Senior Interaction Designer, Android and Pixel UX

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Interaction Designer role in Mountain View focuses on transforming complex tasks into intuitive experiences for billions of users. You will craft flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management to evolve the Google design language.

The role emphasizes user-centered design from concept to execution across Android and Pixel UX, safeguarding data with privacy-first design and an emphasis on craft and accessibility.

Qualifications

• 6 years of interaction design experience in product or UX design.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.

Skills

Interaction design

UX design

Portfolio review

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Design / HCI / CS

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• 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.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 2 years of experience leading design projects.

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. Android and Pixel UX Design ensures this massive global ecosystem is high-quality, beautifully crafted, accessible, and intuitive across every form factor. The Android Security and Privacy UX team is critical to this mission. We design, establish, and evolve the platform guardrails that protect users, earn customer trust, and guide developers across the global Android and Pixel ecosystem. Our team balances robust threat protection with low-friction user experiences, ensuring security and privacy feel natural, transparent, and empowering. In this role, you will shape the foundation of digital trust for billions of users worldwide. You will own the critical platform surfaces that safeguard user data, leading complex initiatives from system-level permission architectures and proactive threat alerts to transparent on-device AI controls. We are looking for a systems-thinker with an eye for craft to balance robust ecosystem protection with frictionless user agency, helping us to set a new bar for intuitive, privacy-first design across the global Android ecosystem. Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .