Senior Visual Designer, YouTube on TVs

Google; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC’s YouTube Living Room UX team is seeking a Senior Visual Designer to shape the visual language of YouTube on TVs. You will craft and maintain the Living Room design system, collaborating with engineering and product teams to deliver cohesive, accessible interfaces across devices.

You will drive high-fidelity prototyping, explore new visual styles, and influence product commitments while aligning with brand standards and long-term design strategy.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Craft, maintain, and evolve the Living Room design system component library, driving alignment with engineering and core foundations through robust documentation, strict variable consistency, and token adoption.
• Lead the integration of AI-assisted workflows into our design pipeline to enable rapid, high-fidelity prototyping of next-generation visual styles and experimental TV interaction patterns.
• Leverage principal contributors to explore concept development to influence product, a point-of-view around visual style, and product commitments.
• Defend YouTube products, our brand promise, and its unique value proposition amid an interlaced relationship with YouTube’s master brand.
• Partner with visual programs within our organization to evolve and apply new design styles and aesthetics for our suite of products.

Skills

Figma

Visual design

TV UI design

Motion design

AI-assisted workflows

HTML & CSS

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Design / related field

Tools

Figma

Design systems tooling

Job description

Share Senior Visual Designer, YouTube on TVs

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
  
• Experience using figma to design, maintain, and component libraries and 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 with motion design, interactive prototyping, and front-end web technologies (such as HTML and CSS).
• Experience with AI-assisted design workflows, vibe coding, or connecting design systems to development environments (such as Model Context Protocol).
• Experience designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs) for TV platforms or smart TV devices.

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.

Come join the YouTube Living Room UX team!

As a Senior Visual Designer, you will shape the visual future of YouTube on TVs–YouTube’s largest and fastest-growing screen, which has crossed over 1 billion monthly active users and 1 billion daily watch hours. You will craft the language of TV design systems, elevate aesthetics, and pioneer the intersection of design systems and AI-assisted prototyping. In this role, you will collaborate across disciplines to build beautiful, cohesive, and accessible user experiences that bring the best of YouTube to millions of living rooms worldwide.

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.

Come join the YouTube Living Room UX team!

As a Senior Visual Designer, you will shape the visual future of YouTube on TVs–YouTube’s largest and fastest-growing screen, which has crossed over 1 billion monthly active users and 1 billion daily watch hours. You will craft the language of TV design systems, elevate aesthetics, and pioneer the intersection of design systems and AI-assisted prototyping. In this role, you will collaborate across disciplines to build beautiful, cohesive, and accessible user experiences that bring the best of YouTube to millions of living rooms worldwide.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

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 .

• Craft, maintain, and evolve the Living Room design system component library, driving alignment with engineering and core foundations through robust documentation, strict variable consistency, and token adoption.
• Lead the integration of AI-assisted workflows into our design pipeline to enable rapid, high-fidelity prototyping of next-generation visual styles and experimental TV interaction patterns.
• Leverage principal contributors to explore concept development to influence product, a point-of-view around visual style, and product commitments.
• Defend YouTube products, our brand promise, and its unique value proposition amid an interlaced relationship with YouTube’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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