Google Inc. is hiring: Staff UX Designer in San Francisco

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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.

Responsibilities

• Influence cross-functional stakeholders to gain support for design strategies, collaborating from early-stage concept development to iteration and execution.
• Drive the creation of innovative design solutions that address user needs, business objectives, and industry trends while furthering business outcomes.
• Build and iterate on Figma prototypes to communicate ideas, user journeys, and decision points, while exploring rapid visual design styles and interactions.
• Apply user-centered design principles, integrating UX research insights and AI-first interactions to create unique, multi-modal user experiences that drive product adoption.
• Provide direction to UX designers, manage priorities, dependencies, and stakeholders effectively, and independently drive work toward key milestones.

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.
• Experience with industry standard design tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVisio, Figma, Principle, etc.).
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience creating and maintaining robust, coherent design systems that are usable across various devices and platforms.
• Experience shaping processes to establish and sustain a scalable and consistent design language.
• Proven track record of exploring and implementing innovative communication modes that are delightful, understandable, and accessible for diverse user groups, including designers, developers, and end-users.
• Demonstrated ability to provide a strong design perspective with fluency in native app patterns and user experiences.
• Strong collaboration skills within cross-functional product teams, including working with engineering, writers, editors, and researchers to refine and validate design decisions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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