Senior Staff UX Design/Builder, Google Labs
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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, or a related field.
- 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.
- Demonstrated track record of translating ambiguous, cutting-edge technologies into validated, intuitive user products through end-to-end design leadership.
About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Conversation Designers leverage their knowledge of human language and communication to create seamless and natural interactions for digital systems across surfaces.
Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.
As a Conversation Designer, you’ll create conversational, voice-forward experiences across multiple surfaces, such as smart speakers, smart displays, auto, and more. You’ll work on multiple projects simultaneously, deal with cross-functional stakeholders, and provide feedback and direction to design work. Design work will include understanding product requirements and user context, and you’ll create flows, prompts, and multi-modal interaction patterns.
Labs Science is focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.
Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.
US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end product development, design architecture, and UX vision for 0→1 incubations, influencing executive leadership to secure alignment and investment.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Research leadership to translate ambiguous frontier technologies into compelling, user-centered product definitions.
- Own holistic design processes, interaction models, and information architectures, leading rapid prototyping and user testing to validate hypotheses and shape roadmaps.
- Establish and scale design principles, design patterns, and quality standards across complex, multi-faceted problem spaces and incubation teams.
- Mentor and provide creative and strategic direction to designers and cross-functional partners across the organization.
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