UX Interaction Designer

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Due to the current health crisis related to COVID-19 and the escalating visa/travel restrictions in place, we're currently unable to extend offers to anyone who cannot work from India due to lockdown visa/travel restrictions, or other restrictive measures until further notice. Consequently, we will be prioritizing candidates who can start in this location by set date as expected. We're keeping the situation under review and would adjust our position should the restrictive measures be removed later on.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Interaction or similar area, or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years of relevant work experience within UX, HCI, applied research setting, and/or product research and development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with early stage efforts, dealing with ambiguity and driving projects forward
• Strong collaboration skills with other UXers, PM, Engineering, Marketing, Legal.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to listen, be proactive at addressing feedback, represent and advocate for UX and users.
• Excellent interaction and visual design skills and an solid portfolio of interactive projects

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 take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs for billions of people around the worldfrom 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 processfrom 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.

As an UX Interaction Designer, you will make a positive impact on the lives of users. You'll work on a collaborative team focusing on making things user friendly and transparent for all. In this role, you'll be part of a cross functional team, building innovative products using your mix of interaction design and visual design skills.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users' needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products' unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google's philosophy: Focus on the user and all else will follow.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with cross functional members to define user needs, opportunity space, and product requirements.
• Define design direction in close collaboration with other Designers, Researchers, Writer to define approach, tone, personality, ease of use, end-to-end flows.
• Deliver detailed design flows and specifications, ensure product excellence throughout product development and implementation process.
• Build strong relationships with cross functional stakeholders to drive user focus, creativity, efficiency, and product excellence.

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.