Senior Visual Systems Designer, Geo Makers

Google•Mountain View, CA

3d•$159,000 - $230,000

About The Position

As a Senior Visual Systems Designer on the Geo Makers team, you will lead visual design direction, brand expression, and system coherence across a varied, technically sophisticated geospatial portfolio. You will bring deep visual craft to ensure developer web experiences, customizable SDK components, conversational AI kits, and geospatial analytics tools are intuitive, legible, and built for technical problem solvers. Working across high-density spatial data streams, developer interfaces, and partner ecosystems, you will transform complex mapping challenges into cohesive visual frameworks, customizable UI components, and scalable design systems. Google Visual Designers combine space, typography, color, and iconography to help people navigate products successfully and accessibly. In this multidisciplinary UX role, you will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management, use user insights and user-centered design methods, and work with design partners to evolve Google's design language and create products from concept through execution. The Geo team builds maps through products such as Maps, Earth, Street View, and Google Maps Platform. It also enables developers to use Google Maps Platform in their apps and websites. More than a billion people rely on Maps services each month.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Visual Design, Human-Computer Interaction, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
Experience creating, implementing, defining, or working with design systems.
Include a portfolio, website, or other relevant link to work in the resume, with a viewable link or access instructions.

Nice To Haves

Experience shipping visual interfaces, brand expressions, and design systems for digital products, developer platforms, or enterprise tools.
Experience in visual design across typography, color systems, spatial hierarchy, layout, and iconography.
Experience building, scaling, and governing design systems and component libraries across multiple products or surfaces.
Experience with AI-driven design workflows, AI-assisted rapid prototyping, or connecting design system tokens directly to front-end development environments.
Experience leading visual design for geospatial tools, mapping software, or developer platforms such as APIs, SDKs, or cloud consoles.
Experience in data visualization, cartographic or geospatial styling, 3D immersive environments, or multidimensional information design.

Responsibilities

Lead and deliver high-fidelity visual design and brand expression across the Geo Makers portfolio, including developer web experiences, customizable SDK UI kits, conversational AI surfaces, and rich 2D/3D spatial workflows.
Translate dense datasets, multilayered geospatial information, routing algorithms, and environmental metrics into legible visual frameworks, basemap styling, and data visualization components.
Define, evolve, and scale visual design and brand systems, including typography, color, spatial hierarchy, iconography, and reusable component libraries.
Articulate and defend visual design direction with clear, evidence-based rationale grounded in user needs, developer workflows, brand standards, and technical constraints.
Partner with engineers, product managers, interaction designers, and UX researchers to navigate technical trade-offs, connect design tokens to production code, and maintain visual fidelity through launch.