Interaction Designer, Google Kids and Family

Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 4 years of experience in product design or UX. - Experience designing across platforms, building user interface mockups/prototypes, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows/wireframes. - Portfolio highlighting projects/direct contributions. Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field. - 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization. - 1 year of experience leading design projects. - Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features within a user-centered design process. - Excellent problem-solving, communication, and influencing skills to affect product design strategy. **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 Kids works to provide a safe, delightful, and content-nutritious environment that serves kids and their parents. As an Interaction Designer, you will help build Android experiences for kids and their parents that are seamless, easy to understand and onboard, and delightful. You will focus on creating experiences to address safety, engagement, and retention for audiences. User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” **Responsibilities**: - Conceive/cultivate ideas and experiences while working with Google Kids UX, Android UX, and Product teams. Solve visual/UI design challenges by aligning to Android and Material Design systems and guidelines. - Develop high-level concepts and wireframes and effectively communicate them to the broader team/design leads. - Prototype through Figma or other tools. Design for form factors, including phones, tablets, etc. - Collaborate closely with Google Kids and Android teams, Program Managers, and Engineering peers to estimate and deliver designs and vet their implementation to delivery. Partner with UX Research teams to plan research that will inform and validate your designs from sketches to prototypes. - Work with cross-business area design teams and products across Google to expand Kids’ presence in the Android and Google ecosystem. Work with Google’s Kids and Families Platform team and Family Link team. 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.