Senior UX Designer, Google Images, Search

Google LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a UX Interaction Designer to join our multi-disciplinary UX team, focusing on user-centered, app-first experiences for visualization and search products. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to craft intuitive journeys and scalable design systems across platforms.

You will bring strong craft, AI fluency, and the ability to balance execution with longevity of designs while aligning with broader product experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience designing for native app-first experiences (e.g., iOS, Android).
• Experience contributing to mature design systems including component design, documentation, and education.
• Experience designing for consumer-facing products.
• 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

App-first design

Design systems

Consumer products

Portfolio link

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AI tools

Job description

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. San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience designing for native app-first experiences (e.g., iOS, Android).
• Experience contributing to mature design systems including component design, documentation, and education.
• Experience designing for consumer-facing products.
• 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.
• Experience with emerging AI technologies, leveraging advanced tools to accelerate design iteration and drive product innovation.

About The Job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Interaction Designer, you’ll join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products. You’ll always start from a user-centered app-first mindset to drive intuitive, highly engaging user journeys for our products. You’ll bring a builder's mindset with strong craft and the ability to make design decisions that result in a coherent user experience while also assessing for execution, longevity and scale of designs. You’ll have an aesthetic sensibility, understanding relevant trends to make design decisions that increase the overall appeal of our product set. You’ll be a systems thinker with the ability to analyze existing landscapes and consider how factors or components interrelate with each other and within the context of larger systems. You’ll bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy. On the Google Images team you will help reimagining what it means to search and explore the world’s visual information – any way, anywhere and in ways that are hyper-personalized, multimodal and intelligent using the best of AI. Our mission is to create innovative, visually immersive and personalized experiences that empower purposeful and productive inspiration seeking and exploration. As part of the UX team, you’ll help us drive our vision forward to make Google Images a native-first, beautifully immersive experience that provides the best way to find, explore, and curate visual inspiration. 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.

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

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• 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.