UX Designer, Geo Makers

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

UX Designer, Geo Makers

Company: Google

Location: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; +2 more; +1 more

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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

Minimum 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).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as a design engineer, creative technologist, front-end developer, or software engineer.


• Experience designing for developer ecosystems, API or SDK portals, component libraries, or cloud platforms.


• Experience with mapping APIs and SDKs, 3D and spatial rendering libraries, or geospatial tools.


• Experience designing for AI-assisted developer workflows, agentic tools, or Large Language Model (LLM) integrations.


• Experience addressing developer pain points across SDK integration, rate limits, schema definitions, and API error handling.

About the job

At Google, we \"Focus on the user and all else will follow.\" Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.

As a UX Designer for Developer Experience on the Geo Makers team, you will design and deliver developer-facing tools, reusable UI components, and interactive workflows across Google Maps platform and our geospatial toolset. You are a hybrid design engineer who treats code as a primary design medium, combining strong visual and interaction craft with front-end fluency. Thinking like a developer while upholding high visual standards, you will build tangible experiences in the browser and explore novel ways to showcase geospatial and AI capabilities. You will partner with product management, engineering, UX research, and developer relations to translate complex spatial Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Development Kits (SDKs), and agentic capabilities into intuitive developer experiences.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

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

US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.

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