UX Designer, Kids and Families, Android

**Minimum qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently.
**Preferred qualifications**:
- Experience prototyping with web or mobile based technologies.
- Experience with animation or illustration.
- Experience working across ambiguity to produce design concepts and prototype.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills. Ability to communicate complex, sometimes abstract, design concepts clearly and persuasively.
**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.
As a UX Designer on the Kids and Families team, your product design is capable of both interaction and visual design. You will help close gaps that exist for younger users across Google’s products.
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**:
- Drive both UX strategies and tactical executions for areas of ownership. Define processes and best practices to advance collaboration across cross-Google teams and cross-functional partners.
- Design high-quality product experiences from concept to completion.
- Lead and participate in design sessions with cross-functional teams, external partners, and users.
- Promote UX design efforts, mindset, and methods through presentation and communication.
- Communicate and present design concepts, insights, and outcomes to stakeholders.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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