Vice President, User Experience

Job Description

With over 2 billion monthly users, YouTube has grown into a global community where people all over the world access information, share video, and shape culture. The YouTube team helps budding creators build careers, artists and Media Companies reach audiences, creates products like YouTube Kids, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV, and engages communities around shared passions and global conversations. Together, we empower the world to create, broadcast, and share.

As the Vice President for User Experience, you will lead the design and research organization for YouTube globally. You will use your UX expertise to continue to innovate and push the bounds of what YouTube is - for creators, consumers and brands alike. You'll work cross-functionally with partners across product, engineering, content partnerships, finance, marketing, regional leadership, policy, and communications, among others.

In this role, you will combine your deep understanding of the user with business acumen and the ability to drive excellent product development. Your work will influence product strategy to ensure the future is a place where YouTube thrives.

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 for this full-time position is $550,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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.

Resonsibilities:
• Create and drive a compelling vision and direction for YouTube, taking the app to the next level.

Influence across multiple product teams to deliver a cohesive and elegant user experience across surfaces.
• Lead, evolve, and inspire a team of passionate UX designers and researchers globally. Drive a healthy, inclusive culture and support collaboration and transparency between product areas, as well as multiple functions and locations.
• Act as an active, diplomatic leader with a vocal point of view, serving as a vanguard for expressive design and new standards.
• Possess an uncanny sense for envisioning and driving high-order logistics that scale the team and function, and promote a high bar for craft and quality across the organization.
• Drive operational and executional excellence while leading creative thinking at scale across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction, or equivalent practical experience.
• 20 years of experience leading UX for multi-disciplinary teams.

Preferred qualifications:
• Experience being recognized as UX leadership for high quality design accomplishments leading to significant business impact on a highly used consumer application.
• Experience creating, executing, and delivering against a product roadmap and driving business impact within a high level of complexity.
• Experience building and leading top performing design teams.
• Proficiency for empathetic, inclusive design that accounts for end-to-end user journeys which extend across a manifold of users, geographies, devices, products, and services.
• Ability to influence and drive product direction with cross-functional stakeholders at the VP and C-suite level.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3zj5n-18-117-81-240-42 in your application.