Senior Interaction Designer, Geo

$142,000 - $211,000/Yr

Google - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

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About the position

As an Interaction Designer at Google, you will focus on creating intuitive and user-friendly experiences for billions of users worldwide. Your role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to design and refine products, particularly in the Geo team, which is dedicated to enhancing mapping services. You will utilize user-centered design methods to develop user flows, wireframes, and prototypes, ensuring that the design process is informed by user insights and technical constraints.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience designing across multiple platforms and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 2 years of experience leading design projects.
• 1 year of experience working with executive leaders.
• Problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (Android and iOS).
• Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features within a user-centered design process.
• Skills in communicating and influencing product design strategy.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Wellness programs