Staff Visual Designer, Material Design

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience with interactive and visual design.
• Experience in layout and composition.
• Experience with brand expression and style.
• 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 with design systems, including abstract thinking about second order effects of choices at the system level
• Experience with visual design for software products.
• Experience leading large-scale creative collaboration sprints and workshops.
• Excellent creative coding, interaction design, illustration, motion design, and iconography skills.

About the job

At Google, Visual Designers weave iconography, typography, color, space and texture together to help our users successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible. As a Visual Designer, you’ll delight users with designs that inspire, engage and excite them. You’ll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to execution—across many platforms. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your fellow designers to constantly refine the Google design language and create innovative, great-looking products that people love to use. The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Explore new visual language and over-arching story for the Material Design system and design specific components and subsystems.
• Define systems for brand expression in product, and establish and document visual systems for color, typography, shape, layout etc.
• Draw example screens showing elements of the design system in action.
• Collaborate with design teams across Google to help them implement Material Design in their products.
• Collaborate effectively with interaction and motion designers, engineering, research, product, and writing within Google Design Platform to ship a functioning system.