UX Designer, Core Data
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
- Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
- Experience collaborating with engineers, content strategists and product managers throughout the design process.
- 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, or a related field.
- 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- Experience with designing enterprise, data infrastructure, or high complexity software to design enterprise applications.
- Excellent core interaction design skills, with knowledge of the user-centered design methodologies and how to design for a quality user experience.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to understand, articulate positions, advocate designs, communicate complex, abstract and design concepts clearly, and verbally articulate concepts.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
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.
To enable Google developers and product areas to manage data at scale, Google creates and maintains an entire ecosystem of infrastructure and tooling, much of which falls under the umbrella of Core Data. Core Data products ensure that Search returns results, Ads are served, and payments run smoothly. Working on products in Core Data means shaping the way data is used across the company, from how it is generated and stored to the way that people interact with it to derive new insights.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
- Create new designs, including (but not limited to) user flows, wireframes, mocks, and prototypes.
- Communicate design intent to both internal and external teams. Be able to clearly rationalize and justify design work and advocate for users’ needs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to understand, define, and explore the problem space.
- Partner with and leverage UX research to inform design decisions and validate concepts.
- Deliver precise design specs, working closely with engineers to ensure high quality execution.
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