Senior Visual Designer, Design Systems, Search
Google - Mountain View, CA
posted 2 days ago
About the position
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. As an Executive Visual Designer, you will have experience with visual design skills along with contributing to design systems and libraries at scale. You will know a design system is as much about how we work together as it is about documentation. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Create and extend interaction patterns, reconcile design divergences, and craft design frameworks that support user experiences. Define the style and provide direction for the visual artifacts.
- Partner with product areas to advocate for the team, promote standards, and integrate changes into guidelines. Collaborate across functional teams.
- Identify emerging needs, develop interaction design best practices, and contribute to interaction pattern documentation.
- Lead or contribute to key projects, ensuring a holistic systems-thinking approach and advocating for user needs across platforms and applications.
- Partner strategically with engineering, product, and Search Foundations to define the future of design systems at Search and Google.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
- Experience designing for mobile applications for iOS and Android.
- Experience as a feature or product designer working with design systems.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and implementing design systems for multi-platform products.
- Experience in contributing to design processes that promote a consistent and scalable design language.
- Experience developing and implementing new communication strategies that meet the changing needs of our users (both designers/developers and users) in ways that are understandable and accessible.
- Ability to use app patterns and design best practices to create user-friendly mobile experiences.
Benefits
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
