Staff UX Designer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience with design systems and collaborating with other UX functions, product management, and engineering to take products from concept to launch.
• A portfolio of work samples showcasing UX design in mobile and web applications.

  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience collaborating with a broad range of UX functions (e.g., writing, engineering, research).
• Experience in commerce domain.
• Ability to organize and facilitate design thinking workshops.
  
  

About The Job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

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 attitudes, emotions, and behaviors 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 an Interaction 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 Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete design process from design and concept level to pixel detailed execution and implementation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and manage concurring priorities within the work stream.
• Shape key parts of product strategy by driving the UX agenda and leading design discussions with cross-functional counterparts within our team and across consumer with a focus on our India market.
• Define opportunities into high quality UI designs and associated documentation for features on mobile and desktop platforms.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering teams and facilitate user-centric workshops across cross-functional partners to include design thinking into the development process.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .