Staff UX Designer, Devices and Services

USER_EXPERIENCE
USA
March 20, 2026
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    March 20, 2026
  • Location
    USA
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

2026-03-18T12:30:10.008Z

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Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  • 4 years of experience leading design projects.
  • 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

About the job

At Google, we “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

As an Interaction Designer, you’ll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.

Seed Studio is an innovation group within Google hardware design working in the intersection of design strategy, advanced concepts and creative services to grasp and inform the future of hardware. Help us design, define, and build the future of human-computer interaction. Google works on technologies to enable the next generation of immersive devices and platforms.

In this role, you will focus on ideating and prototyping new form factors and interfaces for agentic computing. You will be inventive in exploring novel paradigms that go beyond traditional models. You will partner closely with visual and motion designers, industrial designers, UX researchers, engineers, and product leads. You will craft compelling user journeys that make advanced technology personal, powerful, and delightful for everyone. As a core contributor, you will own project outcomes by leading the search for solutions to open-ended design problems, using storytelling and prototyping to communicate and validate new ideas.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + 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

  • Drive discovery of future opportunities for Google hardware through the prototyping and validation of new form factors, interfaces, and interaction models.
  • Solve ambiguous and complex design problems involving new paradigms for agentic computing.
  • Work alongside strategists, visual/motion designers and creative technologists to shape product narratives and define product features.
  • Partner with cross-functional and cross-product teams to align on and define product goal and strategy.
  • Own, deliver and communicate design work with strategic reasoning behind design decisions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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