On-site role in Mountain View, California for a senior-level UX Designer at Google. The position involves developing and enhancing the Search Design System, focusing on creating intuitive, cross-platform user experiences.
Skills / Requirements
- AI Concepts
- Cross-platform Design
- Design Architecture
- Design Centered Changes
- Design Language
- Design Systems
- Dynamic Specifications
- Fluid Interactions
- High-fidelity Prototyping
- Interaction Design
- Native Mobile Platforms
- Systemic Structural Thinking
- User Feedback Integration
- User-Centered Design
- UX Design
- Vibe Coding
- Web Platforms
Why Apply
This role is ideal for someone skilled in leveraging AI tools for design, as you'll be using high-fidelity prototyping and dynamic specifications to enhance adaptive, intelligent logic within Google's design systems.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll work closely with product managers and engineers to design and refine user experiences, integrating feedback and business requirements. Your focus will be on developing a cohesive design language across platforms, ensuring fluid and engaging interactions.
Working in Mountain View, California
- Mountain View is a major tech hub, home to many leading technology companies, offering ample networking opportunities.
- The city is part of Silicon Valley, known for its innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, making it ideal for tech professionals.
- Mountain View offers a mild Mediterranean climate, with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters.
- Public transportation options, like Caltrain and VTA, provide convenient access to surrounding areas, including San Francisco.
Pay and Career Growth
The role offers a competitive salary range of $159,000 to $231,000, plus a 15% bonus target and equity. Google provides a collaborative environment where design innovation is prioritized, offering significant career development opportunities.
Benefits and Perks
- benefits
- Bonus
- competitive salary
- Equity
Is This Role Right for You?
Good fit if you...
- Experienced in building cross-platform design systems and languages.
- Comfortable with high-craft execution and systemic structural thinking.
- Skilled in using AI tools for design and prototyping.
May not be for you if...
- Lacks experience in interaction design for web and mobile platforms.
- Unfamiliar with AI concepts and tools in design workflows.
- Prefers working in small, non-complex organizational structures.
Original Job Description
Senior UX Designer, Search Design System
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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.
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Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
Experience with design and UI implementation on web and native mobile platforms (such as iOS and Android).
Experience building design systems and establishing a cross-platform design language.
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.
3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
2 years of experience leading design projects.
Experience with foundational AI concepts and emerging technologies.
Experience leveraging AI tools for co-design, “vibe coding,” or optimizing system data for AI.
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.
As a Senior UX Designer on the Search Design System team, you will serve as a design architect, balancing systemic structural thinking with a high-craft execution of fluid, native interactions. In this role, you will shape the living, cross-platform foundations that power the future of Search, infusing fluidity, delight, and a native-first mindset into a mature design system.
You will seamlessly shift between defining macro-level component architectures and crafting micro-level interactive details. You will use high-fidelity prototyping and dynamic specifications to move the system beyond static layouts into adaptive, intelligent logic for both human teams and AI workflows. Beyond architecting tokens and components, you will act as a critical bridge to engineering and a cultural catalyst—converting native design best practices and up-skilling feature teams across the broader organization.
In Google Search, we’re reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $159000 – $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.
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