Senior Visual Designer

Google; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement 401(k)

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to join the Gemini in Chrome initiative and shape AI-powered browser experiences. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary UX team to craft adaptive interfaces, leveraging user-centered methods from concept to execution.

With 6+ years of visual design experience and a strong portfolio, you will define the visual language, push design boundaries, and work with engineers to deliver polished products across desktop and mobile.

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.
• Define the visual cues and novel design patterns that communicate AI states. Craft the micro-interactions that build user trust - visually articulating how the browser behaves when it's thinking, reading a page, or taking an action.
• 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 tailored to GenAI.
• Present your designs to stakeholders with strong rationale; collaborate with engineers to ensure implementations meet specs.

Skills

Visual design experience

Figma

AI design experimentation

Experience with AI-powered products

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Portfolio link

Job description

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.

Minimum 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).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in designing AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, and browser-based tools, backed by a habit of active experimentation with emerging AI technologies to expand what's creatively possible.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of novel AI paradigms. Design beyond static screens, creating adaptive interfaces that accommodate non-deterministic, generative outputs.
• Define the visual cues and novel design patterns that communicate AI states. Craft the micro-interactions that build user trust - visually articulating how the browser behaves when it's "thinking," "reading a page," or "taking an action."
• 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 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.