UX Designer, Google Play

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in UX design or similar fields.
  
• Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
  
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
  
• Experience leading products from concept to launch and incorporating user research findings into product design.
  
• Experience working with content strategy, and comfortable with writing basic UI strings aligned with content principles.
  
• Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features within a user-centered design process.
  
• Excellent communication, presentation, people management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build working relationships and create needed alignment with stakeholders and leadership.
  
• UX portfolio demonstrating user-centered design approaches and solutions.
  

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 Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams to explore strategic opportunities, solve complex and ambiguous problems, and advocate on behalf of our users.
  
• Develop conceptual models, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate, test, and evolve design ideas and collaborate closely with engineering partners to ensure quality implementation.
  
• Manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Craft compelling design outlook with clear design rationales to align stakeholders and influence design decisions in regular design reviews.
  
• Work in a platform/tool for app and game developers that enables them to publish and monitor their app’s performance.