Job Description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience with motion design (e.g., page transitions, choreography of elements, and micro interactions).
• 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.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 2 years of experience leading design projects.
• Experience with visual design, systems design, and interaction frameworks.
• Experience with motion design, agentic prototyping, and AI tooling.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Interaction Designer, you’ll join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

You’ll always start from a user-centered app-first mindset to drive intuitive, highly engaging user journeys for our products. You’ll bring a builder's mindset with strong craft and the ability to make design decisions that result in a coherent user experience while also assessing for execution, longevity and scale of designs. You’ll have an aesthetic sensibility, understanding relevant trends to make design decisions that increase the overall appeal of our product set. You’ll be a systems thinker with the ability to analyze existing landscapes and consider how factors or components interrelate with each other and within the context of larger systems. You’ll bring AI fluency to effectively interact and prototype with AI tools, understand core AI concepts and limitations and critically assess desired outputs for accuracy.

In this role, you will be responsible for shipping the latest visual search experiences—such as Google Lens, Circle to Search, and AI Mode—directly onto surfaces outside of Search. You will partner closely with surface owners to bring new AI-driven Search experiences to users right where their questions happen. Partnering deeply with Product Management, you will navigate cross-organizational priorities, design systems, and processes to ensure design quality, excellence, and scalability of the user experience on target surfaces.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 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Develop new UX patterns, components, and interaction frameworks, ensuring cohesion across various product areas and hosting surfaces.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process using wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements to advocate for and prioritize design-centered changes and product experience updates.
• Formulate insights to drive design and product strategy, identifying opportunities for innovation and industry leadership in visual search.