Senior UX Design Manager, Search Ads UI

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. You are a systems-level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies.
• Lead the development of design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
• Own an integrated design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
• Own improvements in design based on User Experience (UX) testing and stakeholder input and provide guidance to engage stakeholders on product design to achieve product goals.
• Own project priorities, including finding and aligning resources to help with the design project work.

Qualifications

• 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. 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams. 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.
• Preferred qualifications: Experience using UX to influence decision making, communicate concepts, and facilitate understanding. Experience translating evolving directions into user-centric approaches. Experience promoting creative design approaches and developing ideas that can evolve products. Ability to drive impact across multiple cross-product initiatives with a group of stakeholders. Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate positions to influence and challenge partners with new design thinking.

Benefits

• 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

Pay

• US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

• Not specified

Skills

• Experience using UX to influence decision making, communicate concepts, and facilitate understanding.
• Experience translating evolving directions into user-centric approaches.
• Experience promoting creative design approaches and developing ideas that can evolve products.
• Ability to drive impact across multiple cross-product initiatives with a group of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate positions to influence and challenge partners with new design thinking.