Staff UX Designer, Devices and Services

Google•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products. As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products. Seed Studio is an innovation group within Google hardware design working in the intersection of design strategy, advanced concepts and creative services to grasp and inform the future of hardware. Help us design, define, and build the future of human-computer interaction. Google works on technologies to enable the next generation of immersive devices and platforms. In this role, you will focus on ideating and prototyping new form factors and interfaces for agentic computing. You will be inventive in exploring novel paradigms that go beyond traditional models. You will partner closely with visual and motion designers, industrial designers, UX researchers, engineers, and product leads. You will craft compelling user journeys that make advanced technology personal, powerful, and delightful for everyone. As a core contributor, you will own project outcomes by leading the search for solutions to open-ended design problems, using storytelling and prototyping to communicate and validate new ideas. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

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.
12 years of experience in product design or UX.
5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
4 years of experience leading design projects.
3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

Responsibilities

Drive discovery of future opportunities for Google hardware through the prototyping and validation of new form factors, interfaces, and interaction models.
Solve ambiguous and complex design problems involving new paradigms for agentic computing.
Work alongside strategists, visual/motion designers and creative technologists to shape product narratives and define product features.
Partner with cross-functional and cross-product teams to align on and define product goal and strategy.
Own, deliver and communicate design work with strategic reasoning behind design decisions.