Senior Interaction Designer, Android and Pixel UX at Google in Mountain View, CA, USA

Job description

• At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.
• As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.
• Android and Pixel UX Design ensures this massive global ecosystem is high-quality, beautifully crafted, accessible, and intuitive across every form factor.
• The Android Security and Privacy UX team is critical to this mission. We design, establish, and evolve the platform guardrails that protect users, earn customer trust, and guide developers across the global Android and Pixel ecosystem. Our team balances robust threat protection with low-friction user experiences, ensuring security and privacy feel natural, transparent, and empowering.
• In this role, you will shape the foundation of digital trust for billions of users worldwide. You will own the critical platform surfaces that safeguard user data, leading complex initiatives from system-level permission architectures and proactive threat alerts to transparent on-device AI controls. We are looking for a systems-thinker with an eye for craft to balance robust ecosystem protection with frictionless user agency, helping us to set a new bar for intuitive, privacy-first design across the global Android ecosystem.
• Android is Google’s 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.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
• Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
• 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.

Skills

Required

• Interaction design
• Product design
• UX design
• User-centered design methods
• Wireframes
• Flow diagrams
• Storyboards
• Mockups
• High fidelity prototypes
• Portfolio

Preferred

• Leading design projects

Benefits

• Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.