UX Design Manager, AI Mode

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in visual design, product design, or UX, with a focus on design systems and visual language.
• 4 years of management experience with direct reports.
• Experience creating detailed visual design systems, component libraries, and high-fidelity mockups and prototypes across multiple platforms.
• Include a portfolio, website, or other relevant link to your work (with password, if applicable), showcasing leadership in visual and systems design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience showcasing excellence in visual design, branding and visual language development.
• Experience defining and promoting design processes to elevate team quality and craft.
• Experience leading the design of a multi-platform design system.
• Ability to influence and build consensus with executive leadership and cross-functional partners.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX leaders help define and drive the future of Google design. They create and clarify product strategy, conceptualize UX ecosystems in ways that mitigate complexity, and inspire teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible. They possess a clear goal of the future of user experience and have the courage to pursue forward-thinking design.

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. You are a thoughtful team leader, manager, systems-level design thinker, and visionary - with strong instincts and outstanding intuition informed by user needs and insights. You'll be responsible for guiding the careers of your team members, working closely with each of them to help them realize their full potential.

UX Design Managers are fierce advocates for the people who use our products as well as the members of their teams. They have a practiced eye for effective design, and are committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.

In this role, you’ll take the time to understand not just the execution side of UX, but also the business aspects of the products we build. You’ll collaborate with leaders of other UX, Engineering, and Product Management teams to create innovative experiences across all of Google’s products, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and design quality.

In this role, you'll guide the creative goal and design language for an expressive AI Search.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

• Influence cross-functional stakeholders to gain support for design strategies.
• Develop innovative design solutions to address user, product and business problems.
• Lead a holistic design process, system or language across teams or products.
• Implement design improvements based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide guidance and expertise to engage stakeholders in achieving product design goals.
• Align project priorities with broader goals, co-ordinate resource allocation within the design project and guide team members to develop individual Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).