Staff Interaction Designer, Conversational Search

Google • San Francisco, CA

11d • $178,000 - $265,000

About The Position

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that goal to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. 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 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 an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use. As the Lead Designer for Conversational Search, you will develop the future of voice interaction at Google Search. You will be responsible for both building new and innovative voice experiences on top of state-of-the-art technology, and unifying those with our existing voice surfaces to create an intelligent voice-driven conversational layer for Google Search. You will define everything from the core interaction logic to the auditory persona of Google itself. You will be a visionary systems thinker who can bridge the gap between visual UI and conversational AI to design the future of how the world speaks to Google.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve s engineering issues and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX in a B2C (Business-to-Consumer) organization.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience designing and shipping multimodal or conversational interfaces (VUI/GUI) for consumer products.
• Experience with capabilities and constraints of state-of-the-art technologies, including Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience in high-fidelity prototyping (e.g. ProtoPie, Origami, or code) to articulate interaction logic, motion, and transitions.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
• Develop innovative design solutions to address user, product, and business problems.
• Lead a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
• Create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.
• Guide UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation or user research/testing.

What This Job Offers

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