Apps UX Senior Staff Designer, Search - Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• A portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
• Experience working with Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Product Managers throughout the design process.

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.

In this role, you will require a blend of business acumen, exceptional UX/visual design skills, and advanced prototyping expertise. You will transform complex ideas into compelling outlooks for our AI-powered Google Search app, shaping the future of search on iOS and Android.

In Google Search, were 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, youll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $214,000-$305,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Design concepts that balance speed and craft with accurate technical and strategic viability.
• Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, Design Leaders, Engineers, Researchers, and other partners to move designs from idea to reality.
• Communicate product ideas and rationale via well structured and clear presentations, to high fidelity prototypes.
• Present the work to executive leadership to gain approval or alignment, incorporating their guidance to deliver highly accurate results.
• Contribute to the evolution of our design language through visual excellence, motion, and gesture-based considerations.