Senior UX Researcher, YouTube Gaming

🏢 Summary: Product management role focused on guiding Search products from conception through launch and improving information access for users worldwide. The position partners with engineering, UX, marketing, legal, and other teams to solve complex product and infrastructure challenges, launch features, and iterate based on performance. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of product management or related technical experience, 3 years taking technical products from conception to launch 📃 Skills: Accessibility, Software 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 8 years of experience in product management or related technical role. • 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1). Preferred qualifications • Master’s degree or PhD in a technology- or business-related field. • 5 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales, finance, and other stakeholders. • 5 years of experience in a business function or role, such as marketing, business operations, or consulting. • 4 years of experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership. • 3 years of experience in software development or engineering. • Knowledge of, or continued interest in, accessibility best practices and experience or curiosity in incorporating accessibility into product development methodologies. About the job Work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch, connecting technical and business priorities. Break down complex problems into actionable steps that drive product development. The role supports the design and development of technologies that improve access to information. Responsibilities span the product execution cycle, including analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring solutions to users. The Search team is reimagining how people search for information across contexts and devices. The work involves solving complex engineering challenges, expanding infrastructure, and maintaining an accessible, useful experience relied on by people globally. Responsibilities • Understand markets, competition, and user requirements in depth. • Launch new products and features, test performance, and iterate quickly. • Collaborate with engineering, marketing, legal, UX, and other teams on technologies. • Develop solutions by collaborating across regions, product areas, and functions as needed.

🏢 Summary: Product Manager role for Chrome on Android, leading consumer-facing mobile features and foundational platform capabilities from concept through launch. The position leads a cross-functional team, runs experiments, and shapes product strategy using analytics, UX research, and stakeholder alignment. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, 3 years of product management or related technical experience, 1 year taking technical products from conception to launch, Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows 📃 Skills: Productmanagement, GenerativeAI, LLM, Analytics, UX, Android, Chrome 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 3 years of experience in product management, or a related technical role. • 1 year of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1). • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows. Preferred qualifications • Experience shipping mobile features or working on consumer-facing/B2C solutions. • Experience in product delivery and the ability to work on multiple projects concurrently across a distributed team in different time zones. • Experience working with a Design team or familiarity with basic design principles. • Ability to work with data and perform basic data analysis. About the job Product Managers guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds, breaking down complex problems into steps that drive product development. The team works closely with engineers, designers, marketers, and other partners to design and develop technologies that improve access to information. Product Management guides products throughout the execution cycle, focusing on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring solutions to users. As a Product Manager, you will lead a dedicated cross-functional sub-team of ten or more Software Engineers, one UX Designer, and one UX Researcher. The team is part of the larger Chrome Android portfolio, a distributed organization of more than eighty members, mostly located across the West Coast. You will drive the development of consumer-facing application features and core foundational stack capabilities, frequently running experiments to validate product hypotheses. The role requires persistence in achieving meaningful impact despite complex organizational or technical constraints and offers the opportunity to shape mobile browsing at scale. Responsibilities • Design and launch experiments with analytics around usage metrics and business impact; iterate based on analysis and UX research concept studies. • Engage and align with the broader Chrome team on feature-engagement trade-offs and the latest capabilities and content. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, UX Design, UX Research, Marketing, Legal, Privacy, and Public Relations. • Take responsibility for the planning, execution, and success of complex cross-functional projects. • Extend product strategy for specific user segments and drive it forward, gaining buy-in from leadership and stakeholders across Chrome and Android teams.

🏢 Summary: Lead the strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery of technical products that serve millions of users. The role owns product requirements, market validation, product goals, and performance metrics while leading cross-functional teams. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 10 years of product management or related technical experience, 5 years taking technical products from conception to launch, 5 years of people management and technical leadership 📃 Skills: Product-management, MarTech, eCommerce, UX/UI, Analytics, Roadmapping, Metrics 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 10 years of experience in product management or a related technical role. • 5 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (for example, ideation to execution, end-to-end, or 0 to 1). • 5 years of people-management experience with technical leadership. Preferred qualifications • Master's degree in a technology- or business-related field. • 7 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales, finance, and other stakeholders. • 5 years of experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership. • Experience building and deploying Marketing Technology (MarTech) products. • Experience in eCommerce. • Experience in an enterprise customer-facing role. Description Work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch, connecting technical and business perspectives. Break down complex problems into actionable steps that drive product development. The Product Management team works closely with engineers, designers, and marketers to design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. The role guides products throughout the execution cycle, with responsibility for analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring solutions to users. Responsibilities • Own Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), overseeing collaboration with partner teams such as engineers, PgMs, and UX during product design. • Own and oversee the definition of product roadmaps. • Develop and secure buy-in for a product goal that identifies, defines, and supports the overall product narrative and direction. • Oversee validation of market size and opportunity, including user-based, opportunity, and business assessments. • Lead the team in defining, identifying, collecting, and tracking appropriate quantitative and qualitative product or business metrics for new or existing products or business ventures. Benefits • Benefits available at Google.

