Product Designer at Waymo in Palo Alto, CA
- Company: Waymo
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Posted: Sep 25, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $118,800—$178,200 USD
- Experience: 4+ years
- Visa sponsorship available
Overview
Our design team is strong and mighty, with about 65 amazing individuals from all walks of the industry and life located worldwide. As our company and our products grow rapidly, it is crucial to scale the experience of our product and our design team in the right way and with the right people. Every …
Job description
- Our design team is strong and mighty, with about 65 amazing individuals from all walks of the industry and life located worldwide. As our company and our products grow rapidly, it is crucial to scale the experience of our product and our design team in the right way and with the right people. Every hire counts!
- As a Rubrik’s Palo Alto-based Product Designer, you will be pioneering the next generation User Experiences for the enterprise! From AI to air-gapped immutable backups to defending against ransomware, our tech stack is the definition of cyber resilience. We are a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader and a winner of the Red Dot & iF Design Awards because we believe security and protection should be powerful and usable. Come build the safety net for the AI generation.
- Sneak peek into our product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9949Q-_onc&t=9s
- Red Dot Design Award
- iF Design Award
- Rubrik Design Medium Page
Responsibilities
- Champion the design process, pushing yourself and the design team to take chances and explore big ideas before narrowing in on feasible, creative solutions with attention to detail
- Produce deliverables at every stage of the design process, such as storyboards, wireframes, user flows, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect visual assets
- Partner with the team of designers, product managers, and engineers throughout the design process - from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality
- Cultivate relationships with our customers to ensure design truly reflects the needs of the users we are serving (UX)
- Be part of evolving our design language and the design system that upholds it
- Work side-by-side with our design system UI engineers to ensure precise implementations
- Help set the bar for consumer-grade design in the enterprise space.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Design (Visual Communication, Interactive, etc.). Master’s degree preferred.
- An outstanding portfolio, showcasing your work with a foundation in interaction and visual design, and idea generation.
- Team Player: Be willing to roll up your sleeves and work cross-functionally
- Solid presentation skills & the ability to hold your audience's attention
- Passion for getting things done the ‘right way’ and in a consistent manner across the product.
- You are proactive and not afraid to drive towards finding a better solution
- Someone who listens to others and values understanding above being right
- Someone who enjoys solving complex design problems!
Skills
Required
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Idea generation
- Portfolio showcasing work
- Team player
- Presentation skills
- Attention to detail
- Proactive
- Listening skills
- Problem-solving
Benefits
- The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
- US Pay Range
- $118,800—$178,200 USD
About Waymo
Join the public powerhouse that is securing the future of AI. Rubrik has officially entered a new era. Fresh off a headline-making successful IPO and boasting over $1.66 Billion in ARR, we have the market stability of a giant and the hunger of a startup. We’ve already conquered Data Security—now, we are pivoting to our most ambitious mission yet: Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation. Join Us in Securing and Accelerating the World's AI Transformation Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. Linkedin | X (formerly Twitter) | Instagram | Rubrik.com