Senior Staff UX Designer, AI Search

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC's UX team seeks a Senior Staff UX Designer to redefine Search for the AI era. You’ll join a multi-disciplinary group, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, using user insights to craft industry-leading experiences.

You will drive design systems, scale across teams, and apply AI fluency to prototype with AI tools, ensuring scalable, expressive search experiences across Google.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 15 years of experience in product design or UX preferred.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

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.

Skills

UX design

Cross-functional collaboration

Portfolio and samples

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Design/ HCI/ CS or related field

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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.

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 .