Senior Visual Designer

About the role

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products. As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will 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

• Drive the execution of novel AI paradigms.
• Design beyond static screens, creating adaptive interfaces that accommodate non-deterministic, generative outputs.
• Define the visual cues and novel design patterns that communicate AI states.
• Craft the micro-interactions that build user trust — visually articulating how the browser behaves when it's "thinking," "reading a page," or "taking an action."
• Use core visual principles like typography, space, layout, and color to elevate the UX into a premium, magical experience that sets a new global standard.
• Guide cross-functional peers through design sprints, rapid prototyping, and critiques specifically tailored to the unique constraints and vast opportunities of GenAI.
• Present your designs to stakeholders with a strong articulation of design rationale.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure your designs are implemented to specifications, sweating the details until the final product feels effortless.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, and browser-based tools, backed by a habit of active experimentation with emerging AI technologies to expand what's creatively possible.
• Proficiency in Figma, with the ability to leverage AI to accelerate design workflows.
• Track record of owning creative work from concept to execution by combining bold decision-making with high-level craft, while driving cross-disciplinary alignment through exceptional storytelling.
• Ability to be comfortable giving and receiving feedback in a fast-paced creative environment, with a focus on radical candor and rapid iteration.
• Ability to distill complex UX research into sharp, actionable, and futuristic visual strategies.

Skills

• Strong understanding of visual design principles and best practices.
• Experience with user-centered design methodologies.
• Proficiency in Figma and other design tools.
• Experience with AI and generative design techniques.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment.
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks.
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

US: $159,000 - $231,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits