UX Interaction Designer, Vertical Factory, Google

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently in order to communicate with team members cross-functionally for performing day to day tasks.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas and information in an effective and clear, concise manner, with internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent collaboration skills with other UX, Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Legal.
- A portfolio or work samples showcasing UX experience, coupled with fluency in best practices for user-centered interface and interaction design.

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 will envision how people will experience our products, and bring that 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 will 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 Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you will have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

**Responsibilities**:

- Drive design and product goals by translating user needs, business objectives, and technology constraints into design decisions.
- Develop detailed wireframes, low and high-fidelity mockups, detailed microinteractions and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Understand the problem space and ensure that the cross-functional team solves the problems for users in a fluid environment.
- Partner with UX research, product management, Business Development(BD) and engineering to craft and execute on visions that build buy-in from stakeholders and leadership.
- Manage, balance near-term needs and long-term goals, and navigate parallel workstreams.

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