Senior UX Visual Designer, Material Studio

Google • New York, NY

5d

About The Position

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.

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 behaviors and perceptions 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 a Visual 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.

The Material Design team is at the heart of Google's design strategy, working to define and evolve how people interact with technology. Our role is to create a unified, adaptable, and beautiful design system that's used across Google's vast ecosystem of products and by third-party developers building for our platforms. We provide the foundational principles, components, and tools—from color palettes and typography to interactive elements and motion—that allow product teams to deliver high-quality, consistent, and innovative experiences at Google scale.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI 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

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience creating interactive and visual design elements.
• Experience in layout and composition.
• Experience with brand expression and style.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design teams across Google to help them implement Material Design in their products.
• Partner across Google to solve specific product problems holistically, bringing visual and design system expertise to make thoughtful and future-proof decisions.
• Establish and document visual systems for color, typography, shape, layout etc., and continue to evolve the visual language and over-arching story for material design.
• Define systems for brand expression in product and draw example screens showing elements of the design system in action.
• Design specific components and subsystems and collaborate effectively with interaction and motion designers, engineering, research, product, and writing within Google Design Platform to ship a functioning system.

What This Job Offers

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