Google - Mountain View, CA

posted 2 months ago

Full-time - Entry Level
Mountain View, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services

About the position

At Google, Visual Designers weave iconography, typography, color, space, and texture together to help our users successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible. As a Visual Designer, you'll delight users with designs that inspire, engage, and excite them. You'll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to execution—across many platforms. Like all of our UX jobs, you'll collaborate with your fellow designers to constantly refine the Google design language and create innovative, great-looking products that people love to use. In this role, you will work directly with end users to ensure they use our products to their fullest potential. You will craft delightful experiences for the Google Help Experience. You will work with cross-functional partners to bring simplicity and elegance to complexity. You will create compelling design concepts and delightful user experiences that will directly influence the direction for new and emerging products. 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, behaviors, 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. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google's philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

Responsibilities

  • Create visual design directions for projects within the Help Experience team.
  • Deliver high-quality designs that are simple, cohesive, inclusive, and holistic from concept to execution.
  • Advocate for user-centered designs and work on last-mile refinement and polish.
  • Collaborate with design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build innovative products.
  • Communicate design intent and express concepts visually, support accessibility, internationalization, and product excellence, and use motion to communicate experience ideas.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g., Interaction, Graphic, Visual Communications, Product, Industrial, etc.), Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience in product design or User Experience (UX).
  • Experience with industry standard design tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVisio, Figma, Principle, etc.).
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

Nice-to-haves

  • Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience working with designers, researchers, engineers, content strategists, and product managers throughout the design process.
  • Ability to manage design issues, develop innovative solutions that address user pain points.
  • Ability to create compelling motion and visual designs, showcased through a combination of academic projects, personal initiatives, internships.
  • Ability to acquire new skills and knowledge, and make products globally inclusive and accessible.

Benefits

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