Visual Designer, Home UX Studio

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Visual Designer for the Home UX Studio to craft scalable visual systems across Google Home hardware and software. You will collaborate with engineering and product management to translate user insights into beautiful, accessible interfaces that delight users in their homes.

As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will contribute to conceptualization, prototyping, and the evolution of Google’s design language, bridging design with production workflows while delivering high

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• Experience using industry-standard design and prototyping tools (such as Figma) to build the UI components and visual systems.
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools, automated workflows, and design-to-code pipelines to accelerate prototyping, automate system maintenance, and bridge design with engineering.
• 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 evolve scalable visual systems that bridge mobile app surfaces, new Home hardware devices, and ambient computing experiences.
• Use AI workflows, Vibe Coding, and internal tools like Jetski to rapidly explore ideas, validate visual systems, and bridge the gap between design and production.
• Jump into high-priority product initiatives across the Home UX portfolio to design standout features and user experiences alongside product, engineering, and motion partners.
• Infuse strong visual design principles, typography, color, and emotional expression into hardware and software products made for everyday life at home.
• Work closely with the Material Design team and cross-functional partners to ensure our design language remains consistent, accessible, and expressive across every screen and device.

Skills

Visual design experience

Figma

AI tooling for prototyping

Portfolio/documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in Design/HCI/CS or related

Tools

Figma

Job description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• Experience using industry-standard design and prototyping tools (such as Figma) to build the UI components and visual systems.
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools, automated workflows, and design-to-code pipelines to accelerate prototyping, automate system maintenance, and bridge design with engineering.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• Experience using industry-standard design and prototyping tools (such as Figma) to build the UI components and visual systems.
• Experience leveraging generative AI tools, automated workflows, and design-to-code pipelines to accelerate prototyping, automate system maintenance, and bridge design with engineering.
• 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.
• 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 1 year of experience leading design projects.
• Understanding of user-centered design principles and the flexibility to jump into end-to-end feature flows, ensuring visual systems enhance usability, comprehension, and product metrics.
• Ability to execute high-craft visual design (including typography, layout, color, elevation, and motion) that balances structured system rules with expressive, emotional design decisions.
• A strong command of design systems, token architecture, and component libraries.

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.

The Home UX Studio is a horizontal design team that drives visual design, motion, and AI craft across the entire Google Home cross-functional portfolio. Rather than operating on the sidelines, we embed directly into product teams as active builders to help launch the next generation of Google Home experiences.

Whether we are shaping agent-first interactions in the Google Home app or crafting the visual language for new hardware like Smart Displays, Doorbells, and Thermostats, our focus is on design excellence. We partner directly with the Material Design team among others to build and scale cohesive systems across multiple platforms, while bringing warmth, emotion, and expressive design into products that live in people's homes.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it. 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

Responsibilities

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• Design and evolve scalable visual systems that bridge mobile app surfaces, new Home hardware devices, and ambient computing experiences.
• Use AI workflows, Vibe Coding, and internal tools like Jetski to rapidly explore ideas, validate visual systems, and bridge the gap between design and production.
• Jump into high-priority product initiatives across the Home UX portfolio to design standout features and user experiences alongside product, engineering, and motion partners.
• Infuse strong visual design principles, typography, color, and emotional expression into hardware and software products made for everyday life at home.
• Work closely with the Material Design team and cross-functional partners to ensure our design language remains consistent, accessible, and expressive across every screen and device.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .