Google is hiring: Senior Staff UX Designer, Google Labs in Boulder

Overview

Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers. We care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team collaborates closely with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for users and Google’s business.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. You’ll collaborate with design partners to evolve the Google design language and build products that people love to use.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for design strategies.
• Lead the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
• Own a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
• Lead design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that support business outcomes.
• Guide and provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for user research/testing.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience in visual design and prototyping.
• 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.
• 15 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 7 years of experience working in a changing cross-functional organization.
• 6 years of experience leading design projects.
• 5 years of experience working with executive leaders.
• Experience in UX prototyping for web applications, and technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and Java.

About The Job

Google follows a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google UX is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers. We care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team collaborates closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for users and for Google’s business.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. You’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

Compensation

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses to large brands to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $224,000-$315,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and other factors, including job-related skills, experience, and education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

Please note that compensation details listed in US role postings reflect base salary only and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Art/Creative, Design, and Engineering
• Industries: Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet

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