
Staff UX Designer, Google Labs
Mountain View, CAJob$188–274K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Staff UX Designer will shape how students and knowledge workers engage with AI by evolving the Notebook product experience. Working with Product, Engineering, and a multidisciplinary UX team, the designer will translate technical capabilities into user experiences, develop prototypes, and use user insights to identify product opportunities. The role also emphasizes high visual and UX standards, design leadership, and mentoring peers.
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Staff UX Designer, Google Labs
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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.
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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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Experience working with visual and interaction design tools.
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Experience in user interface design, data visualization, and prototyping.
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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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Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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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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4 years of experience leading design projects.
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3 years of experience working with executive leaders.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our UX Engineers are versatile, passionate, and driven to advance the vision for our design teams. Comfortable working across discipline lines, you will develop products and prototypes that bring innovative ideas to life.
Joining a multi-disciplinary UX team, you will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management, using user insights to create industry-leading products. In a fast-paced environment, you will use your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to: create prototypes that define product experiences; launch innovative features; build tools to accelerate UX teams; and bridge design and engineering to ensure efficient, high-quality execution.
In this role, you will shape how students and knowledge workers engage with AI. As a Staff UX Designer, you will navigate ambiguity, collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leadership, and help continuously improve and evolve the Notebook product experience.
Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.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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Translate sophisticated, open-ended AI technical features into clear, intuitive, and reliable user experiences. Navigate ambiguity to reframe complex technical requirements into fluid user journeys.
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Stay at advancing AI capabilities with a strong technical grounding in core AI principles and constraints. Thoughtfully incorporate AI methodologies to optimize design efficiency, enhance cross-functional communication, and drive outcomes.
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Maintain a high bar for user experience and visual design standards. Make design choices that boost overall product quality while mentoring peers and fostering design excellence.
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Utilize user research, empathy, and iterative testing to uncover high-value product opportunities and address the changing needs of knowledge workers and students.
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 682 open UX Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$188–274K/yr
- California median$159–220K/yr130 salary ranges
- US median$138–190K/yr449 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $231K, is 21% above the California median midpoint ($192K) — in the top quarter of UX Designer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 167 open UX Designer jobs in California and 682 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- 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 599 postings).
- Education
- 112 of the 682 open UX Designer jobs (16%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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