UX Designer, Google Photos

Google; Council of the City of Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Sydney is seeking an Interaction Designer to create intuitive user experiences for Google Photos. You will work closely with product managers and engineers, articulating user journeys and driving UX design. Ideal candidates should have experience in UX design processes and a strong ability to communicate ideas effectively. This role offers an opportunity to impact user experience for billions globally.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in creating user flows and wireframes.
• Experience in UX design processes.
• Ability to articulate design ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers on requirements.
• Articulate user journeys through detailed interaction specifications.
• Partner with User Experience Researcher on research.
• Drive UX design for Google Photos.

Skills

User journey creation

Collaboration

Prototyping

Interaction design

User research

Job description

Google place Sydney NSW, Australia

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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 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

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide solutions.
• Articulate user journeys with scenarios, storyboards and presentations, mock-ups, detailed interaction specifications, and prototypes to communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Partner with User Experience Researcher (UXR) on research hypothesis and participate in user research.
• Contribute to User Experience (UX) goal and strategy, generating buy-in and operationalizing the strategy across teams within the timeline as we deliver for launch and subsequent product iterations.
• Drive UX design for the evolution of Google Photos backup, onboarding and storage.