User Experience Designer, Early Career

About the position

As a User Experience Designer at Google, you will focus on creating intuitive and user-friendly designs for various products. Your role will involve collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to understand user needs and behaviors, and to craft innovative user experiences from concept to execution. You will be responsible for developing user models, storyboards, mockups, and prototypes, ensuring that the design aligns with Google's user-centered philosophy.

Responsibilities

• Help to define the user model and user interface for Google products and features.
• Develop detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, writers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative solutions.
• Evaluate the usability of new and existing products and make constructive suggestions for change.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with industry standard design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVision, Figma, and Principle.
• Portfolio highlighting design principles for web or mobile platforms.

Nice-to-haves

• Certification in Grow with Google, UX Design, or similar.
• 1 year of experience working with designers, researchers, engineers, content strategists, and product managers throughout the design process.
• Experience designing across multiple platforms such as Android, iOS, and Web.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities