Staff Visual Designer, Workspace

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target (20%)

Equity grants

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Visual Designer for Workspace to lead visual design across Web, Android, and iOS, shaping a premium aesthetic and cohesive design language. You will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management, translating user insights into industry-leading experiences.

You will advocate visual design strategy for new features, manage design system standards, and guide cross-functional teams toward a unified Google Workspace experience that users love.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Include a portfolio, website, or relevant link to your work in your resume.

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 or user research/testing.

Skills

8 years UX/Product design

Portfolio required

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Staff Visual Designer, Workspace

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 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.
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 4 years of experience leading design projects.
• 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

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.

As a cornerstone of Google Workspace, Google Chat serves as the vital, real‑time hub where millions of teams brainstorm, connect, and innovate. We are currently reimagining Chat to be more intuitive, expressive, and intelligent, aiming to build an industry‑leading collaborative ecosystem.

As a Staff Visual Designer on the Google Chat UX team, you will influence the future of real‑time communication in a highly strategic and impactful role. You will oversee visual design outcomes for both established programs and emerging Google Chat initiatives, steering the visual strategy and designing high‑priority features across Web, Android, and iOS.

You will act as a subject‑matter expert in UI design, visual craft, and systems thinking. You thrive in ambiguous environments, establishing visual languages where no precedent exists and aligning cross‑functional leaders around a cohesive, premium aesthetic. In this role, you will advocate the visual design strategy for new features, manage design system standards, and act as a driving force for design excellence throughout the Google Workspace product area. User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: "Focus on the user and all else will follow."

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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 or user research/testing.

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