UX Designer, YouTube Ads Living Room
Company: Google
Locations: Mountain View, California, United States; San Bruno, California, United States; New York, New York, United States
Salary: $132K – $189K a year
Work arrangement: On-site
Employment type: Full-time
Experience: 2-5 years
Education: bachelor degree, postgraduate degree
Posted: 2026-11-10
Responsibilities
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design intuitive user experiences for YouTube Ads on TV platforms. Create wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation while advocating for user-centered improvements.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in interaction or product design. Candidates must provide a portfolio demonstrating their design work and experience.
Skills
- Interaction design
- UX design
- Product design
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- User flows
- User-centered design
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Storyboarding
- Mockups
- Design language
- Connected TV design
Benefits
- Bonus target
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Retirement benefits
About this role
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.
Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our
Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information
can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our
users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their
products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and
business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google
Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline
stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising
and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.Individual pay is determined by factors
including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
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.
About Google
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