Interaction Designer, YouTube Shorts

Google • San Bruno, CA

4d • $129,000 - $185,000

About The Position

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses. As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use. Join as we invent the future of video creation at YouTube. This role will focus on enabling 3P effect creators to build new and exciting effects within YouTube’s web-based Effect Maker tool. Effects are an important and growing part of our video creation ecosystem, allowing creators to effortlessly and confidently bring ideas to life. At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with interaction design 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).

Nice To Haves

• Experience creating effects for video platforms.
• Experience using or designing for visual scripting platforms.
• Experience designing tools for others to create with, particularly on the web.
• Experience creating and implementing visual design systems, applying design tools (e.g. Figma).
• Experience with mobile video creation or editing products, or a passion for helping people tell their stories.
• Familiarity with YouTube and related video creation platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and refine feature experiences for YouTube’s web-based Effect Maker, while scaling design solutions across the broader Effect platform and discovery ecosystems.
• Partner with UX Research to identify and anticipate user trends, translating insights into iterative, user-centric design solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define product design principles and contribute to the evolution of unified design systems and guidelines.
• Own and execute the end-to-end design process, independently managing projects from initial concept through to high-fidelity implementation.
• Produce high-impact deliverables, including wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished visual specifications, while fostering a supportive UX culture through critical feedback and design excellence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level