Seed Studio Visual Design Manager, Devices and Services
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- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
- 3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
- Experience implementing visual design systems across platforms in an iterative software development environment.
- 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 work experience working with executive leaders.
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary UX or product teams (motion, interaction, UX research, engineering, content strategy) on technical implementation.
- Experience in conceiving and documenting solutions through personas, user journeys, storyboards, value propositions and sketches.
- Experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. You are a systems-level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team.
You will be responsible for guiding the careers of your direct reports, helping them realize their full potential while fostering a culture of forward-thinking design. With a practiced eye for quality, you will transform complex workflows into elegantly simple experiences. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and execution.
Seed Studio is an innovation and design studio within Google Hardware Design working in the intersection of design strategy, advanced concepts and creative to grasp and inform a future of human-centered technology.
In this role, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.
US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Lead design projects that either seek to conceptualize individual products or define the goal for a category as a whole.
- Lead the team in development and execution of Pixel Watch Watch Faces.
- Provide direction and leadership for visual designers to explore future opportunities for Google Hardware and deliver visual, motion and system design directions for existing surfaces.
- Create compelling visual presentations, storyboards and prototypes showing solutions and context for both peers, users and leadership.
- Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
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