UX Designer, Tools Automation and Infrastructure

About the Job

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.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

Responsibilities

• Drive impactful user experiences that align with the Ads business strategy.
• Partner closely with engineering leads, program managers, and product technology managers to identify and prioritize opportunities for visual and interaction design improvements across multiple product features.
• Advocate user needs by collaborating with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to own design solutions and coordinate user research.
• Recommend product and workflow enhancements based on user feedback and business objectives, advocate for UX best practices, and contribute to building a scalable design process and engagement models for internal and external partners.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of conversation design experience in product design or UX design.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience with one or more of the following methods: usability studies, concept tests, benchmarks, diary studies, interviewing consumers (user interviews), field research, surveys.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Content Strategists and Product Managers throughout the design process, creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes.
• Experience creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes in Figma.
• Experience creating user journey flows (e.g., LucidChart, Visio, etc).
• Lead large programs across an organization with multiple stakeholders who have engaging interest.