Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience as an interaction designer.
- Experience in UX prototyping for web applications, and technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and Java.
- Experience designing and leading mobile, desktop professional worker product software or services.
- Ability to grow in a fast-paced environment, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.
- Excellent people management, communication, collaboration, and visual design skills.
About the job
At Google, we follow 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 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 attitudes, emotions, and behaviors 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 an Interaction 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 this role, you will collaborate with product managers and engineers to design and prototype solutions. You will be responsible for understanding the user needs to refine the product experience.
Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.
Responsibilities
- Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
- Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
- Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
- Provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing.
- Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.