Senior UX Designer, Google Images, Search

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

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Job summary

Google Images team seeks a Senior UX Designer to reimagine search and image exploration with a user-centered mindset, collaborating across engineering and product management to create visually immersive, intelligent experiences.

You will contribute to design systems, bring AI fluency to prototyping, and supervise end-to-end user journeys across Search and Images, delivering scalable, accessible interfaces for billions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

Responsibilities

• 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

UX design

Design systems

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Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Design, HCI, CS or related field

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Senior UX Designer, Google Images, Search

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
  
• Experience contributing to mature design systems including component design, documentation, and education.
• 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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

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.
  

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