Staff Visual Designer, Google Photos

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. Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
• Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
• Thrive in ambiguity and complexity. Be able to think strategically and adapt to address unforeseen changes.
• Take end-to-end creative concepts from storyboard all the way to high-fidelity design.

Requirements

• 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 in a creative role, with focus on storytelling.
• 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, or a related field.
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• Experience designing and shipping successful large scale digital products.
• Experience designing across platforms (e.g., Android, iOS and web).

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.