior Staff Interaction Designer, Search App

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools and workflows for prototyping and interface exploration.
• 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.
• 6 years of experience leading design projects.
• 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.
• Experience working with Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Product Managers throughout the design process.

About the job

As an Interaction Designer at Google, 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 a Senior Designer on App Foundations, you’ll shape the foundational design and execution of some of the most critical surfaces, impacting billions of users every month. You will hold a high bar for craft, balance complex technical constraints with user needs, and directly influence cross-functional partners to create the world’s most knowledgeable and personal AI companion that adapts to your needs, provides rich experiences that best match your question, and effortlessly enables conversation about anything.

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.

About the job

As an Interaction Designer at Google, 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 a Senior Designer on App Foundations, you’ll shape the foundational design and execution of some of the most critical surfaces, impacting billions of users every month. You will hold a high bar for craft, balance complex technical constraints with user needs, and directly influence cross-functional partners to create the world’s most knowledgeable and personal AI companion that adapts to your needs, provides rich experiences that best match your question, and effortlessly enables conversation about anything.

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

• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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