Visual Designer, YouTube Discovery
About The Position
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products. As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will 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 define new video-forward browsing experiences. You will collaborate closely with our "Effortless Entertainment" design to make YouTube more immersive and bring the app to life. Your work will take you from the Home page to every one of our evaluation feeds, reshaping the core YouTube discovery journey for the biggest video platform in the world. At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
- Experience with interaction design within product or UX design.
- 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.
- 2 years of experience working in a cross-functional organization.
- Experience in designing across multiple platforms (e.g., Mobile, Web, TV, etc.).
- Experience in the video, media, or entertainment industry.
- Experience with AI tools.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of high-quality designs from initial concept to final execution across mobile, tablet, and web platforms.
- Partner seamlessly with Product, User Experience, and Engineering teams to define user-centric features and ensure technical feasibility.
- Translate conceptual goals into interactive designs while clearly articulating and justifying the design goals to stakeholders and peers.
- Collaborate closely with User Experience researchers to rationalize design decisions through data and user insights for continuous product improvement.
- Work alongside fellow designers and engineers to ensure detailed, high-fidelity implementation within platform constraints and brand standards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
