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We are looking for a talented UX Designer to join our team and help us build the best user experience for Google mobile applications, focusing primarily on Android OS.

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.

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

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.
• Test concepts for iteration, research, and validation. Conceive and deliver innovative and engaging prototypes.
• Identify emerging needs, develop interaction design best practices, and contribute to pattern documentation.
• Lead or contribute to key projects, ensuring a holistic systems-thinking approach and advocating for user needs across platforms and applications.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of Design and Prototyping experience.
• Experience in UI development on Android platform and iOS.
• Familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (Android and iOS).
• Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features within a user-centered design process.
• Ability to work with front-end engineering teams for native app user interfaces.

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.