UX Research Manager Jobs in Mountain View, CA

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.

We're the Ads Privacy and Safety UX team, part of the Google-wide priority to improve user trust. We protect consumers from being exposed to inappropriate ads by strengthening enforcement processes. At the same time, we ensure that advertisers are able to navigate complex policies without major interruption to their work and correct mistakes when they occur. In this role, you will be the creative engine for our zero-to-one AI initiatives. From crafting intricate information graphics that demystify complex machine learning concepts to producing high-quality videos and graphic design assets, you will shape how both users and internal stakeholders understand our products. To achieve this, you will actively integrate AI tools and prompt engineering into the day-to-day workflow, using technology to amplify the creative process, accelerate prototyping, and discover new ways of working. Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and businesses around the world use our products (like Google Shopping and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $132000 - $190000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience utilizing AI tools, including prototyping and building with AI, to ship fully realized, highly-polished features and explore the future of conversational or automated payments.
- Experience working with Google Ads or equivalent platforms.
- Experience working closely with Security and Privacy, Safety, and Legal teams.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, including technical partners, and to influence cross-functional teams.
- Ability to gather large data sets, documenting complex processes and scenarios, and delivering clear information architecture and insights.
- Excellent organization skills, with experience managing programs and projects.

Responsibilities

- Translate complex technical capabilities like foundational models and agentic workflows into intuitive, seamless interface designs and user paradigms for Google developers.
- Deliver high-quality user journeys, wireframes, interaction models, and pixel-perfect mockups that adhere to and evolve Google's design systems.
- Build interactive prototypes to quickly test, iterate, and demonstrate novel AI interactions (e.g., chat interfaces, inline code suggestions, autonomous agent hand-offs) and envision, prioritize, develop, prototype and execute designs.
- Collaborate daily with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Research Scientists to align design solutions with technical feasibility and product constraints.
- Deliver design executions that set the standard for design and align with brand and established UX patterns.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.