
Staff Interaction Designer, Search Ads UI
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Job overview
The Staff Interaction Designer will shape user experiences for Google Search Ads, including core text ads, formats, extensions, and design tooling. The role collaborates with Engineering, Product Management, and Organic Search, using user insights to create intuitive products. It drives design strategies and systems across teams and provides direction to UX designers. Applicants may indicate a preferred work location of New York or Mountain View.
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Staff Interaction Designer, Search Ads UI
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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.
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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of experience in product design or UX.
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Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
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12 years of experience in product design or UX.
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5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
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3 years of experience working with executive leaders.
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Experience with consumer products or consumer ads.
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.
Ads UI is responsible for defining useful core text ads on Search results pages, for the formats and extensions that build upon them, and for collaborating with the Organic Search team to ensure the Search Results Page is optimized for ad performance and ad needs. The design team, along with our partners, is directly responsible for highly-visible experiences that trigger on every Google Search, billions of times a day, and accountable for generating a significant slice of Google's overall business. As a horizontal team within Search Ads, we also support innovation and best-practice creation in our design tooling.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
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Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
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Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
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Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.
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Provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation or user research/testing.
Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,029 open Product Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$188–274K/yr
- New York median$160–215K/yr297 salary ranges
- US median$150–216K/yr1,505 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $231K, is 25% above the New York median midpoint ($185K) — in the top quarter of Product Designer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 387 open Product Designer jobs in New York and 2,029 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Product Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,628 postings).
- Education
- 447 of the 2,029 open Product Designer jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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