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 Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Drive UX design for key sharing flows and establish partnerships with third-party apps.

• Translate user needs into compelling designs through user journeys, storyboards, low/high-fidelity mockups, detailed interaction specifications, and interactive prototypes.

• Collaborate with Google Photos and other Google Product teams across time zones to develop innovative solutions.

• Simplify complex concepts into clear and relatable narratives that represent real user experiences.

• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years of experience in product design or User Experience (UX).

• 4 years of experience interacting with clients/leadership and owning projects.

• Experience in designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.

• 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.

• 4 years of experience in designing for consumer-facing products.

• Experience with motion design and quick prototyping (e.g., principle, framer etc.).

• Knowledge of technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (e.g., Android and web).

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence product design strategy.

• Excellent problem-solving and visual design skills.