Senior Visual Designer, Android XR

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
• Experience with typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Experience with Figma, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Creative Suite, or other design tools.
• 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 collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers, and Product Managers throughout the design process.
• Knowledge of motion design and 3D tools.
• Knowledge of Android and Google Material Design.
• Ability to take design concepts from drawing board to shipped features.
• Portfolio demonstrating experience in hardware/software interaction design, design systems, and mobile UX.

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.

In this role, you will drive and own visual language for Android XR. You will check how the designs relate to UX and spatial design. Your responsibilities will include working directly with the internal design team to ideate and document design solutions. You will participate in regular collaboration with engineering and UX teams to solve for technical constraints and a design space.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the visual language and design system for Extended Reality (XR) headset platform UI and experiences in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Work directly with Visual design leads to define, align, and prioritize work.
• Drive design specification development and create production ready assets.
• Communicate the user experience to partners at various stages of the design process by making engaging designs and concepts.
• Work with the wider XR UX team to craft consistent experiences that can scale across the design system.