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Senior Staff Interaction Designer, Multimodal Search

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Compensation
$236–329K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google seeks a Senior Staff Interaction Designer for its Search team, focused on multimodal search and intuitive user journeys. The designer will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management, use user insights to shape products, and bring strong craft, systems thinking, and AI fluency to design decisions. The role contributes to products used globally and requires extensive product design or UX experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product DesignUX DesignPortfolio PresentationUser-Centered DesignInteraction DesignDesign SystemsUser ResearchAI FluencyPrototyping With AI ToolsSystems ThinkingEnglish Proficiency

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience10 Years Product Design or UX ExperienceMaster's in Design, HCI, CS, or Related15 Years Product Design or UX Experience7 Years Cross-Functional Organization Experience5 Years Executive Leader Experience6 Years Leading Design Projects

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XApplicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 10 years of experience in product design or UX.

  • 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.

  • 15 years of experience in product design or UX.

  • 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

  • 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.

  • 6 years of experience leading design projects.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Interaction Designer, you’ll join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

You’ll always start from a user-centered app-first mindset to drive intuitive, highly engaging user journeys for our products. You’ll bring a builder's mindset with strong craft and the ability to make design decisions that result in a coherent user experience while also assessing for execution, longevity and scale of designs. You’ll have an aesthetic sensibility, understanding relevant trends to make design decisions that increase the overall appeal of our product set. You’ll be a systems thinker with the ability to analyze existing landscapes and consider how factors or components interrelate with each other and within the context of larger systems. You’ll bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy.

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: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.

  • Guide and provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for user research/testing.

  • Own a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.

  • Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies.

  • Lead design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.

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.

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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 592 open UX Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$236–329K/yr
  • California median$158–215K/yr120 salary ranges
  • US median$138–192K/yr417 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $283K, is 53% above the California median midpoint ($185K) — in the top quarter of UX Designer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 158 open UX Designer jobs in California and 592 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four UX Designer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 509 postings).
Education
121 of the 592 open UX Designer jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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