Industrial Designer, Devices and Services

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design or equivalent practical experience.

• 1 year of experience with designing and shipping consumer products.

• Experience in design (e.g., proportions, color form, typography, presentation) and storytelling.

• A portfolio demonstrating your work.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with one or more of the following: animation, color/material/finish design, model making and/or prototyping; 2D experience via sketching, Illustrator, Photoshop.
• Excellent in visualizing concepts using industry standard 2D and 3D tools such as Photoshop/Illustrator, Rhino, Solidworks, Creo, Alias and Keyshot.
• Understanding of mechanical design, manufacturing and engineering requirements and constraints.
• Excellent communication/visualization and storytelling skills and techniques.

About the job

As an Industrial Designer at Google, your mission will be to design products that delight and inspire people. You will be a design leader who is passionate about improving people's lives through design and technology. You are proactive, creative, engaged, optimistic, progressive, open-minded, and resourceful and you seek inspiration, empowerment, and challenge.

Please include URL(s) to an online portfolio in addition to your resume, as submissions without a portfolio included will not be considered. See tips on preparing for your design portfolio.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Deliver design at a high quality that delights consumers.
• Communicate and present through sketches, prototypes or models, and 2D/3D renderings, with demonstrated attention to detail.
• Express ideas and concepts through visual/verbal communication skills by contributing to ideation as well as proper implementation of ideas.
• Build process troubleshooting and CMF approvals that require travel as needed to vendors (e.g., manufacturing facilities overseas, user research).
• Support multiple projects at very different levels of involvement.

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.