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.

You will be responsible for guiding the careers of your direct reports, helping them realize their full potential while fostering a culture of forward-thinking design. With a practiced eye for quality, you will transform complex workflows into elegantly simple experiences. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and execution.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $237,000-$329,000 + 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 benefits at Google.

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 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.

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.

• Include a portfolio, website, or any other link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).