Senior Staff UX Designer, Search AI Ads Experiences

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, disable/

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Sick Time

Holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking an experienced Interaction Designer to transform complex tasks into intuitive experiences for billions of users. You will create user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes while collaborating with Engineering and Product Management.

As part of the Ads in AI Experiences team, you will design for the AI era, shaping how ads integrate into conversational and multimodal journeys with a focus on usability and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience building and designing AI-powered consumer products or features.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Responsibilities

• Establish and advocate a cohesive design strategy for advertising within Generative AI.
• Materialize ambitious concepts through advanced prototyping (including code, system prompting, and high-fidelity interaction design).
• Lead experimentation for a wide variety of novel ad formats. Identify user needs, propose hypothesis-driven designs, and iterate rapidly based on live experiments and research insights.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership across Engineering and Product. Navigate matrixed organizations to drive consensus, advocating the user perspective.

Skills

Product design

UX

AI prototyping

Portfolio

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience building and designing AI-powered consumer products or features.
• 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.
• 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.
• Proficiency in using code, system prompts, or advanced design tools to create highly interactive prototypes that demonstrate the real feel of an experience beyond static mockups.

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.

The Ads in AI Experiences team is responsible for one of the highest-priority initiatives at Google: reinventing Search Ads for the AI era (AI Overview, AI Mode). We are building the tech stack, the user experience, and the business model simultaneously. Our mission is to ensure that as Search experience evolves with AI, we unlock new ways for users to discover and engage with businesses through seamless, next-generation commercial experiences. We are a team of risk-takers and builders, responsible for experimenting with rapid velocity to define the next decade of Google’s business engine.

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.

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

Responsibilities

• Establish and advocate a cohesive design strategy for advertising within Generative AI. Look past immediate constraints to paint a compelling future for how commercial information integrates seamlessly into conversational and multimodal user journeys.
• Materialize ambitious concepts through advanced prototyping (including code, system prompting, and high-fidelity interaction design). Set the bar for experiential quality, proving the viability of new interaction models before they enter production.
• Lead experimentation for a wide variety of novel ad formats. Identify user needs, propose hypothesis-driven designs, and iterate rapidly based on live experiments and research insights.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership across Engineering and Product. Navigate matrixed organizations to drive consensus, advocating the user perspective.

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.