Senior Staff UX Designer

Design at Waymo is about the total experience-not just how the product looks, but how it works, how it feels, and how we make our new technology accessible, approachable, and useful for everyone. We design the intuitive, delightful experience for our riders, and we also build the powerful, complex tools used by our fleet operations teams and the engineers who build the Waymo Driver. We are a highly multidisciplinary team of UX Designers, User and Market Researchers, UX Engineers, Content Designers, Industrial Designers, CAD Designers, Studio Engineers, and Technical Artists. We dig deep to understand the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of all our users. This understanding serves as the foundation for everything we create.

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports and you will report to a Manager of UX Design.

You will:

• Lead the design strategy and execution for complex, ambiguous product areas, driving alignment from early concept through to launch
• Take ownership of large-scale product domains, identifying new opportunities and driving high-impact improvements that ladder up to user needs and business goals
• Elevate the entire team's work by championing design excellence, providing high-impact critique, and actively mentoring other designers
• Act as a strategic partner to leaders across product, engineering, and research, driving alignment, navigating ambiguity, and influencing key decisions
• Articulate and champion the "why" behind complex design decisions and long-term strategy to senior leadership and executive stakeholders
• Define and drive product strategy, owning key decisions that shape the multi-year roadmap and vision for your product area

You have:

• 7-15 years of relevant product design experience, with a clear track record of leading complex, ambiguous, and high-impact projects
• Proven mastery across the core design stack, with deep expertise in interaction design, visual design, and system-level thinking
• A track record of owning the full design lifecycle for large-scale, ambiguous 0->1 or 1->N products, skillfully managing trade-offs
• Demonstrated success leading and collaborating closely with cross-functional partners and senior leadership
• Ability to clearly and persuasively articulate design rationale, using user research and structured thinking to guide decisions
• A strong portfolio demonstrating shipment of high-impact, product platforms and features from concept to launch

We prefer:

• A genuine passion for emerging AI tools (like Google AI Studio, Figma Make, and other AI platforms) and their practical application within the product design process