Senior Visual Designer, YouTube Design Systems

About the Job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.

As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will 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 YouTube Design System team is where product design strategy is heading next, defining new patterns and interactions for entertainment platforms. The team creates a scalable design system for the YouTube product ecosystem by providing the principles, components, color strategy, and typography for teams to deliver quality. In this role, work consists of system ownership, future creative UX and visual design explorations, and expressing how the brand manifests within products.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Explore new visual language patterns and develop a holistic design story to serve as a constant source of inspiration for the YouTube UX organization.
• Partner and consult with feature teams to craft innovative ideas that deliver on the core philosophies and capabilities of the YouTube visual design language.
• Build partnerships with UX peers to push the boundaries of how design can be implemented across multiple products.
• Contribute to the delivery and maintenance of the design language, ensuring all technical specifications and guidance are documented.
• Leverage soft skills to form team relationships and deliver high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
  
• Experience creating mockups, user interfaces, and prototypes using Figma and other industry-standard design tools.
• Experience designing, building, or launching consumer-facing products.
• Experience building a scalable visual design system that ensures consistency and quality.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction, computer science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.
• 2 years of experience leading design projects.