Senior Staff UX Designer, Shopping Cart and Checkout

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

Job summary

Google is seeking an Interaction Designer to transform complex tasks into intuitive experiences for billions. You will shape user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management to evolve the Google design language.

As the UX Designer for Shopping, you will lead a team while doing IC work; you will influence across ads, search, Gemini, YouTube, and Google Pay to deliver cohesive shopping experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
• 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
• Experience working on e-commerce platforms/products.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders to gain support for design strategies.
• Lead innovative design solutions for user, product, and business problems.
• Own holistic design process, design system, or language across teams.
• Own improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide guidance and expertise to effectively engage stakeholders on product design to achieve product goals.
• Own project priorities, including finding and aligning resources effectively to help with the design project work.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Job description

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
• 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
• Experience working on e-commerce platforms/products.
• 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 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.

As the UX Designer for Shopping, you will lead the team responsible for building a personal shopper for everyone. You will guide the design outlook and strategy for cohesive shopping experiences across Google’s core products, including Search, Image Search, and Gemini. This role requires fostering deep collaboration with leadership partners across numerous product areas such as Ads, Search, Gemini, YouTube, Google Pay, and Photos, to bring this unified outlook to life.

In this role, you will be operating as both an IC (75%) and manager (25%) of a small team. You will primarily be on IC work. Because of the nature of the role, candidates will be interviewed as ICs and will be expected to demonstrate IC skills.

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

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• 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.
• Own improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide guidance and expertise to effectively engage stakeholders on product design to achieve product goals.
• Own project priorities, including finding and aligning resources effectively to help with the design project work.

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 .