UX Design Lead, Travel

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Job Description

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy to use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and across teams to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. You’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, and inspired products that people love to use.

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

• Define design principles and goals/success by understanding user needs and business requirements and innovate to meet local needs by creating information architecture, user flows, and interfaces.


• Understand user behavior and metrics and use them to validate business needs and user satisfaction.


• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering partners to set the overall product strategy. Lead discussions and cross-functional workshops to drive progress on strategic areas and product features.


• Lead design reviews with stakeholders for concepts and iterations. Create final designs, provide specs, and more. Collaborate with engineers to meet accessibility requirements.


• Identify, screen, and hire research vendors to conduct UXR.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, UX, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.


• 10 years of experience in UX Design.


• An online portfolio or work samples showcasing UX design work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for desktop and mobile web.


• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams of designers, researchers, content strategists, engineers, and product managers throughout the design process.


• Experience creating user-centric solutions in partnership with non-design roles (e.g., flows, wireframes, etc.) detailing user interface mockups and prototypes.


• Experience adapting and extending visual design systems/languages.


• Ability to communicate positions and advocate for designs.


• Excellent communication skills.

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