UX Designer, Photos

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with interaction designing in product design or UX design for consumer-facing products.
• Experience in designing across multiple platforms (e.g., Android, iOS and web) including mobile apps, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mock-ups and prototypes.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other related link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Figma and other related design tools.
• Experience with emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the knowledge of technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (e.g., Android and iOS).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate for product design strategy.

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. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you'll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google's businesses.

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.
Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide solutions.
• Articulate user journeys with scenarios, storyboards and presentations, mock-ups, detailed interaction specifications, and prototypes to communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Partner with User Experience Researcher (UXR) on research hypothesis and participate in user research.
• Contribute to User Experience (UX) goal and strategy, generating buy-in and operationalizing the strategy across teams within the timeline as we deliver for launch and subsequent product iterations.
• Drive UX design for the evolution of Google Photos backup, onboarding and storage.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.