UX Engineer, Design, Ads Central UX - Google
New York, NY
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
- Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mock-ups and prototypes.
- Experience with one modern web front-end frameworks and programming languages: Angular, ReactJS, NextJS, Python, Typescript, etc.
- Experience with Google Material Design libraries, Figma, and a user-centric development approach.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 1 year of experience with Cloud back-ends (e.g., GCP), Firebase or Google3 infrastructure.
- Experience with Advanced HTML, CSS/Sass, JavaScript, Typescript, Lit Elements, Web Components, Web Animations, etc.
- Familiarity with agile principles and practices, including quick-to-launch, iterative development, and predictable delivery.
- Ability to clearly communicate with both business and product stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, ambiguous, sensitive, and technical environment.
- Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to adapt and take ownership.
About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Drive project work by implementing and updating the user experience by writing code.
- Participate in project meetings with stakeholders (e.g., product managers, researchers) and provide technical input and inform project decisions on user experience development.
- Identify user experience and technical issues. Develop prototypes from functional/technical specifications.
- Evaluate potential and feasibility for new features by prototyping, soliciting feedback and analyzing problems from a broader technical perspective.
- Collaborate with other UX Engineers on the team to build core features, fix usability issues, write documentation and onboard new users to the tools.