Staff Interaction Designer, Search

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Interaction Designer, you’ll join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

You’ll always start from a user-centered app-first mindset to drive intuitive, highly engaging user journeys for our products. You’ll bring a builder's mindset with strong craft and the ability to make design decisions that result in a coherent user experience while also assessing for execution, longevity and scale of designs. You’ll have an aesthetic sensibility, understanding relevant trends to make design decisions that increase the overall appeal of our product set. You’ll be a systems thinker with the ability to analyze existing landscapes and consider how factors or components interrelate with each other and within the context of larger systems. You’ll bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy.

As a Staff Interaction designer on the Search Ecosystem, Regulation, and AI team you will design product experiences at the critical intersection of user and ecosystem needs, emerging global regulatory landscapes, and generative AI transformation. You will be responsible for design strategies that ensure next-generation Search features support the ambitions of platforms, publishers, and creators and deliver on trust, safety, and global compliance.

In this role you will work on core feedback, reporting, and removal systems across Search surfaces, content safety tools and safe, regulatory compliant search experiences for users under 18 years of age, and agentic and content provenance regulations.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

- 8 years of experience in product design or UX.

- Experience with design strategy and web or native application design.

- Experience designing AI experiences and using AI-enabled tools.

- 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.

- 12 years of experience in product design or UX.

- 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

- 4 years of experience leading design projects.

- 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

- Experience designing across multiple platforms, including Android, and multiple form factors including mobile phones or emerging hardware.

- Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.

- Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.

- Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.

- Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.

- Provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation or user research/testing.