Staff Interaction Designer, YouTube Music

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience with visual design in product or UX design environments.
• 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.
  
• Experience in Figma and advanced motion prototyping to create complex wire flows and high-fidelity interactive models.
• Experience designing for LLMs, generative AI, and conversational interfaces, with a solid understanding of algorithmic recommendation systems.
• Knowledge of the music and entertainment landscape, including current trends in digital media consumption.
• Presentation skills and the ability to articulate clear design and business rationales to executive stakeholders.

About the job

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 vision 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.

In this role, you will have regular opportunities to engage with the artists and managers who depend on our platform to grow their audiences and reach the world.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + 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

• Define intuitive interaction patterns and UI systems for YouTube Music and Gemini Integrations, focusing on conversational music discovery and natural language search.
• Apply deep expertise in LLM capabilities to translate complex prompt-based mix generation into seamless user experiences.
• Partner with Senior UX, Product Management, and Engineering teams to align on product goals.
• Create high-fidelity sketches, mockups, and prototypes to establish cohesive visual and voice-based interfaces for music and podcasts.
• Represent user needs and opportunities to executive stakeholders across YouTube, Music, and Living Room platforms.