Senior UX Engineer, Ads Privacy and Safety

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience in application development in at least one platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, Extended Reality (XR), CompDes).

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
• 5 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
  
• Experience with modern web front-end frameworks and programming languages (e.g., Angular, ReactJS, NextJS, Python, Typescript, etc.).
• Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
• Experience working in user trust, areas with high sensitivity or regulation, or understanding of the regulatory landscape.

About the job:

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and goals for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

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 a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.

The Ads Privacy and Safety team protects billions of users from being exposed to inappropriate ads and help enforce regulations and policies for content related to some of the most pressing issues of our time. We increase user trust by finding user-friendly solutions to today’s regulatory environment and giving users agency over the ads they see.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + 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:

• Drive project work by implementing and updating the user experience by writing code.
• Participate in project meetings with stakeholders (e.g., product managers, software engineers) and provide technical input and inform project decisions on user experience development.
• Identify user experience and technical issues. Develop prototypes from functional/technical specifications.
• Evaluate potential and feasibility for new features by prototyping, soliciting feedback and solving problems from a broader technical perspective. 
• Collaborate with UX designers, researchers and strategists on the team to build core features, fix usability issues, write documentation and onboard new users to the tools.