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UX Design Patterns and Productivity Specialist, Google Ads

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
Experience in design patterns, layout construction, and expressing design systems within Figma.
Experience with Figma features such as auto layout, components, variants, variables, and design tokens.
Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction, computer science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.
2 years of experience leading design projects.
Experience in ads, search, or related product spaces.
Experience driving technical development.
Excellent scripting and coding skills (e.g., developing React applications or Figma plugins).

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.

In this role, you will drive initiatives to reduce friction for designers when incorporating patterned solutions into their workflows and collaborate with engineering to improve production-facing code. You will navigate stakeholder networks across UX, engineering, and product management to mature the team's use of design patterns and systems.

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 $159,000-$231,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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

Accelerate the adoption of search design system tokens, patterns, and components within the Ads UI and SAGE UX teams.
Identify and deliver solutions that reduce friction for designers when incorporating patterned design solutions into their daily workflows.
Document, analyze, and propose initiatives that improve design productivity and accelerate project delivery through the better application of design systems.
Collaborate with engineering partners to identify and drive iterative quality improvements in production-facing code.
Navigate and manage stakeholder networks, including internal UX feature teams, engineering, product management, and partners within Search.

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.

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