Google

Design Manager, XR

Google$188K — $275K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years in product design or UX.
  • 3 years leading design projects and managing teams.
  • Experience with interaction design and user-centered design.

Responsibilities

  • Influence stakeholders to support design strategies.
  • Develop innovative solutions for user and business problems.
  • Drive a holistic design process across teams or products.
  • Implement improvements based on UX testing and stakeholder feedback.
  • Align project priorities with broader goals and manage resource allocation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Retirement plans with company matching.
  • Access to professional development resources.
Full Job Description
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • 3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
  • Experience with core interaction design, user-centered design, and their usability.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  • 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
  • Experience in the space of designing for OS platforms and ecosystems.


About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. You are a systems-level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team.
You will be responsible for guiding the careers of your direct reports, helping them realize their full potential while fostering a culture of forward-thinking design. With a practiced eye for quality, you will transform complex workflows into elegantly simple experiences. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and execution.For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by
breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap - the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices - it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where
lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) 20% bonus target bonus equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
  • Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
  • Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
  • Deliver improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide guidance and expertise to effectively engage stakeholders on product design to achieve product goals.
  • Drive project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the design project and guide team members to develop individual Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).


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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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