Staff Interaction Designer, Google Cloud

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
  
• Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems.
  
• Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products.
  
• Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.
  
• Provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation or user research/testing.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  
• Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
  
• Experience working with Designers, Researchers, 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, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
  
• 4 years of experience leading design projects.
  
• 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.
  
• Experience designing enterprise/business software, services, developer tools, IT, or other complex software systems.
  
• Ability to communicate concepts across different audiences and varying levels of the organization to influence product design strategy.