Job Details
Posted date: Aug 05, 2025
Location: Seattle, WA
Level: Director
Estimated salary: $221,500
Range: $178,000 - $265,000
Description
Manage, coach, and develop a team of UX researchers and designers, fostering their growth and advancing their craft with cutting-edge methods and tools. Own the UX strategy and goal for the team, ensure projects are prioritized, expertly scoped, and executed to the highest standards of innovation and quality. Maintain a clear roadmap of all team initiatives. Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and other leaders to define requirements, integrate user insights, and advocate for user needs, shaping product strategy and ensuring design excellence. Oversee the delivery of high-quality research output through dedicated coaching, rigorous review, and constructive feedback, contributing directly to achieving key organizational objectives. Foster a vibrant culture of user advocacy and design excellence across the organization, regularly sharing insights and updates with leadership and partners to ensure alignment and transparency.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 vision 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.
We help users to build practical skills on Google Cloud Platform and other leading technologies.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + 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.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.8 years of experience in product design or UX.
3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology or related field. 10 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar. 3 years of experience managing UX Researchers.
Extended Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.8 years of experience in product design or UX.
3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
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