UX Designer, YouTube Watch

About the UX Designer, YouTube Watch Role at Google

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that direction to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

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 an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

The Watch team works on YouTube’s primary viewing experience across phones, tablets, and web. We design the experience that users see when watching videos on YouTube.

As an Interaction Designer on the Watch UX team, you will have the opportunity to work on design systems and features used on YouTube's critical surfaces and journeys.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities and explore net-new product innovations that expand Watch System by identifying emerging user needs.
• Develop a user experience strategy and lead cross-functional stakeholders to land solutions that drive product impact.
• Navigate and define a sustainable approach to solve difficult problems, ensuring high design quality and longevity across the product path.
• Utilize excellent storytelling skills to communicate design positions and challenge partners with new product design thinking.
• Prioritize team success by fostering a welcoming environment, helping teammates, and coaching other designers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• 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.
• 2 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.
• 1 year of experience leading design projects.
• Experience building and contributing to a design system that ensures cross-platform consistency and quality.
• Experience in Figma, and with motion design and vibe coding along with the ability to produce user flows, high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with an understanding of how to best position and present design work to a range of audiences.

Key skills/competency

• User Experience (UX)
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• Figma
• Prototyping
• User Flows
• Design Systems
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• User-Centered Design
• Storytelling