Interaction Designer, Wear OS

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of interaction design experience in product design or UX Design.
  
• Experience with UX industry tools such as Figma.
• 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 in prototyping.
• Knowledge of the user-centered design methodologies, with the ability to partner with UX Research.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders.
• Ability to work within an established system and push against the status quo for the betterment of the product and user experience.

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.

The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $110,000-$157,000 + 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

• Define user experience by delivering key design artifacts such as wireframes, user flows, storyboards, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes at various stages of the design process.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Designers, Researchers, Product Managers, and Engineers to define project requirements, manage timelines, and engage stakeholders.
• Work with UX research to gather data-informed insights that improve and optimize existing user experiences.
• Advocate for design excellence throughout the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring a high-quality user experience is maintained from concept to launch.
• Create detailed design proposals, providing guidance on patterns, standard procedures, animation, and transitions to drive projects from initial concept through to implementation.