Senior Visual Designer, Search, Growth UX

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

Retirement benefits: 401(k) with match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40–69 hours/year (Seattle)

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Visual Designer for the Search Growth UX team. You will join a multi-disciplinary UX group, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management to leverage user insights and craft industry-leading products.

You’ll work from a user-centered, app-first mindset to drive intuitive journeys, shaping design decisions with strong craft and AI-enabled prototyping. You will help define a cohesive design system and growth primitives for native iOS/Android.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• 5 years of visual design experience for consumer-facing native mobile apps (iOS/Android).
• Experience with Figma and AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows.
• Experience creating, extending, and governing design systems.
• Include a portfolio, website, or relevant link in your resume.

Responsibilities

• Join a multi-disciplinary UX team to create industry-leading products.
• Start from a user-centered, app-first mindset to craft intuitive user journeys.
• Define, evolve, and extend the design system across Google products.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to ensure scalable design.

Skills

Visual design

UX/UI

Design systems

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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

Tools

Figma

AI-assisted design tools

Job description

Senior Visual Designer, Search, Growth UX

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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• 5 years of visual design experience for consumer facing native mobile apps (e.g., iOS and Android).
• Experience with Figma and modern AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows.
• Experience creating, extending, and governing design systems.
• 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 designing consumer growth experiences (e.g., onboarding, contextual promos, widgets, notifications, sharing loops, or freemium/subscription upgrades).

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Visual 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 bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy.

As a Senior Visual Designer on the Search Growth UX team, you will ensure every pixel, typographic rhythm, optical alignment, and transition curve matters.

In this role, you won’t only apply an existing component library, you will help define and extend the design system itself. You will create and evolve a design system not just leverage one. Working at the intersection of Search’s evolving visual language and high-velocity mobile growth, you will invent and codify a new generation of native iOS and Android growth primitives.

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.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Visual 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 bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy.

As a Senior Visual Designer on the Search Growth UX team, you will ensure every pixel, typographic rhythm, optical alignment, and transition curve matters.

In this role, you won’t only apply an existing component library, you will help define and extend the design system itself. You will create and evolve a design system not just leverage one. Working at the intersection of Search’s evolving visual language and high-velocity mobile growth, you will invent and codify a new generation of native iOS and Android growth primitives.

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

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Mature and evolve the notion of framework by collaborating with other leads to form a cohesive offering across Google products.

• Work across programs to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management.
• Leverage principal contributors to explore concept development to influence product, a point-of-view around visual style, and product commitments.
• Defend Google products, our brand promise, and its unique value prop amid an interlaced relationship with Google’s master brand.
• Partner with visual programs within our organization to evolve and apply new design styles and aesthetics for our suite of products.

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