Industrial Designer, Devices and Services
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's in Industrial Design or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
- Experience in design (e.g., proportions, color form, typography presentation).
- 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 the design process, including trend research, design strategy, concept development, and manufacturing execution.
- Experience in mechanical design, materials development, and manufacturing processes.
- Experience designing consumer electronics.
- Excellent sketching, form development, 2D/3D visualization, CAD modeling, and graphic skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.
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 behaviors and perceptions 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 a Visual 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.
We design industry leading products to deliver the best that Google has to offer.
In this role, you will shape the future by designing products at Google to delight and inspire millions of people worldwide. You are a design leader who is passionate about improving people's lives through design and technology. You are proactive, creative, engaged, progressive, open-minded and resourceful and you seek inspiration, empowerment, and tests.
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
Responsibilities
- Lead design programs from early concept through production, taking responsibility for creative output, schedule, and maintaining design integrity from start to finish, and keeping design leadership apprised of program status and issues affecting the team.
- Create presentation deliverables that may include research summaries, sketches, user scenarios, product renderings, and appearance models.
- Represent the design team in meetings and presentations to internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with and inspire members of the Product, Engineering, UX/UXR, Product Marketing, and Research teams to execute on project goals.
- Mentor and guide junior designers on the team.
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