Senior UX Visual Designer, Core Search Experience Job at Google in Mountain View

Overview

Senior UX Visual Designer, Core Search Experience

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.

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 plays an integral part in gathering insights about the behaviors and perceptions of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As a Visual Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, 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.

In Google Search, we’re reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities and requirements are listed below.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end work with other designers, and alongside stakeholders, to establish powerful and visually compelling design solutions.
• Create design deliverables, including storyboards, user flows, wireframes, mocks, prototypes, and carefully crafted visual specifications.
• Collaborate closely with user researchers to establish research direction and better inform designs through a users’ point of view.
• Balance platform constraints, technical limitations, and stakeholder needs to deliver intuitive and effective design solutions.
• Establish common/shared design resources, patterns, libraries, and templates that ensure design coherence across all projects, products, and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience designing, building, or launching consumer-facing products.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing across multiple platforms, working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
• Experience collaborating with user researchers, content strategists, product managers, and engineers.
• Knowledge of user-centered design methodologies and usability.
• Ability to design a portfolio showing fluency with visual and interaction design tools and work within a highly technical environment, technical requirements and limitations.
• Excellent core visual and interaction design skills.

About The Job

Google is an equal opportunity workplace and 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.

Note: Minimum qualifications and preferred qualifications are listed above. Salary information is provided per location and may vary.