Staff Interaction Designer, Google Workspace

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 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.
  
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building and launching products from inception to release, contributing to both product strategy and design execution.
• Proficient in core UX skills, user-centered design methodologies, usability, prototyping, and content strategy.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering successful software design experiences for mobile and desktop.
• Ability to demonstrate meticulous attention to detail and a deep understanding of what makes a design both visually appealing and functionally effective.
• Ability to use design to influence strategic decision-making, communicate strategic concepts, and facilitate understanding.

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 Workspace is a cloud-based productivity suite serving over three billion active users and millions of paying businesses across the globe. Our team is responsible for delivering the Google Chat product that serves as the real-time communication channel connecting users across Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Meet and other collaboration tools in the suite.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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

• Guide the exploration of new product ideas through independent design solutioning, design sprints, experimentation, and cross-team collaboration, utilizing rapid prototyping and user testing to refine concepts and align them with product strategy.
• Communicate design solutions and their underlying rationale to stakeholders/users through design presentations, and collaborating on Product Requirements Documents (PRDs).
• Collaborate with UX, Product Management, and Engineering to shape product direction, ensuring that it aligns with both user needs and business goals.
• Partner with the UX Researcher team to advocate for user needs by incorporating user research and insights into all stages of product development.
• Develop a clear roadmap in partnership with leadership, maintain a clear backlog of projects/experiments, constantly re-ranking the projects/ideas as the roadmap evolves.