Principal, Creative Director, Core Search

3 Months ago • 15 Years + • Product Design • $253,000 PA - $363,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Google Search is looking for a Principal UX, Creative Director to lead the redesign of the Core Search experience for the AI era. This role will involve reimagining a Search that is radically more expressive, opinionated, and easier to use. As a leader on one of the largest design teams within Google, you will foster a vibrant culture of creativity that attracts and retains exceptional designers. You will move effortlessly between the high level strategic POV and the tiny details that make the difference. You will inspire teams and partners alike to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Must have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design or equivalent practical experience
  • 15 years of experience working with multi-disciplinary UX teams
  • 10 years of experience with product, service, and solution design
  • Experience connecting product design, business strategy, and brand and marketing
  • Experience elevating product craft, including proficiency in Figma
  • Experience with artificial intelligence and large language models
  • Expertise in managerial and operational excellence with experience successfully leading and lifting large, global teams
  • Portfolio of exceptional product design work with evidence of impact at scale
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Architecture or Fine Arts

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Design (e.g., Graphic, Interaction, Industrial, Architecture, etc.) or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience working with multi-disciplinary UX teams.
  • 10 years of experience with product, service, and solution design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Architecture or Fine Arts.
  • Experience connecting product design, business strategy, and brand and marketing.
  • Experience elevating product craft, including proficiency in Figma.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence and large language models.
  • Expertise in managerial and operational excellence with experience successfully leading and lifting large, global teams.
  • Portfolio of exceptional product design work with evidence of impact at scale.

About the job

At the core of Google Search is our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We’ve made tremendous progress over the past 23 years, making Google Search work better every day. With recent advancements in AI, we’re making bigger leaps forward, so it’s even easier to find just what you’re looking for and be inspired by what you see.

The Search team is on a multi-year mission to redesign the Search experience for a new generation of younger users. We will transition Search from a legacy, text-first experience to one that is visually rich, engaging, and responsive to users’ dramatically changing information needs.

As the Principal UX, you will help redesign the Core Search experience for the AI era. You will reimagine a Search that is radically more expressive, opinionated, and easier to use. In leading designers and through direct contributions you will help us develop 0->1 products and innovative user-centered design. As a leader on one of the largest design teams within Google, you will foster a vibrant culture of creativity that attracts and retains exceptional designers, and you will nurture teams where diversity of background and perspective is celebrated. You will move effortlessly between the high level strategic POV and the tiny details that make the difference. You will inspire teams and partners alike to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $253,000-$363,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Co-lead Search’s next generation design language for the AI era. Develop a compelling creative POV on what the future of Search and how it could feel to users.
  • Align partner teams across Google on a cohesive design approach that scales to horizontal experiences.
  • Co-create design strategy for 0->1 product ideas across Search, including opportunity discovery, cross-product strategy, provocative product visions, cross-portfolio user journeys.
  • Own emergent, highly complex, ambiguous bets from inception to landed proposal. Frame opportunities, potential product solutions, drive initiatives in partnership with key functional partners.
  • Consult with marketing on hero marketing moments and campaign creation. Act as the conduit between product design and other creative functions. Own the principles and story of the Search brand.

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