UX Designer, Geo Makers

Google•Mountain View, CA

3d•$132,000 - $189,000

About The Position

As a UX Designer for Developer Experience on the Geo Makers team, you will design and deliver developer-facing tools, reusable UI components, and interactive workflows across Google Maps Platform and its geospatial toolset. This hybrid design-engineering role uses code as a primary design medium, combining visual and interaction design craft with front-end fluency to build tangible browser experiences and explore ways to showcase geospatial and AI capabilities. You will partner with product management, engineering, UX research, and developer relations to translate complex spatial APIs, SDKs, and agentic capabilities into intuitive developer experiences. Google Interaction Designers apply user-centered design methods to create industry-leading experiences from concept through execution. They collaborate with design partners to evolve Google’s design language and create intuitive, beautiful, and innovative products, using user insights to shape product experiences. The Geo team builds mapping products and services, including Maps, Earth, Street View, and Google Maps Platform. Its work includes enabling developers to use Google Maps platforms in their apps and websites, solving complex computer science problems, designing product experiences, and improving understanding of the real world.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
Include a portfolio, website, or other relevant link to work in the resume, with a viewable link or access instructions.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a design engineer, creative technologist, front-end developer, or software engineer.
Experience designing for developer ecosystems, API or SDK portals, component libraries, or cloud platforms.
Experience with mapping APIs and SDKs, 3D and spatial rendering libraries, or geospatial tools.
Experience designing for AI-assisted developer workflows, agentic tools, or Large Language Model (LLM) integrations.
Experience addressing developer pain points across SDK integration, rate limits, schema definitions, and API error handling.

Responsibilities

Design and ship core features and workflows across the developer journey, including API discovery, interactive capability evaluation, SDK onboarding, credential setup, and usage guidance.
Design interactive API references, live code playgrounds, sandboxes, and AI-assisted developer workflows that let developers test endpoints and visualize spatial data in real time.
Combine front-end code (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) with AI prototyping tools to build interactive experiences and explore novel ways to represent geospatial capabilities.
Contribute to and maintain reusable design system patterns and code-aligned components for developer surfaces, including SDK UI kits, schema visualizers, interactive code blocks, and map canvas controls.
Partner with engineering, product management, developer relations, and UX research to evaluate technical trade-offs, bridge design and implementation, and advocate for API usability and developer ergonomics.