🏢 Summary: Lead foundational UX research for generative AI products, shaping long-term product strategy and model behavior. The role partners with research, product, and operations teams to translate user evidence into AI evaluation frameworks, including measures for trust, agency, and hallucination tolerance. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Cognitive Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of experience in UX research, product strategy, or a related consumer technology field, Qualitative research experience, Quantitative research experience 📃 Skills: UX, AI, RLHF, Research, Analytics 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 8 years of experience in User Experience Research, Product Strategy, or a related field within consumer-facing technology. • Experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods. Preferred qualifications • Experience working on systems such as AI, search, algorithmic feeds, or cloud platforms where the user experience is driven by machine learning. • Experience influencing executive stakeholders and managing product changes through evidence-based narratives. Description Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. The role focuses on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users, with safety and ethics as priorities. Responsibilities • Identify the next wave of user needs in generative AI. • Move beyond tactical testing to lead foundational research that informs the multi-year product roadmap. • Define the signals used for model tuning through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to ensure the AI’s personality and reasoning align with user expectations. • Partner with Research, Product Management, and Strategy and Operations to integrate user insights into core business and technical strategy. • Develop and scale new frameworks for evaluating AI. • Pioneer ways to measure complex concepts such as hallucination tolerance, creative agency, and collaborative trust that traditional UX metrics often miss.

🏢 Summary: Product Manager role focused on defining and launching AI-powered Pixel mobile experiences. The position leads product strategy, on-device AI solutions, prototyping, and cross-functional delivery from concept through launch. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 3 years of product management or related technical experience, 1 year taking technical products from conception to launch, Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows 📃 Skills: AI, LLM, Android, UX, UI, Software, Prototyping 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 3 years of experience in product management or a related technical role. • 1 year of experience taking technical products from conception to launch, such as ideation to execution or 0-to-1 work. • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows. Preferred qualifications • Master's degree in a technology- or business-related field. • 2 years of experience in a business function or role, such as strategic marketing, business operations, or consulting. • 2 years of experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to senior leadership. • 2 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales, finance, and other stakeholders. • 1 year of experience in software development or engineering. • Experience with Android mobile, device software, operating systems, or other foundational technology-stack components. About the job Guide products from conception to launch by connecting technical and business needs, breaking complex problems into actionable steps that drive product development. Work with engineers, designers, marketers, and other partners to design, develop, position, package, promote, and tailor solutions for users. The role supports the development of mobile experiences, bringing together artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to create smartphone experiences for users worldwide. Responsibilities • Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for AI experiences, synthesizing multimodal signals into context-aware user suggestions. • Advance next-generation device pipelines to create frictionless user interactions. • Partner with engineering, UX, and privacy teams to architect secure, on-device processing solutions that address technical platform constraints. • Lead rapid prototyping and continuous testing using AI-assisted tools to independently validate concepts and user experiences. • Author product specifications that frame requirements around outcomes and success criteria and align specialized teams.

🏢 Summary: Product Manager role for Google Ads, guiding advertising products from concept through launch and iteration. The position partners with engineering, UX, marketing, legal, and other teams to develop solutions that help publishers and advertisers succeed across Google’s advertising network. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, 3 years of product management or related technical experience, 1 year taking technical products from conception to launch 📃 Skills: Product, Management, Accessibility, Engineering 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 3 years of experience in product management or a related technical role. • 1 year of experience taking technical products from conception to launch, such as ideation through execution or 0-to-1 development. Preferred qualifications • Master’s degree or PhD in a technology- or business-related field. • 2 years of experience in a business function or role, such as strategic marketing, business operations, or consulting. • 2 years of experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to senior leadership. • 2 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales, finance, and other stakeholders. • 1 year of experience in software development or engineering. • Knowledge of, or continued interest in, accessibility best practices and incorporating accessibility into product development methodologies. About the job Product Managers guide products from conception to launch by connecting technical and business needs and breaking complex problems into steps that drive product development. The Product Management team works closely with engineers, designers, marketers, and other partners to design and develop technologies that improve access to the world’s information. The team guides products throughout the execution cycle, including analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring solutions to users. As a Product Manager for Google Ads, you will support businesses running search, display, and video campaigns on Google and its advertising network. You will explore, develop, and apply state-of-the-art technologies to help publishers generate business through their content and help advertisers acquire engaged users. Responsibilities • Understand markets, competition, and user requirements in depth. • Launch new products and features, test performance, and iterate quickly. • Collaborate with engineering, marketing, legal, UX, and other teams on cutting-edge technologies. • Develop solutions by collaborating across regions, product areas, and functions as needed.

