Visual Designer, 2D/3D Maps Systems

3 Months ago • 1 Years + • Product Design • $102,000 PA - $150,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Visual Designer at Google Maps, you'll be responsible for modernizing the iconic product across 2D and 3D experiences. You will own visual design, crafting key features within the Maps cartographic experience, from canvas design and cartography to the maps design system. You'll leverage user insights and data to inform design decisions, ensuring accessibility and an intuitive user journey. Responsibilities include evolving design frameworks, defining and maintaining asset management tools and processes, exploring concept development, advocating for Google products, and partnering with visual programs to apply new design styles. You'll collaborate with other leads to create a cohesive offering across Google products and work across programs to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Product design or UX experience
  • Experience implementing visual design systems
  • Proficiency in design tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch)
  • User-centered design methods
  • Collaboration with design partners
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in relevant field
  • Experience leading design projects
  • 3D modeling and visualization experience
  • Data visualization experience
  • Prototyping experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in product design or UX.
  • Experience implementing visual design systems across platforms in an iterative software development environment, applying design tools (e.g., Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch).
  • Include a portfolio, 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, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 1 year of experience leading design projects.
  • Experience in 3D Modeling and 3D Visualization.
  • Experience in Data Visualization.
  • Experience with prototyping.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.

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 behaviors and perceptions 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 a Visual 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.

In this role, you will be dedicated to elevating Google Maps. You will shape the future of this iconic product across 2D and dimensional experiences. You will modernize Google Maps and own visual design, crafting the key features within the Maps cartographic experience across canvas design and cartography to the maps design system. You will deliver user-centered design leveraging user insights and data to inform design decisions, ensuring accessibility and an intuitive user journey.

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 $102,000-$150,000 + 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

  • Evolve the notion of framework by collaborating with other leads to form a cohesive offering across Google products.
  • Work across programs to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management.
  • Leverage principal contributors to explore concept development to influence product, a point-of-view around visual style, and product commitments.
  • Advocate for Google products and their unique value proposition within an integrated Google ecosystem. 
  • Partner with visual programs within our organization to evolve and apply new design styles and aesthetics for our suite of products.

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