Senior Visual Designer, Android XR

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.

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 like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead design projects across the portfolio of XR devices and experiences, developing user centric solutions within a novel and fast-developing product space.
• Communicate designs to build excitement and consensus across teams, and gain support for design strategy across stakeholders.
• Deliver design executions that set goals for design and align with brand and established UX patterns.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to envision, prioritize, develop, prototype, and execute designs.
• Build and document design solutions that scale within the XR platform.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
  
• Experience in design patterns, layout construction, and expressing design systems within Figma.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume demonstrating experience in product design and design systems (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.
  
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers throughout the design process.
• Experience with Android, Google material design, motion design, and 3D tools.
• Ability to take design concepts from drawing board to shipped features.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.