Senior UX Strategist Service Designer, Ads Privacy, Safety

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in service design or UX strategy within enterprise, consulting, or agency.
• Experience in data visualization, design, and prototyping tools and methods including AI tools.
• Experience in defining goals and drawing insights from user/market research.
• 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 managing programs and projects, and with Ads, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience in working with security and privacy, safety, and legal teams.
• Ability to guide partner teams and junior team members in strategy, research, alignment, and analysis.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders, including technical partners, and to influence cross-functional teams, and conduct research and data analytics.
• Ability to gather data sets, document complex processes, scenarios, and deliver clear information architecture and insights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to manage various levels of executives, including directors and VPs.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

The Ads Privacy and Safety team, part of the Google-wide priority to improve user trust, protects billions of consumers from being exposed to inappropriate Ads (including fraudulent, scammy, offensive ads) by strengthening enforcement processes. We ensure that advertisers can navigate complex policies without major interruption to their work and correct mistakes when they occur.

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 $151,000-$222,000 + 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

• Partner with product teams across Ads to define the problem space, deliver insights, drive strategy, and provide safety and protection in user-centric experiences.
• Define complex processes and user flows using journey maps, service blueprints, wireframes, ecosystem maps, prototypes (or other tools) to increase clarity.
• Work with Research to define questions, uncover gaps, understand behaviors and pain points.
• Define strategic direction and roadmaps, and drive contribution and alignment from multiple internal and external stakeholders, including technical and executive.
• Create documentation and presentations for executive audiences, facilitating discussions and drive the decision making.