Senior UX Program Manager, Google Home

1 Month ago • 6-10 Years • UI/UX Design • $151,000 PA - $222,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior UX Program Manager at Google Home, you'll leverage your project management expertise and passion for UX to improve product design. Responsibilities include scoping and delivering programs aligning with team goals, facilitating cross-functional alignment, identifying and resolving project obstacles, and managing multiple projects and timelines. You'll work closely with UX stakeholders and cross-functional partners, ensuring clear communication and driving team effectiveness. The role requires experience in program management, UX design principles, and cross-functional collaboration within a fast-paced environment. You'll contribute to the development of Google Home's hardware, software, and services offerings, impacting products used by millions.
Must have:
  • 6+ years program management experience in design/UX
  • 6+ years UX project experience
  • Experience with UX tools and methodologies
  • Cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Project management and execution skills
Good to have:
  • 10+ years program management experience
  • Experience scaling UX programs
  • Operational efficiency improvement experience
  • Project, asset, resource, and data management experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of program management experience within design or UX organizations.
  • 6 years of experience with UX related projects and UX design, user research, or user centered development tools and methodologies.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience in program management, ability to lead complex strategic and operational initiatives.
  • Experience partnering effectively on cross-functional projects or teams in a dynamic/fast-paced environment.
  • Experience managing and scaling UX-related programs, working with UX disciplines and user-centered development tools and methodologies.
  • Experience driving operational efforts across organizations, improving the velocity/productivity of teams, products, and systems.
  • Experience in project, asset, resource, and data management.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." UX Programs & Operations at Google drive projects within our UX organizations by increasing communication and connection points, streamlining the UX design process, and driving a culture of user centered development.

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 a UX Program Manager (UX Programs & Operations), you will combine expert project management skills with a passion for user experience to help your team improve the design of products that are used by billions of users. You’ll plan projects, define milestones, assess risks, create actionable insights, and ensure projects meet deadlines. You’ll harmonize the work of UX Designers, Researchers, Content Strategists, UX Engineers, and other UX disciplines, while also working closely with our Engineering and Product Manager cross-functional partners, to drive UX team objectives and create innovative experiences for our business, products, and users.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make
users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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

  • Scope, plan, and deliver programs that drive resourcing and achievement of team goals. Facilitate alignment across functions on UX priorities, resources, and progress. Partner with UX leads and stakeholders to recommend program priorities and shifts when needed.
  • Partner with UX leads and PgM team to identify project and program level obstacles, propose appropriate processes to address challenges or improvements that increase velocity, cohesion, and team performance.
  • Lead day-to-day project management of various programs partnering closely with UX stakeholders as well as cross-functional stakeholders to manage multiple projects, timelines, milestones, prioritization and escalations with a focus on velocity.
  • Clearly and consistently connect and communicate across teams to ensure shared knowledge, alignment, and cohesion that improves team effectiveness and product quality. 

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