Senior Interaction Designer, YouTube Comments

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with interaction design in product design or UX design.
• Experience in building solutions with Generative AI (GenAI) technologies.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other related link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in navigating ambiguity and landscapes.
• Experience with working on global products and designing for user bases.
• Experience in leading and collaborating in design direction.
• Experience with design and prototyping tools like Figma.
• Experience with consumer-facing and mobile first products.

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.

In this role, you will drive the design and end-to-end execution for YouTube's Global Comments experience. You will be defining the roadmap, leading core features (e.g., threading, replies), and designing essential creator management tools and moderation systems. You will be balancing user freedom and platform safety to increase engagement.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design goal for new YouTube Comments viewer and creator experiences, including defining and advocating progressive, AI-motivated features that prioritize safety and transparency.
• Own and execute the design process, translate product goals into deliverables like mocks, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Manage design works across multiple projects and communicate priorities to the team, overseeing the design and execution of all assigned experiences.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management and Engineering partners to build a shared, user-centered product goal for Comments, aligning on reasonable, iterative steps for development.
• Drive product innovation through ideation, concept development, and user testing, while contributing to User Experience (UX) culture that values feedback.