Google UK Jobs – UX Director

About the job

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience leading design teams, including managers and managers of managers
• Experience working with cross-functional partnerships across a matrixed organization at the C-level
• Experience building enterprise experiences and partnership integrations

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience delivering solutions for a variety of enterprise and consumer applications and platforms
• Ability to use knowledge to enable ideation and development of creative and innovative solutions
• Ability to connect insights to brand, technical requirements, and product vision and strategy
• Interest in product innovation and the ability to connect research findings with new product proposals
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to distill findings into concise insights to engage and excite stakeholders

About The Job

In this role, you will play a strategic part in driving product vision for Google Merchant Platform, inviting merchants of all sizes into the Google Shopping ecosystem. You will use consumer understanding to inform positive enterprise experiences to create simple merchant touch points that enable real-time signup, product listing, content sharing, transactions, and connections with users in a way that meets merchants where they are. You will build and lead the user experience team in the EMEA region, consisting of UX managers, interaction designers, content strategists, and UX engineers.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

Responsibilities

• Define and build the UX vision for an integrated collection of product experiences that power the Google Merchant platform.
• Identify and set product strategy in partnership with product and engineering, making complex UX ecosystems simple.
• Create and articulate a clear vision of the future for user experience.
• Establish cross-functional and cross-product relationships to build empathy and support product roadmap through planning, design, testing, iterations, and launch.

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 Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .