Senior Staff Visual Designer

Google LLC; Seattle, Kirkland (WA, WA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days per year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days

Job summary

Google Seattle is seeking a Visual Designer to join our multi-disciplinary UX team. You will rely on user-centered methods to craft industry-leading experiences from concept to execution and collaborate with engineering and product management to evolve the Google design language.

In this role you will drive high-fidelity visuals and motion design, partner with cross-functional teams, and help turn ambitious ideas into tangible roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

Responsibilities

• Drive visual design and conceptual exploration for new features across Google Workspace.
• Execute high-fidelity motion design and build interactive prototypes. Leverage Gen AI tools to accelerate exploration and visualization.
• Turn complex future concepts into compelling visual narratives and tangible artifacts that communicate value.
• Partner with cross-functional product and engineering teams to translate concepts into actionable roadmaps.
• Advocate new design paradigms and present goals to drive adoption and implementation.

Skills

Portfolio

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Seattle, WA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; +3 more

X Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 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 collaborating with and influencing product, engineering, and leadership teams to adopt new design directions.
• Experience utilizing modern generative AI tools and workflows to enhance and accelerate the design and prototyping process.
• Experience navigating complex enterprise or productivity ecosystems.
• Proficiency in motion design (e.g., After Effects, Principle, or similar) and building interactive prototypes.
• Proven ability to ideate rapidly and explore multiple conceptual directions.
• Exceptional visual storytelling and presentation skills.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.

As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will 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 be the creative engine behind our next-generation experiences, operating at the intersection of practical product implementation and innovation. We need a designer who grows in ambiguity, excels at exploratory ideation, and can make the abstract feel real to bring product teams along on the journey.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

• Drive visual design and conceptual exploration for new, undefined product areas and innovative features across Google Workspace.
• Execute high-fidelity motion design and build interactive prototypes. Leverage modern Gen AI tools to accelerate the exploration, iteration, and visualization of new user experiences.
• Turn complex, future-facing concepts into compelling visual narratives and tangible artifacts that clearly communicate value.
• Partner closely with cross-functional product and engineering teams to transition 0-to-1 concepts into actionable roadmaps.
• Advocate new design paradigms and innovations, effectively presenting and "selling" your goal to different teams to drive adoption and implementation.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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