Senior UX Designer, Google Home

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with interaction design in product design or User Experience (UX) design.
• Experience in User Experience (UX) with visual design (e.g., typography, color theory, and visual storytelling).
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other related link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with working in a cross-functional organization.
• 2 years of experience in leading design projects.
• Experience in working with teams in consumer settings with focus on detailed aspects of visual and motion design, related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements with the ability to use motion to express sentiments.
• Experience in leading design language and systems development, with the knowledge of their trends/usage.
  
  

About the jobAt 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 help to evolve the experience for discovering, activating, and managing new capabilities for the home as delivered by the subscription service, Google Home Premium. You will act as the advocate for the end user, and partner with user research to understand users.The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team

researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make

users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a

home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at multiple stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.
• Create narratives, executive summaries, and presentations to align stakeholders to establish a shared goal.
  
  
  

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 .