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UX Design Manager, YouTube Illustration and Imagery

Google

San Bruno, CA

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Animation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Brand Strategy, Capacity Management, Cross-Functional, Ecosystems, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Leadership, Leading Edge Technology, Legal, Licensing, Mentoring, Metrics, Operations Management, People Management, Problem Solving Skills, Product Design, Product Management, Product Strategy, Project Tracking, Team Lead/Manager, Time Management, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), YouTube
LOCATION
San Bruno, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Bruno, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • 3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
  • 3 years of consumer product design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in managing and mentoring creative teams, with a track record of fostering individual and team growth.
  • Experience managing and scaling creative production using a blend of in-house resources, vendors, and AI pipelines.
  • Understanding of design systems and how to translate brand strategy into cohesive and scalable visual guidelines.
  • Understanding of brand guidelines, cultural sensitivities, and legal/licensing rules for creative content.

About the job

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. In this role, you will join a new team as an experienced creative leader, driving illustration production for YouTube UX. You will lead the team, mentor talent, and define the creative goal for a new illustration style across all of YouTube, shaping the visual language for billions of users.As a part of a leadership position, you will guide creative talent, manage cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and actively roll up your sleeves to support the team. You will advance the growth of a scalable pipeline for generating visual assets, leveraging a blend of in-house talent, external artists, and AI-driven methods. Your role requires a systematic approach to creative output, ensuring brand consistency and operational efficiency across all products and platforms.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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Define a new illustration style for all of YouTube, ensuring creative excellence and brand consistency (involving community-based artists where applicable).
  • Mentor and guide the team in creating high-quality illustration and animation work, setting creative standards and fostering professional growth.
  • Create and implement internal guidelines for illustration and animation.
  • Manage and organize all visual assets, exporting for various formats and colorways for different themes.
  • Lead team capacity planning, monitor project metrics, and ensure successful, timely delivery of initiatives.
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.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V

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