User Experience Lead, Google Android and Pixel

Google • Mountain View, CA

1d • $224,000 - $315,000

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 complex 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 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 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. Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in UX design, including shipping consumer products.
• 5 years of experience in a UX lead role.
• Experience designing for AI/ML-driven 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).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.
• Experience shepherding products from concept to launch on mobile devices, incorporating user research findings into product design, and the ability to switch between low-level, specific product details and high-level ecosystem needs.
• Experience working within large, matrixed organizations at the intersection of UX, technology, and business strategy, as well as the ability to lead teams through ambiguity and organizational transformations.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, domains, and geographies, and understanding of the opportunities in the AI/ML space.

Responsibilities

• Drive the conceptualization and goal-setting for how AI (LLMs like Gemini) reshapes Android and Pixel.
• Establish and advocate for a modern, sustainable system for design and implementation standards specific to AI-driven experiences on Android.
• Define what works for users in this evolving landscape.
• Build relationships and alignment with product management, engineering, and research teams to ensure a cohesive and high-quality end-to-end user experience.
• Synthesize technical and user considerations into clear, actionable design direction.
• Operate as a thought partner for cross-functional leaders, solving ambiguous problems through effective communication, data-informed decision-making, and user empathy.

What This Job Offers

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