UX Designer, Developer Experience - Geospatial Maps

Google LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation 20 days

Sick leave 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28–30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Paid holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google is seeking a UX Designer for the Geo Makers team in New York and other locations. The role focuses on developer-facing tools, reusable UI components, and interactive workflows across Google Maps platform and geospatial toolset.

You’ll blend design and front-end craft, work with APIs/SDKs, and help translate complex spatial APIs into intuitive experiences. You will collaborate with product management, engineering, UX research, and developer relations to deliver industry-leading maps and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Responsibilities

• Design and ship core features and workflows across the developer journey, including API discovery, interactive capability evaluation, SDK onboarding, credential setup, and usage guidance.
• Design interactive API references, live code playgrounds, sandboxes, and AI-assisted developer workflows that let developers test endpoints and visualize spatial data in real time.
• Combine front-end code (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) with AI prototyping tools to build interactive experiences and explore novel ways to represent geospatial capabilities.
• Contribute to and maintain reusable design system patterns and code-aligned components for developer surfaces, including SDK UI kits, schema visualizers, interactive code blocks, and map canvas controls.
• Partner closely with engineering, product management, developer relations, and UX research to evaluate technical trade-offs, bridge design and implementation, and advocate for API usability and developer ergonomics.

Skills

Interaction design

Mentoring

Problem solving

Portfolio link

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design / HCI / CS

Tools

Mapping APIs

SDKs

3D rendering libraries

Geospatial tools

Job description

Google is seeking a UX Designer for the Geo Makers team in New York and other locations. The role focuses on developer-facing tools, reusable UI components, and interactive workflows across Google Maps platform and geospatial toolset.

You’ll blend design and front-end craft, work with APIs/SDKs, and help translate complex spatial APIs into intuitive experiences. You will collaborate with product management, engineering, UX research, and developer relations to deliver industry-leading maps and