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Staff Visual Designer Lead, YouTube Shorts and Creation

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Compensation
$188–274K/yr
Location
San Bruno, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Visual Design Lead for YouTube Shorts and Creation will create scalable design systems for viewers and creators. The role develops user-centered visual strategies and frameworks to shape how people discover, create, and express themselves through short-form video and generative AI. The designer collaborates with UX, Engineering, Product Management, and the central design system team, using user insights to deliver experiences from concept to execution.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product Design, requiredUX Design, requiredVideo Editing Design, requiredMobile Product Design, requiredConsumer Product Design, requiredCross-Functional Collaboration, nice to haveVisual Design, nice to haveUser-Centered Design, nice to haveVisual Strategy, nice to haveVisual Branding, nice to haveMotion Design, nice to haveDesign Systems, nice to havePrototyping, nice to haveUser Insights, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, required8+ Years Product Design or UX, required5+ Years Video Editing and Mobile Design or 4+ Years Consumer Product Design, requiredPortfolio or Relevant Work Link, required12+ Years Product Design or UX, nice to have5+ Years Complex Cross-Functional Organization Experience, nice to haveEnglish Proficiency, required

Full job description

Staff Visual Designer Lead, YouTube Shorts and Creation

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in product design or UX.

  • 5 years of experience designing for video editing and mobile products or 4 years of experience designing consumer product experiences.

  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

  • 12 years of experience in product design or UX.

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

  • Experience designing for video editing and mobile products.

  • Experience designing for consumer product experiences across complex projects.

  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced, constantly evolving and collaborative environment.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.

As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

YouTube is the epicenter of culture, where billions of users come to immerse themselves in the biggest cultural moments and creators continue to reinvent entertainment. As the Visual Design Lead for YouTube Shorts and Creation, you’ll be responsible for creating scalable and beautiful design systems across YouTube Shorts, for both viewers and creators. This will include developing user-centered visual strategies and scalable frameworks that empower the team to transform how users discover, create, and express themselves through the intersection of short-form video and generative AI.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

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

  • Establish visual strategies that reinforce user-centered mental models for new features, including visual branding/identity and motion design.

  • Reimagine Shorts surfaces and experiences by leveraging and evolving YouTube’s design system in partnership with YouTube’s central design system team.

  • Create designs within technical constraints and demonstrate the direction with prototypes.

  • Provide direction to UX designers and develop visual design frameworks that can be leveraged by UX designers.

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

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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.

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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 685 open UX Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$188–274K/yr
  • California median$159–230K/yr134 salary ranges
  • US median$139–199K/yr455 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $231K, is 19% above the California median midpoint ($195K) — in the middle half of UX Designer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 165 open UX Designer jobs in California and 685 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four UX Designer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 608 postings).
Education
117 of the 685 open UX Designer jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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