UI/UX Design Lead - Applied AI, Engineering

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At Google Operations Center we help Google users and customers solve problems and achieve their goals—all while enjoying a culture focused on improving continuously and being better together. We work hard, we play hard, and we want you to join us!

The Design & User Experience team is the engine driving the creation of intuitive, scalable, and human-centered digital experiences across the Google Operations Center (GOC) network. As the UI/UX & Platform lead, you will manage platform design maintenance, execute fast-turnaround feature enhancements, and enforce design system alignment across all GOC enterprise tools. In this role, you will fully insulate core development sprints from BAU disruptions while maintaining a consistent, high-quality UI standard across the entire suite of applications.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Manage ongoing platform design maintenance and execute fast-turnaround UI enhancements to support BAU needs.

• Maintain, scale, and enforce design system standards across all GOC enterprise tools and AI platforms to ensure UI consistency.

• Insulate core engineering and product development sprints by rapidly addressing operational design updates, bug fixes, and minor workflow tweaks.

• Establish feedback mechanisms with regional operations to identify daily UI/UX friction and rapidly translate user needs into refined components.

• Standardize platform support workflows by creating reusable UI assets, design documentation, and design component specs.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia Arts, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design, platform maintenance, or design system management.

• Experience managing and contributing to centralized enterprise design systems and component libraries.

• Demonstrated experience handling rapid-turnaround UI updates, platform support tickets, or fast-paced design enhancements.

• Global Stakeholder engagement experience required for cross collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Success executing UI design maintenance across enterprise software, proprietary platforms, or AI workflow tools.

• Expertise in Figma design system library management, component variant creation, and design tokens.

• Proven ability to translate user feedback and operational friction into clean, compliant UI enhancements without disrupting core engineering sprints.

Benefits

• We support you with competitive wages and with comprehensive health care including medical, dental and vision coverage

• We support your family with gender-neutral baby bonding leave, 18 week birth-parent maternity leave, and generous life, accident and disability insurance minimums

• Employees who work onsite can enjoy free meals and snacks, and fun onsite experiences

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Thanks for your interest in this opportunity! Our recruitment team will contact you if your profile is a good fit for the role. If you don't hear from us within 2-3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time. We value your patience throughout this time. For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].