Senior Staff Visual Designer

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA . Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
• Experience collaborating with and influencing product, engineering, and leadership teams to adopt new design directions.
• Experience utilizing modern generative AI tools and workflows to enhance and accelerate the design and prototyping process.
• Experience navigating complex enterprise or productivity ecosystems.
• Proficiency in motion design (e.g., After Effects, Principle, or similar) and building interactive prototypes.
• Proven ability to ideate rapidly and explore multiple conceptual directions.
• Exceptional visual storytelling and presentation skills.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.
As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will 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 this role, you will be the creative engine behind our next-generation experiences, operating at the intersection of practical product implementation and innovation. We need a designer who grows in ambiguity, excels at exploratory ideation, and can make the abstract feel real to bring product teams along on the journey.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
• Drive visual design and conceptual exploration for new, undefined product areas and innovative features across Google Workspace.
• Execute high-fidelity motion design and build interactive prototypes. Leverage modern Gen AI tools to accelerate the exploration, iteration, and visualization of new user experiences.
• Turn complex, future-facing concepts into compelling visual narratives and tangible artifacts that clearly communicate value.
• Partner closely with cross-functional product and engineering teams to transition 0-to-1 concepts into actionable roadmaps.
• Advocate new design paradigms and innovations, effectively presenting and "selling" your goal to different teams to drive adoption and implementation.
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 .