UX Designer, Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human-Computer Interaction, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience designing technical, enterprise applications.
• Experience prototyping designs using tools (e.g., Figma, Canva).
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other 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, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.
• Experience working collaboratively with and influencing other designers, product managers, and engineers.
• Ability to understand and communicate abstract, design concepts clearly and persuasively.
• Excellent visual design skills and knowledge of user-centered design principles.
• Strong teamwork, communication, and collaboration skills.

About the job

Design and user experience (UX) are at the forefront of everything we do. The job of an Interaction Designer is to envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical. In an Interaction Designer role, you’ll tackle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs for billions of people around the world—from the first-time user to the sophisticated expert. Achieving this goal requires collaboration with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers and Product Managers throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes. At each stage, you will anticipate what our users need, advocate for them and ensure that the final product surprises and delights them. 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.Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., Researchers, PMs, Engineers) to envision and deliver high-quality, user-centered design solutions for complex Cloud technologies and compute infrastructure.
• Translate complex concepts into elegant designs by creating storyboards, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes to guide the agile development lifecycle.
• Leverage actively modern AI-assisted design tools to accelerate ideation and rapid prototyping, focusing craft on solving the highest-impact user tests.
• Advocate for the user by iterating on designs based on feedback and data-informed insights to ensure products meet business objectives and enterprise use cases.
• Pitch concepts and manage stakeholder expectations, facilitating engagements to communicate design direction and influence the evolution of the cloud product design system. 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.