Design Strategist, Devices and Services

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
  
• Experience synthesizing emerging trends into key insights.
• Experience with design tools like Figma and visualizing thinking through sketches, storyboards, interaction models, and other means.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience communicating and collaborating with different disciplines and executive stakeholders.
• Experience in future-focused, R&D roles or in trend forecasting.
• Research experience, including but not limited to ethnographic research, market research, and trend analysis.
• Experience crafting compelling narratives that show creative and strategic thinking.
• Hardware experience, working with Industrial Design, developing new categories, and understanding the unique challenges of physical products.
• Ability to take and give creative direction in a range of disciplines.

About the job:

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.

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 behaviors and perceptions 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 a Visual 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.

As a Design Strategist, you will identify and outline emerging trends, and translate them into transformative design visions. Working closely with Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, Industrial Designers, and UX Researchers, you will uncover new design opportunities and develop creative ways to bring concepts to life.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and research emerging trends in design, technology, and culture to anticipate future opportunities and challenges for hardware. 
• Collaborate closely with Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Designers on forward-thinking design concepts, from ideation to strategic roadmapping. 
• Facilitate workshops and brainstorming sessions to generate ideas and build consensus.
• Bring abstract ideas to life through a range of creative deliverables.
• Develop impactful narratives and make clear, persuasive presentations that influence collaborators and stakeholders.