Senior UX Designer, Search

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 goal 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 behaviours 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.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviours, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities.

Responsibilities:

• Test concepts for iteration, research, and validation.
• Conceive and deliver innovative and engaging prototypes.
• Drive explorations of experiences across a portfolio of features and products.
• Partner with executive members of the team, promote standards, and integrate changes into guidelines.
• Collaborate effectively across teams.
• Contribute to key projects, ensuring a holistic systems-thinking approach and advocating for user needs across platforms and applications.
• Foster a system-wide design mindset within the team.
• Identify emerging needs, develop interaction design best practices, and contribute to pattern documentation.
• Partner strategically with engineering, product, and Search Foundations.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 6 years of experience in product design or UX, developing or prototyping on Android or iOS.
• Motion design experience related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements.
• Experience in UI development for apps or operating systems (System UI).
• Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
• Include a portfolio or a link to your work in visual design on your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in prototyping and user research.
• Experience working within and contributing to design systems, as well as building accessible products.
• Experience in interaction design, and product thinking, with excellent visual design skills.
• Ability to articulate compelling stories and design decisions.
• Ability to design products, prototypes, and demonstrate advanced design skills, including high quality deliverables and processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present a clear design rationale.