Job: Interaction Designer at Google

Location: Google in Waterloo, Ontario
Team or role: User Experience & Design

The mantra of the the User Interface (UI) team is: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” As a UI Designer, you have a strong technical background and work closely with Engineers and Product Managers to design products that are simple but great for the user, focusing on interaction and visual design. Using your keen design aesthetic you design and conduct experiments with real users so that improvements to the user experience are based on real user behavior. Your job is to make sure that our products are intuitive, accessible and usable to our millions of users.

You design and lead the UI construction for complex projects with a broad scope and evolving objectives. You contribute to the overall product strategy through concept generation, prototyping and collaboration with with UX team to promote feature integration, as well as working with researchers to design user experiments to test your designs.

Please include URLs for an online portfolio in addition to resume. Submissions without a portfolio included will not be considered.

Responsibilities

• Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
• Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS, or a related field (in lieu of degree, 5 years relevant work experience).
• 2 years relevant work experience.

Preferred qualifications

• 3 years experience designing outstanding web-based products for a consumer-oriented website.
• Excellent CSS and HTML skills; solid knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks.
• Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
• Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build good working relationships and excellent problem-solving skills.

Area

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising team: we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what our users wish to find. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. We build and maintain the platforms that have made Google what it is today, and are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising opportunities of tomorrow.

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