Staff Visual Designer: Lead Design Systems & Strategy

Google; United States; On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Visual Designer for YouTube in Mountain View, CA. You will join a multi-disciplinary UX team to shape visual language across products, driving brand space, typography, color, and iconography to deliver accessible, beautiful experiences.

You will lead design strategies from concept to execution, influence stakeholders, and collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to evolve the Google design language and create industry-leading, user-centered products that

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience implementing visual design systems across platforms in an iterative software development environment, applying design tools (e.g. Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch).
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
• Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
• Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
• Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.
• Provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing.

Skills

UX design

Design systems

Stakeholder influence

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Figma

Photoshop

Illustrator

Sketch

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Visual Designer for YouTube in Mountain View, CA. You will join a multi-disciplinary UX team to shape visual language across products, driving brand space, typography, color, and iconography to deliver accessible, beautiful experiences.

You will lead design strategies from concept to execution, influence stakeholders, and collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to evolve the Google design language and create industry-leading, user-centered products that