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Senior Staff UX Designer, Search AI Ads Experiences
GoogleCedar Rapids, IA, USASenior10+ years
Apply In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience building and designing AI-powered consumer 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).
Preferred qualifications:
- 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
- 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.
- Proficiency in using code, system prompts, or advanced design tools to create highly interactive prototypes that demonstrate the real feel of an experience beyond static mockups.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.
As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.
The Ads in AI Experiences team is responsible for one of the highest-priority initiatives at Google: reinventing Search Ads for the AI era (AI Overview, AI Mode). We are building the tech stack, the user experience, and the business model simultaneously. Our mission is to ensure that as Search experience evolves with AI, we unlock new ways for users to discover and engage with businesses through seamless, next-generation commercial experiences. We are a team of risk-takers and builders, responsible for experimenting with rapid velocity to define the next decade of Google’s business engine.
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Establish and advocate a cohesive design strategy for advertising within Generative AI. Look past immediate constraints to paint a compelling future for how commercial information integrates seamlessly into conversational and multimodal user journeys.
- Materialize ambitious concepts through advanced prototyping (including code, system prompting, and high-fidelity interaction design). Set the bar for experiential quality, proving the viability of new interaction models before they enter production.
- Lead experimentation for a wide variety of novel ad formats. Identify user needs, propose hypothesis-driven designs, and iterate rapidly based on live experiments and research insights.
- Act as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership across Engineering and Product. Navigate matrixed organizations to drive consensus, advocating the user perspective.
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