About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.

Seed Studio is an innovation group within Google hardware design working in the intersection of design strategy, advanced concepts and creative services to grasp and inform the future of hardware. Help us design, define, and build the future of human-computer interaction.

In this role, you will focus on ideating and prototyping new form factors and interfaces for agentic computing. You will be inventive in exploring novel paradigms that go beyond traditional models. You will partner closely with visual and motion designers, industrial designers, UX researchers, engineers, and product leads. You will craft compelling user journeys that make advanced technology personal, powerful, and delightful for everyone. As a core contributor, you will own project outcomes by leading the search for solutions to open-ended design problems, using storytelling and prototyping to communicate and validate new ideas.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + 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

• Drive discovery of future opportunities for Google hardware through the prototyping and validation of new form factors, interfaces, and interaction models.

• Solve ambiguous and complex design problems involving new paradigms for agentic computing.

• Work alongside strategists, visual/motion designers and creative technologists to shape product narratives and define product features.

• Partner with cross-functional and cross-product teams to align on and define product goal and strategy.

• Own, deliver and communicate design work with strategic reasoning behind design decisions.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.

• 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.

• 12 years of experience in interaction design, product design, or UX.

• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

• 5 years of experience designing interfaces for physical devices.

• 4 years of experience leading design projects.