Google Looking For Senior Interaction Designer, Home Controls, Google Home App at Mountain View, CA Full Time

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Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Design or equivalent practical experience.

10 years of relevant industry experience in interactive design and working across platforms.

A portfolio showing visual design experience, highlighting your contributions.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience designing and implementing complex UIs in close partnership with research, product managers, and engineering teams.

Experience building prototypes for user testing and directional alignment.

Ability to demonstrate, articulate, and teach an understanding of layout, typography, and visual hierarchy.

Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.

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’ll act as the advocate for the end user in team discussions, and partner closely with user research to understand how we can make home controls accessible to a wide variety of users.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Nest team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

Develop design directions, create concept work, and drive concepts through to final spec delivery.

Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate requirements, and build concise user-centric solutions, journeys, and concept roadmaps.

Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process by developing wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and presentations.

Give direction to others on the team. Encourage creative use of our existing design frameworks to produce elegant layouts and, when necessary, create new patterns.

Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.

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.