UX Designer II
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with industry standard design tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, etc.).
- 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 animation and designing in slides and documents.
- Understanding of typography, layout, color theory, and composition.
- Ability to balance multiple projects at once.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent visual design, communication and collaboration skills.
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.
In this role, you will build the best products possible, leverage the power of data and insights to truly understand the human experience.
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
- Help bring Human Understanding and Experience’s (HUE) brand to life through engaging and inspiring designs across a variety of platforms, collaborate with a diverse, talented team to create communications and designs that are accessible, visually engaging, and on-brand.
- Create brand familiarity and growth by adhering to brand guidelines and ensure all visual communications are aligned with our brand identity. Help in expanding and exploring the new brand expressions.
- Design email templates and create a variety of email templates for events, announcements, newsletters, and more.
- Craft presentation decks and work with various teams to design presentations that are engaging and informative, helping them effectively communicate their messages.
- Collaborate with partners from cross-functional teams to understand their needs and deliver designs that meet their objectives.
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