Senior UX Design Manager, gTech Users and Products

Google • Boulder, CO

6d • $237,000 - $329,000

About The Position

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. You are a systems-level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team. You will be responsible for guiding the careers of your direct reports, helping them realize their full potential while fostering a culture of forward-thinking design. With a practiced eye for quality, you will transform complex workflows into elegantly simple experiences. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and execution. In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google's diverse product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration and more).

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies.
• Lead the development of 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 to engage stakeholders on product design and to achieve product goals.
• Own project priorities, including finding and aligning resources to help with the design project work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager