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.
Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.
We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000 - $231,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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 benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Lead visual design direction from early ideation and concept development through to compelling, high-fidelity proofs-of-concept.
- Develop and iterate on visual languages, interaction patterns, and design assets tailored to novel AI-driven experiences, often without precedent.
- Craft and prototype dynamic and expressive motion design to clarify complex AI behaviors, guide user interaction, and enhance the feeling of system intelligence and responsiveness.
- Produce a range of visual and motion artifacts, including concept sketches, UI mockups, interactive prototypes, motion studies, and presentations, to effectively build and communicate the goal for breakthrough experiences.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of UX Designers, Researchers, UX Engineers, Software Engineers, Research Scientists, and Product Managers.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience as a Visual Designer.
- Online portfolio showcasing visual design craft, systems thinking, and aesthetics
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience designing for AI/ML-powered products, complex systems, or emerging technologies.
- Experience working in a research-driven environment.
- Experience in designing for dynamic systems, with examples of motion design in your portfolio.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and a passion for exploring uncharted design territory.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and ability to convey complex ideas simply and persuasively.