Senior Staff Visual Designer, Search UX Foundations

1 Month ago • 10-15 Years • Product Design • $224,000 PA - $315,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Google Search is reimagining how we find information. As a Senior Staff Visual Designer, you'll co-lead the evolution of the Search design language for the AI era, developing creative perspectives on the future of Search. You will partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering) to ensure scalability of design languages and frameworks. Responsibilities include aligning teams on design strategies, creating foundational frameworks, and driving adoption. You will lead initiatives to gather feedback, foster innovation, and refine core frameworks, ensuring successful implementation and continuous improvement. You will also influence executive leaders and stakeholders to ensure business success and product excellence. The role requires expertise in visual, interaction, and motion design, along with experience managing design teams in consumer settings. You will design across multiple platforms and collaborate with technical and design teams. A strong portfolio showcasing your skills is required.
Must have:
  • 10+ years in product design or UX
  • Experience in visual, interaction, and motion design
  • Team management experience
  • Cross-platform design experience
  • Collaboration with technical/design teams
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in relevant field
  • Experience developing design language/systems
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Prototyping or front-end development skills

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • Experience in visual, interaction, and motion design, and managing teams in consumer settings.
  • Experience designing across multiple platforms, and working with technical/design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups and prototypes.
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant 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.
  • 15 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • Experience developing design language/systems and understanding contemporary trends with a focus on detailed visual/motion design, including physics/patterns elements, and use motion to express sentimental or emotional experiences effectively.
  • Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to advocate and drive key product innovations with strong product sensibility and capability.
  • Excellent prototyping or front-end development skills, with the ability to fuse creativity and code to deliver cutting edge interactions.

About the job

At Google, Visual Designers weave iconography, typography, color, space and texture together to help our users successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible. As a Visual Designer, you’ll delight users with designs that inspire, engage and excite them. You’ll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to execution—across many platforms. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your fellow designers to constantly refine the Google design language and create innovative, great-looking 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'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $224,000-$315,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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

  • Co-lead the design and evolution of the Search design language for the AI era; develop compelling creative perspectives on how the future of Search could feel to users.
  • Partner with teams across Google to ensure scalability of the design language and frameworks across the experience.
  • Align cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, etc.) on cohesive, scalable design strategies, and collaborate deeply to power use cases, create foundational frameworks, and drive adoption across the organization.
  • Lead initiatives to gather feedback, foster innovation, and refine core frameworks, ensuring successful implementation in partner teams and continuous improvement across Google.
  • Influence executive leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to enable long-term business success and product excellence.

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