Job Description

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Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Remote location(s): California, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design or equivalent practical experience
• Experience designing with 3D, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), and/or Augmented Reality/Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies
• Experience designing across platforms
• A portfolio highlighting projects that demonstrate experience crafting digital interfaces
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in design within the AR space
• Experience scoping and solving highly ambiguous design problems that involve screen, physical, and spatial interactions
• Experience collaborating with User Research teams to craft usability studies
• Ability to communicate effectively across different functions and listen to different perspectives, articulate positions, and advocate for designs
• Ability to take design concepts from drawing board to shipped products, and/or features
  
  

About The Job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and across teams to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. You’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, and inspired products that people love to use.

In this role, you will work on Augmented Reality (AR) experiences, driving the future of design for mobile. You'll explore, concept, design, prototype, and build experiences that define how people interact in AR on mobile devices. You will collaborate with teams to execute experiences that are useful for our users.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of AR user experiences from concept to launch.
• Solve highly ambiguous and complex design problems that involve a combination of screen, physical, and spatial user interactions.
• Partner with cross-functional and cross-product teams to define roadmaps and experiences, contribute to product strategies, and execute on the aligned plans.
• Concept immersive design patterns, execute on final designs, and communicate user narratives with strategic reasoning behind design decisions.
• Collaborate with User Research teams to plan user studies. Be an advocate for the user by understanding their challenges and problems.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .