Senior UX Design Manager, Google Play Developer London, England
Job description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Candidates will typically have 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Typically 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
- Typically 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience designing developer facing products and tools.
- Experience working within organizations at the intersection of UX, technology, and business strategy.
- Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, domains, and geographies to promote the value of a user-centered product development approach.
- Ability to lead teams through ambiguity and organizational transformations.
About the job
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 Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Drive both UX strategies and tactical executions across the team. Define processes and best practices to advance collaboration across teams and cross-functional partners.
- Attract, grow, and retain a multi-disciplinary team of diverse user experience talent.
- Build relationships with Google Play leadership, as well as other UX leaders across Google to share best practices, create collaboration opportunities, and enable talent mobility.
