Senior UX Manager, Messages Monetization and Protection

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.

Messages is Google’s largest and fastest-growing texting app, approaching a user base of two billion. While we are building the future of modern messaging across the global ecosystem, we are in need for a design leader to run the Messages Monetization and Protection pillar (MMP).

As part of RCS for Business, you will lead the design team pioneering the next wave of global conversational commerce—enabling rich, interactive, and AI-driven shopping and customer experiences inside the native texting app for both Android and iOS users.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Drive the development of design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
  
• Guide the development and delivery of RCS for business outlook and strategy.
• Identify innovation paths for Messages protection across spam, scams, and other privacy-minded areas of interest.
• Advocate the blueprint for conversational AI commerce, designing fluid, adaptive interfaces for LLM-driven consumer interactions.
• Reshape the enterprise experience by designing intuitive agent management and monitoring systems.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
  
• 3 years of experience designing for native mobile applications including across a variety of device types.

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 designing end-to-end features that work through the full lifecycle of design from kickoff through implementation as both an executive-level IC and as a front line manager.
• Experience working in AI assisted workflows for designers with portfolio examples highlighting functional prototypes or shipped work.
• Portfolio highlighting multiple projects that focus on usable, modern, well-thought-out UX with examples from both Consumer and Enterprise applications.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.

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 (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year