Staff Interaction Designer, Google Beam
About The Position
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products. As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products. Google Beam is a true-to-life new communication technology from Google that allows people to feel like they’re having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic state-of-the-art 3D imaging and spatial audio and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, Google Beam enables you to be immersed in the moment, together. As a part of the Google Beam team, you'll work with incredible teammates across all major functions in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with Google products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience with Gen AI product interactions.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
- 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- 4 years of experience leading design projects.
- Expertise in rive (e.g., optimizing files, data binding, reusable libraries) and the ability to build 3D prototypes and view concepts (like virtual backgrounds) on-station.
- Understanding of AI to accelerate UX design workflows and prototype Gen AI product interactions (e.g., connecting voice and gaze inputs to models).
Responsibilities
- Define and advocate long-term user experience and product strategy for the Beam platform, driving alignment among cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Product, and Research.
- Sketch future experiences for Beam (such as Gen AI features and Juniper hardware), grounded in UX principles.
- Build your outlook and bring it to life in 3D, iterating extensively on the finer details of interactions to arrive at a high-quality experience.
- Advocate user-driven design methods by owning our rive workflows including optimizing files, creating reusable component libraries, and bringing UI components to life while minimizing the support needed from software engineers.
- Collaborate with User Research to plan studies by setting up control panels and preparing rive files, enabling UX Researchers to seamlessly control settings and conditions on-screen.
- Solve highly ambiguous and complex design problems involving screen-space, geospatial design, and novel capabilities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
