Senior Visual Designer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days per year

Job summary

Google in Mountain View, CA, and Seattle, WA, seeks a Senior Visual Designer to shape the visual language of our AI-driven web experiences. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate user insights into industry-leading visuals, crafting delightful, accessible products across platforms.

You will work within the Gemini in Chrome team, defining how users interact with AI, from dynamic interfaces to autonomous agents that assist users, driving design across the product from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of novel AI paradigms. Design beyond static screens, creating adaptive interfaces that accommodate non-deterministic, generative outputs.
• Use core visual principles like typography, space, layout, and color to elevate the UX into a premium, magical experience that sets a new global standard.
• Guide cross-functional peers through design sprints, rapid prototyping, and critiques specifically tailored to the unique constraints and vast opportunities of GenAI.
• Present your designs to stakeholders with a strong articulation of design rationale. Collaborate with engineers to ensure your designs are implemented to specifications, sweating the details until the final product feels effortless.

Skills

Visual design

UX/UI design

Portfolio

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Figma

Job description

corporate_fare Google place Mountain View, CA, USA ; Seattle, WA, USA Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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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: Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI 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:

• Proficiency in Figma, with the ability to leverage AI to accelerate design workflows.
• Track record of owning creative work from concept to execution by combining bold decision-making with high-level craft, while driving cross-disciplinary alignment through exceptional storytelling.
• Ability to be comfortable giving and receiving feedback in a fast-paced creative environment, with a focus on radical candor and rapid iteration.
• Ability to distill complex UX research into sharp, actionable, and futuristic visual strategies.

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.

The Gemini in Chrome team is on a mission to fundamentally reimagine the web browser. As a Senior Visual Designer, you will help us blend the world’s most popular browser with the world’s most powerful AI. This isn’t just about building a chatbot in a side panel; it’s about crafting the visual language for a new, agentic web that empowers users to be creative. In this role, you will define how users interact with AI natively, from dynamic conversational interfaces to autonomous agents that act on the user's behalf. This role offers a rare opportunity to pitch, prototype, and pioneer the next decade of human-computer interaction. If you have a passion for pushing visual boundaries and the technical mastery to build what others can only imagine, your future starts here.

Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way. Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.

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.

• Drive the execution of novel AI paradigms. Design beyond static screens, creating adaptive interfaces that accommodate non-deterministic, generative outputs.
• Use core visual principles like typography, space, layout, and color to elevate the UX into a premium, magical experience that sets a new global standard.
• Guide cross-functional peers through design sprints, rapid prototyping, and critiques specifically tailored to the unique constraints and vast opportunities of GenAI.
• Present your designs to stakeholders with a strong articulation of design rationale. Collaborate with engineers to ensure your designs are implemented to specifications, sweating the details until the final product feels effortless.

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.

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