Interaction Designer, Google Maps

5 Months ago • 4 Years + • Product Design • UI/UX Design • $122,000 PA - $178,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Interaction Designer at Google Maps, you'll be responsible for designing key features of the consumer maps cartographic experience. You'll work closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and provide creative solutions. You'll communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes. You'll integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates and advocate for design-centered changes, refinements, and improvements. You'll also be responsible for collaborating with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, and inspired products that people love to use.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 4 years of interaction design experience
  • Experience designing across multiple platforms (Web, iOS, Android, Wearables)
  • Bringing features from concept to launch
  • Collaboration with stakeholders
  • Communication with wireframes, flow diagrams, mockups
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science
  • 2 years of experience in a complex, cross-functional organization
  • Experience in building user experience, including designing frameworks, prototyping and user research
  • Experience in designing, implementing, or evolving design frameworks
  • Experience in interaction design and product thinking, with visual design skills
  • Understanding of designing within 3D environments or with 3D design technologies (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
  • Experience in designing across multiple platforms (for e.g. Web, iOS, Android, Wearables, etc.) and bringing features from concept to launch.
  • Include a , website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link and/or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  • Experience in building user experience, including designing frameworks, prototyping and user research.
  • Experience in designing, implementing, or evolving design frameworks.
  • Experience in interaction design and product thinking, with visual design skills.
  • Understanding of designing within 3D environments or with 3D design technologies (Unreal, Unity, etc.).

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 Maps is a well established and highly respected product within Google. The team is constantly evolving the map to ensure we are meeting the needs of people around the world. In this role, you will be responsible for building key features of the consumer maps cartographic experience.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
  • Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, or high fidelity prototypes.
  • Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
  • Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.

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