Staff Interaction Designer, Extended Reality

Google•San Francisco, CA

38d•$178,000 - $265,000

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. For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in product design or UX.
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.
5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
4 years of experience leading design projects.
Experience managing rapid creative and technical sprints to deliver working prototypes.

Responsibilities

Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
Design for multimodal input and orchestration, seamlessly blending voice, gaze, gesture, and conversational AI.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills.
Articulate and advocate a complex spatial and AI design goal to stakeholders, from hardware engineers to executive leadership.
Deep expertise in designing user-centric, AI-powered products, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of how to manage model ambiguity, blend digital intelligence into the physical world, and build user trust in heads-up or ambient contexts.