Senior Hybrid Visual and Motion Designer, Search

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in Product Design, Visual Design, Motion Design, or UX.
  
• Experience implementing visual design systems across platforms in an iterative software development environment, applying Figma and other design tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects).
  
• 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 building brands or creating a branded interface, visual identity that elevates the UI experience.
  
• Experience building/evolving design systems and motion design to enhance usability and delight.
  
• Ability to create great partnerships with UX peers and cross-functional partners communicating recommendations, rationalizing design decisions and advocating for users’ needs were critical.
  
• Ability to grow and deliver results in an ambiguous environment and distill complex processes into simple, clear user interactions.
  
• Ability to communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale within a user-centered design process.

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.

As a Hybrid Visual and Motion Designer on our Immersive Studio team, you will create stunning, brand-consistent designs that push creative boundaries. You will understand user-centered design, utilize various tools, and collaborate with teams to bring your innovative solutions to life. Your passion for modern design and staying ahead of industry trends will shine through in your impactful user experiences. You will go beyond functionality, crafting delightful and surprising moments unique to each project.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Mature and evolve the notion of framework by collaborating with other leads to form a cohesive offering across Google products.
• Work across programs to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management.
• Leverage principal contributors to explore concept development to influence product, a point-of-view around visual style, and product commitments.
• Maintain and evolve Google products, our brand promise, and its unique value prop amid an interlaced relationship with Google’s master brand.
• Partner with visual programs within our organization to evolve and apply new design styles and aesthetics for our suite of products.