Principal, Creative Director, Shopping UX

$253,000 - $363,000/Yr

Google - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

New York, NY

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services

About the position

As the Principal Creative Director for Google's Consumer Shopping UX team, you will be responsible for defining the brand and visual design for Google Shopping. This role involves shaping opportunities, defining strategic solutions, and enhancing the visual and motion design work across Google's product portfolio. You will lead cross-functional initiatives to develop a cohesive identity and visual language for new products, ensuring that Google Shopping provides a seamless and delightful experience for users and merchants alike.

Responsibilities

• Own and direct the creation of Google's shopping visual design language and system for use globally and across the product portfolio.
• Produce design strategies across the shopping portfolio, including opportunity identification, cross-product strategy creation, provocative product visions, and cross-portfolio user journeys.
• Own emergent, highly complex, and ambiguous opportunities from inception to a landed proposal.
• Frame opportunities, potential experience solutions, and drive initiative direction in partnership with key functional peers.
• Provide consultation to marketing on retail moments campaign creation; act as the conduit between product design and other creative functions.
• Set the standard and foster a culture for creative design practices; influence senior leaders on the visual identity of Shopping.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in interaction design, human computer interaction, industrial design or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience within design, or 13 years with an advanced degree.
• 10 years of experience with product, service, and solution design.
• 5 years of experience in brand, motion, or visual design.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using design to influence strategic decision making, communicate strategic concepts, and facilitate understanding.
• Experience developing an identity for an emerging product within a larger product ecosystem.
• Experience translating ambiguous asks and directions into clear user-centric approaches.
• Experience fostering divergent design thinking and advocating for radical ideas that can truly evolve products.
• Ability to drive impact across multiple cross-product initiatives with a complex group of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate positions to influence and challenge partners with new design thinking through storytelling.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement