Staff UX Designer
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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
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in product design, visual design, or UX design.
- Experience working with design systems or style guides.
- Experience producing design work with current AI design and coding tools alongside traditional tools like Figma.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience producing launch assets for a software or AI product.
- Experience building decks and visuals for executive and external audiences.
- Experience contributing components, templates, or specs to a design system.
- Experience managing agencies or contract designers.
- Motion design and product screenshot or mockup production skills.
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.
In this role, you will own the quality of everything our team puts out, from launch visuals and executive decks to design system components. You will work with the design system team on components and templates, and partner with product marketing to produce go-to-market assets for our industry solutions and launches. Our team works as an AI native, so you will move between the latest AI design and coding tools and traditional tools like Figma to get work out fast without lowering the bar. Over time, you will document how production gets done, decide what stays in house and what goes to agency partners, and set the quality bar the rest of the team works to.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Produce product visuals, screenshots, motion, and presentation decks for launches, internal reviews, and external events, turning rough material from designers and Product Managers into polished, exec-ready assets on short timelines.
- Partner with product marketing and design leads to produce go-to-market assets for industry solutions and launches.
- Work with the design system team on components, templates, and specs, and build kits that make it fast for any designer to present their work well.
- Set and document the quality bar for everything the team ships, coach designers on getting there, and write clear, precise specs that engineers can build from.
- Use the latest AI design and coding tools alongside traditional tools like Figma to speed up production, and document how production gets done so the work doesn't depend on any one person.
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