Staff Visual Designer, Search
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Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
Minimum qualifications:
- 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 implementing visual design systems across platforms in an iterative software development environment, applying design tools (e.g. Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch).
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in digital product design.
- Experience in system design, prototyping and motion design to enhance usability and delight, creating unique design language connected to the brand.
- Understanding of typography, color, prototype and visual storytelling.
- Ability to build partnerships with UX peers and cross-functional partners communicating recommendations, rationalizing design decisions and advocating for users needs.
- Ability to grow and deliver results in an ambiguous environment and distill complex processes into simple, clear user interactions.
- Portfolio demonstrating the command of visual design.
About the job
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.
In this role, you will serve as an expert for brand, graphic design, and visual design. You will collaborate with cross-functional peers to drive alignment.
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
- Prepare effective presentations and speak competently to the level of the audience advocating for design strategy and approach to partners analyzing or anticipating user needs and problems that may have multiple solutions.
- Lead discovery phase of projects helping create innovative experience concepts by defining the design principles, creating a brand interface design system, defining the foundational experience framework and mapping key features and white space.
- Collaborate with engineers to implement designs and help to create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends.
- Help elevate the overall design outcome of the team by providing guidance, meticulous feedback, and a design storytelling that is clear and exciting.
- Be passionate about all sides of design, branding, graphic design, typography and motion and be an advocate of design inside and outside the team.
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