Senior Visual Designer, Hardware Job at Google in San Francisco

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• 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.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross‑functional organization.
• 2 years of experience in leading design projects.

About the Job

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.

Design is at the forefront of everything we do. As a Visual Designer on the Google Hardware team, you will leverage your breadth as a designer with your depth in graphic design, motion, or 3D visualization to define every aspect of an emerging device category with very little precedent in the real world.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices and Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices and Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Compensation

The U.S. base salary range for this full‑time position is $151,000–$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Pay is determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Mature and evolve the notion of framework by collaborating with other leads to form a cohesive offering across Google products.
• Work across programs to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management.
• Leverage principal contributors to explore concept development to influence product, a point‑of‑view around visual style, and product commitments.
• Defend Google products, our brand promise, and its unique value proposition amid an interlaced relationship with Google’s master brand.
• Partner with visual programs within our organization to evolve and apply new design styles and aesthetics for our suite of products.

Google is proud to be 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.

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Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Art/Creative, Design, and Engineering

Industries: Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet