Senior Staff Designer, UI and Formats, Search Ads

4 Days ago • 10-15 Years • UI/UX Design • Product Design

About the job

Job Description

As a Senior Staff Designer, UI and Formats, Search Ads at Google, you'll be responsible for defining and advocating for the visual design direction of search ads. This involves managing stakeholders, owning the design process, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You'll leverage user insights, business needs, and industry trends to influence strategic decision-making and guide other designers. Your work will directly impact billions of daily Google searches and contribute significantly to Google's revenue. The role requires a deep understanding of UX design, a strong portfolio, and experience leading design projects and working with executive leadership.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Design or related field
  • 10+ years product design or UX experience
  • Portfolio showcasing design work
  • Experience managing stakeholders
  • Ability to lead and mentor designers
  • Strong understanding of UX design principles
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Design or related field
  • 15+ years product design or UX experience
  • Experience in a cross-functional organization
  • Experience leading design projects
  • Experience working with executive leaders
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, 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, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • 7 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.
  • 6 years of experience leading design projects.
  • 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.

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 behaviors and perceptions 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 Visual Designer, you will 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.

Ads UI and Formats is responsible for defining beautiful, useful core text ads on Search results pages, for the formats and extensions that build upon them, and for collaborating with the Organic Search team to ensure the Search results page is optimized for ad performance and ad needs.

The design team, along with our partners, is responsible for highly-visible experiences that trigger on every Google Search, billions of times a day, and accountable for driving a significant slice of Google's overall revenue.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $214,000-$305,000 + 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

  • Manage stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies. 
  • Define and advocate for a bold, controversial future experiences, setting a bar-raising visual design direction for the team.
  • Own a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products. 
  • Use User Experience (UX) Design, user insights, business needs, and industry trends to influence strategic decision making, communicate strategic concepts, facilitate understanding, and shape product strategy.
  • Guide and provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for user research/testing. 
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$214.0K - $305.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$259.5K/yr avg.
Seattle, Washington, United States

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A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

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