About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.

As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design teams across Google to help them implement material design in their products.

• Partner across Google to solve specific product problems holistically, bringing visual and design system knowledge to make thoughtful and future-proof decisions.

• Establish and document visual systems for color, typography, shape, layout, etc., and continue to evolve the visual language and overarching story for material design.

• Define systems for brand expression in product and draw example screens showing elements of the design system in action.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.

• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant 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.

• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.

• Experience creating interactive and visual design elements.

• Experience in layout and composition.

• Experience with brand expression and style.