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Job Title: Senior UX Designer Navigation & Mapping Experiences Location: San Francisco, CA 94105
Contract Duration: 07 months
About the Role
As a User Experience (UX) Designer at Google, you will own outcomes for a mature project, complex program, or emerging product area. You will define scalable, sustainable design solutions for sophisticated problems and shape long-term product and UX strategy. This role requires a balance of creativity, technical fluency, and strategic thinking, working across teams to create intuitive, high-impact user experiences.
You will serve as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered methodologies, and design systems collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners to deliver polished, human-centered design solutions that elevate user experience and align with business goals.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of motion design experience in product design or UX/UI animation.
- Senior-level UX execution with a proven track record of product launches.
- Deep understanding of cartographic, typographic, and complex design systems.
- Strong collaboration skills with Product and Engineering to drive end-to-end design decisions.
- Working knowledge of web coding (CSS) to support internal prototyping and coded systems.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills to articulate design rationale to stakeholders and leadership.
- Portfolio required (include link or access instructions in resume).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for maps, navigation systems, or spatial interfaces (driving/walking).
- Expertise in data-informed design and cross-functional product development.
- Proven ability to manage multiple design streams and contribute to broader design strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Driving Navigation
- Finalize production design and asset delivery to engineering.
- Complete and implement final visual styling for landmarks in 2D, 2.5D, and 3D across configurations.
Walking Navigation
- Lead the core 3D walking navigation design, focusing on usability and hero use cases.
- Collaborate with product leads to identify design adaptations and close data gaps for walking journeys.
- Partner with visual design teams on concepts and prototypes for leadership review and engineering validation.
Project & Team Support
- Support design needs at scale, enhancing team capacity and design consistency.
- Participate in design critiques, sprint planning, and stakeholder meetings to ensure alignment.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for cross-functional partners, ensuring design intent is maintained through delivery.
- Conduct design reviews, provide detailed feedback, and ensure quality control across design outputs.
Core Responsibilities (General UX Scope)
- Collaborate with engineers and PMs to guide design specifications and product implementation.
- Evaluate and propose new metrics to assess design impact and product performance.
- Drive design improvements through UX testing and stakeholder feedback.
- Develop design systems, frameworks, and scalable patterns for multi-platform experiences.
- Apply systems thinking to ensure cohesive, accessible, and future-proof design solutions.
- Communicate design strategy effectively, aligning stakeholders around shared UX goals.
- Mentor designers, guiding design ideation, research, and testing initiatives.