UX Design Manager, Google Photos

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree 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.
  
• Experience in visual design and prototyping.
• Portfolio highlighting user-centered design, cross-platform experiences (e.g., Android, iOS, Web), and visual design principles.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
  
• Experience designing for mobile-first applications with millions of users.
• Experience designing and shipping complex, large-scale consumer software or platform/foundational design systems.
• Understanding of visual media and image editing tools.
• Ability to drive alignment and collaboration across multiple, geographically distributed teams.

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.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

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.

• Define the long-term UX outlook and strategy, driving the creation of robust, accessible, and performant design guidelines and toolkits (adhering to the latest material design standards) to ensure seamless and scalable integration of photos functionality across all first-party and third-party surfaces and features.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of UX designers, setting clear performance goals, supporting career development, and managing strategic project allocation and resource planning across multiple high-priority initiatives.
• Act as a key design partner to product and engineering leadership, influencing strategic decisions and product roadmaps, including cross-product area and partnership collaborations.
• Oversee the end-to-end design process, from ideation and user research to prototyping, detailed specification, and implementation.