What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Interaction Designer, YouTube Trust and Safety position at YouTube?
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.
As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.
As a part of the Trust and Safety UX team, your mission is to understand online risks and harms and develop experiences that empower our community to safely explore and participate. You will build the infrastructure and tools that allow YouTube to enforce its community guidelines at scale while ensuring the community can participate safely. As the UX designer for Youth Safety and Emerging Bets, you will apply your expertise as a problem solver to understand and develop product solutions for Youth Safety and YouTube's newest investments. As a part of highly cross-functional role, you will require to partner with a variety of teams across YouTube to ensure we’re addressing safety across the entire platform.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 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 $189,000-$274,000 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.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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience with Trust and Safety, Design Strategy, or Interaction Design.
- 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.
- 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience with online responsibility and safety issues, and working with nascent technologies to identify audiences and use cases.
- Experience working with business and operations teams to understand drivers and find common ground between requirements.
- Experience communicating complex interaction concepts clearly to various audiences across organizational levels.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.
As a part of the Trust and Safety UX team, your mission is to understand online risks and harms and develop experiences that empower our community to safely explore and participate. You will build the infrastructure and tools that allow YouTube to enforce its community guidelines at scale while ensuring the community can participate safely. As the UX designer for Youth Safety and Emerging Bets, you will apply your expertise as a problem solver to understand and develop product solutions for Youth Safety and YouTube's newest investments. As a part of highly cross-functional role, you will require to partner with a variety of teams across YouTube to ensure we’re addressing safety across the entire platform.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 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 $189,000-$274,000 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
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across YouTube to identify, develop, and long-term user experience and product strategies for youth safety and new investments.
- Apply problem-solving expertise to understand and develop product solutions for youth safety challenges and YouTube's newest investments.
- Design UX frameworks and service models that clarify the solution space and address safety challenges facing the platform.
- Engage directly with product owners to prioritize and implement safer features, ensuring new products are safe for the community.
- Influence and guide adjacent design efforts by partnering with a variety of stakeholders to provoke new thinking on critical safety issues.