UX Design Manager, Labs, GenMedia

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. You are a systems-level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team.

You will be responsible for guiding the careers of your direct reports, helping them realize their full potential while fostering a culture of forward-thinking design. With a practiced eye for quality, you will transform complex workflows into elegantly simple experiences. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and execution.

In this role, you will lead design strategy and execution initiatives within our Gen Media portfolio. You will bring gaming industry experience to bridge the gap between technology and intuitive player experiences, driving product opportunity framing, feature evolution, and end-to-end product ownership.

You will manage talented individual contributor (IC) UX designers while directly shaping business models and navigating intellectual property in the evolving gaming landscape. You will possess deep expertise in building visually rich, complex interactive systems (such as AR/VR, Web3, or advanced gaming platforms) and a passion for pioneering the future of Generative Media.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies.  
  
• Lead the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.  
  
• Own a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.  
  
• Own improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide guidance and expertise to effectively engage stakeholders on product design to achieve product goals. 
  
• Own project priorities, including finding and aligning resources effectively to help with the design project work.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
  
• 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
  
• 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
  
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  
• Experience in UX with emphasis on generative media and gaming.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.