UX Designer, YouTube Ads Living Room

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• 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.
• 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 1 year of experience leading design projects.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.
As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.

The YouTube Living Room surface is experiencing explosive growth and represents YouTube's fastest-growing watch time domain. The YouTube Ads CTV and Live UX team is dedicated to pioneering innovative, seamless, and viewer-centric ad experiences on the TV screen. Our charter is to scale monetization—spanning high-growth Direct Response interactive formats, premium brand sponsorships, and YT Live ad facilitate agreements—while protecting and elevating the long-term viewer experience in a lean-back, ten-foot environment.
As a UX Designer on this team, you will tackle unique interaction design issues at the intersection of entertainment, interactivity, and commerce on Connected TVs. You will collaborate closely with fellow UX teammates, PMs, Engineering, and Organic partners to shape how billions of viewers discover brands, interact with ads using remote controls or companion devices, and experience live broadcasts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.