🏢 Summary: Lead the architecture and scaling of AI/ML infrastructure for YouTube Ads creative automation. The role focuses on high-throughput distributed systems, GenAI media-processing pipelines, experimentation platforms, and technical leadership across product and research teams. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of software development experience, 5 years of software product testing and launch experience, 5 years building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, networks, compute, storage, or hardware architecture, 3 years of software design and architecture experience, Experience designing or deploying machine-learning infrastructure or platforms 📃 Skills: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Cloud, Distributed, Infrastructure, Architecture, Algorithms, MachineLearning, DeepLearning, GenAI 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. • 8 years of experience in software development. • 5 years of experience testing and launching software products. • 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture. • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. • Experience designing or deploying machine learning (ML) infrastructure or platforms. Preferred qualifications • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects. • Proficiency in deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and cloud/distributed data technologies. About the job Develop next-generation technologies that operate at massive scale. Work on a project critical to business needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as priorities evolve. Bring ideas across areas including distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, data storage, artificial intelligence, and more. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. The YouTube Ads Creative Optimization (YACO) team develops Creative Automation applications that drive advertiser value with minimal advertiser effort by leveraging AI technologies. The team operates at the intersection of Ads, YouTube, and Research. Responsibilities • Serve as the technical leader responsible for architecting, scaling, and steering next-generation infrastructure that powers AI/ML applications. • Operate at the intersection of Ads, YouTube, and GenAI research to build high-throughput systems enabling seamless creative generation and optimization. • Define the technical roadmap and architect scalable foundational infrastructure, including creative data engines, generation and rendering pipelines, and agentic orchestration frameworks. • Design and optimize distributed systems for complex GenAI and heavy media-processing workloads. • Build and mature experiment and learning infrastructure to accelerate model training, evaluation, and rapid deployment. • Partner with Product Management, Research, and executive leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with long-term business goals. • Guide, mentor, and elevate executive and junior engineers, fostering technical excellence and execution.

🏢 Summary: Senior software engineering opportunity focused on improving the YouTube Shorts feed through large-scale recommendation and machine-learning systems. The role leads ML strategy and architecture, builds production models and training infrastructure, and collaborates across product, data science, engineering, and design teams. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, 8 years of software development experience, 7 years leading technical project strategy and ML design, 7 years working with industry-scale ML infrastructure, 5 years of software design, architecture, testing, and product launches, 5 years building and deploying production recommendation models, Experience with retrieval, prediction, ranking, and embedding models, Experience designing architecture across different modeling domains 📃 Skills: ML, Retrieval, Prediction, Ranking, Embedding, Algorithms, Architecture, Debugging, Deployment, Evaluation, FineTuning 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 8 years of experience in software development. • 7 years of experience leading technical project strategy, ML design, and working with industry-scale ML infrastructure, including model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, and fine-tuning. • 5 years of experience with design and architecture, and testing and launching software products. • 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation system models—retrieval, prediction, ranking, and embedding—in production. • Experience building architecture in different modeling domains. Preferred qualifications • Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, or a related highly technical field. • 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction. • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional or cross-business projects. About the job This role develops next-generation technologies that operate at massive scale. The engineer will work on a project critical to the product, bring ideas across areas such as information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, data storage, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and demonstrate versatility and technical leadership. The team is building a new short-form video experience for creating and consuming videos, helping creators connect with their viewer communities within the app. The work focuses on enabling viewers to access fresh short-form content from favorite creators and discover new channels. Responsibilities • Bring ideas to optimize the Shorts feed for better user experiences, new use cases, and overall product quality. • Build large-scale machine learning models, training infrastructure, and quality evaluation; design ML architecture. • Work with data scientists, product managers, front-end engineers, and user experience designers to improve product quality.

🏢 Summary: Senior Interaction Designer role focused on defining UX strategy for AI and compute infrastructure platforms, including GKE and GCE. The position designs scalable, agent-native enterprise cloud experiences, partners with product, engineering and research teams, and mentors junior designers. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience, 6 years of interaction design, product design, or UX design experience, Generative AI prototyping and interface-exploration experience, Technical enterprise cloud application design experience, Portfolio, website, or relevant work link included with resume 📃 Skills: UX, InteractionDesign, GenerativeAI, Prototyping, Wireframing, Mockups, Kubernetes, GKE, GCE, Cloud, Storyboarding 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design. • Experience leveraging generative AI tools and workflows for rapid prototyping and interface exploration. • Experience designing technical enterprise cloud applications. • Include a portfolio, website, or other relevant link to your work in your resume. Preferred qualifications • Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field. • 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization. • 2 years of experience leading design projects. About the job Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences. The role creates user flows and wireframes, builds mockups and prototypes, and brings refined product experiences to life. You will work on a multidisciplinary UX team with Engineering and Product Management, using user insights to create industry-leading products. As an Interaction Designer, you will apply user-centered design methods to craft user experiences from concept through execution. You will work with design partners to evolve the design language and build innovative products. As a Senior Interaction Designer on the AI and Compute Infrastructure (ACI) UX team, you will help shape cloud computing in the agentic era. You will drive design strategy and the user-experience vision for critical infrastructure platforms, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google Compute Engine (GCE), enabling enterprise customers to use AI hyper-computer architecture. You will navigate complex, ambiguous spaces to design intuitive, scalable enterprise solutions; collaborate with cross-functional leaders; and lead UX excellence for next-generation AI infrastructure. Responsibilities • Lead the UX vision and design strategy for complex, ambiguous AI and compute infrastructure domains, aligned with long-term business objectives. • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to design useful, consistent, and scalable agent-native cloud products. • Communicate user experiences throughout the design process using high-level storyboards, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. • Influence and contribute to the evolution of global design systems to ensure their utility for applications. • Mentor and guide junior UX designers, providing constructive design feedback and fostering professional development and craft excellence.

🏢 Summary: Product Design Architect role focused on translating industrial design concepts into production-ready, Class-A CAD surfaces for consumer electronics. The position uses NX and Alias to support products from concept through mass production, collaborating with design, engineering, UX, manufacturing, and external teams. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience, 6 years of consumer product design experience, Consumer electronics industry experience, 3D surfacing experience with NX and Alias, Experience designing and shipping consumer products, Portfolio, website, or accessible work samples included with resume 📃 Skills: NX, Alias, CAD, Surfacing, Manufacturing, Prototyping 🏢 Description: Minimum qualifications • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Industrial Design, Manufacturing) or equivalent practical experience. • 6 years of experience in consumer product design, including in the consumer electronics industry. • Experience with 3D surfacing, utilizing NX/Alias. • Experience designing and shipping consumer products. • 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 in aligning design team efforts with company goals. • Experience with materials, manufacturing, and all phases of the design process; ability to apply this expertise to provide innovative solutions to complex problems. • Experience leading projects from concept to mass production as a team player with a willingness to learn. • Proven record of shipping exceptional consumer products. • Ability to grow in ambiguity, focus on customer experience, be detail-oriented, and do what it takes to get the job done. • Strong problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills. About the job The Product Design Architect team is part of the Hardware Design organization. Its mission is to support the industrial design team by developing ideas into products and designing consumer devices that delight and inspire users worldwide. The team uses a deeply considered approach to craft beautiful, production-ready Class-A surfaces with a high bar for quality, aesthetics, and mathematical precision. In addition to delivering user-visible surfaces, the team partners cross-functionally to investigate mechanical and component architectures and develop innovative design concepts for appearance models, visualizations, and functional prototypes. As a Product Design Architect, you will use 3D CAD software to capture and maintain industrial design vision from concept to production. You will understand a broad range of manufacturing processes and use cross-functional collaboration to meet engineering, UX, reliability, and cost requirements. You will push 3D CAD to the highest level, focus on details, and bring designs into mass production. The Platforms and Devices team spans computing software platforms and first-party devices and services, researching, designing, and developing technologies that make interaction with computing faster and more seamless. Responsibilities • Leverage NX/Alias to capture and maintain industrial design vision from sketches, reference CAD, and discussions. • Collaborate with Industrial Design, UX, Engineering, Manufacturing, and external teams to deliver production-level CAD models with Class-A surfaces in NX/Alias that meet requirements. • Create high-quality 3D surfaces for design concepts, prototypes, engineering evaluations, and visualizations. • Work independently and cross-functionally throughout the development and build process. • Travel may be needed, including to overseas manufacturing facilities, to ensure manufacturing viability while maintaining the design vision. • Present knowledge of new materials and processes, state-of-the-art innovation, and emerging technologies that inform product development. • Identify future tools and processes to enhance capabilities and support department and company growth.