Android Interaction Designer - Mountain View  

This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: Mobile

Making the world's information universally accessible and useful doesn't stop at the desktop. The Mobile team builds tools to get you the information you need no matter where you are. Our open-source Android operating system has become the world's most popular mobile ecosystem, powering hundreds of devices from smartphones to tablets. Whether adding to the core Android experience, forging new markets for digital content, creating immersive and portable versions of our products or managing relationships with a global community of developers, the Mobile team is giving you Google on the go.

The role: Android Interaction Designer

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 send URLs for an online portfolio in addition to resume and cover letter. Submissions without a portfolio will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Help define the user experience for the Android platform and Android applications
• Create documentation that enables Android developers to build software that fosters a delightful user experience
• Act as the primary driver and coordinator for the design team
• Collaborate with researchers, visual designers, prototypers, product managers and software engineers
• Participate in regular design reviews and other team-wide design efforts

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA or BS in human-computer interaction or a related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)
• 3 years of experience designing software interfaces

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with the basic software tools of the trade; mobile software experience
• Detailed and practical understanding of best practices in user experience design
• Outstanding verbal and written communications skills
• Good project management and implementation skills
• The ability to juggle multiple projects on tight deadlines without compromising quality
• A positive, enthusiastic attitude and the ambition to tackle the biggest problems in computing