Senior UX Design Manager, Cloud

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this goal 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.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.”

Drive the development and adoption of a modular, and API-first Continuous Delivery ecosystem that unifies policy enforcement, observability, and infrastructure orchestration across all Google environments to accelerate developer velocity, supporting Google's CD tools that handle 154+ million deployments annually across Alphabet.

Transform how production incidents are detected, mitigated, and managed, centering the strategy on Autonomous AI agents which will forecast and mitigate potential outages before they ever manifest.

Deliver a simple, intelligent, and comprehensive platform that ensures unified and reliable observability across Alphabet by leveraging AI/ML for proactive insights and automated solutions, while providing personalized, adaptive user experiences.

Build Cloud’s unified, enterprise-grade AI foundation that enables developers and organizations to build, scale, govern, and optimize autonomous agents across multi-cloud environments.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, computer science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

10 years of experience in product design, leading and shipping consumer mobile products.

4 years of direct people management experience.

Experience in building and shipping AI products, and integrating AI/ML technologies into user workflows, and using AI-driven tools to design workflows.

Include a portfolio, website, or any other link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in resolving complex technical and organizational constraints, particularly within in-car platforms or mobile ecosystems.

Experience translating evolving directions into user-centric approaches and driving impact across multiple cross-product initiatives with a group of stakeholders.

Proficiency in using data and user analytics to inform design strategy and measure business impact.

Ability to influence executives and cross-functional partners through compelling goal narratives.

Strong grasp of emerging AI technology and trends.