Staff Visual Designer, Labs

USER_EXPERIENCE
USA
February 13, 2026
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    February 13, 2026
  • Location
    USA
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

2026-02-03T09:30:16.949Z

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • Experience in prototyping.
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume highlighting experience in visual design (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 cross-functional organization.
  • 4 years of experience leading design projects.
  • 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.

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 behaviors and perceptions of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As a Visual Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.

Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $178,000-$265,000 + 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

  • Lead the visual strategy and brand identity for AI-native products, ensuring a cohesive but adaptable design language across experimental workstreams.
  • Help improve model output quality by prompt engineering and applying core visual design principles such as typography, space, layout, and color.
  • Architect and maintain a visual design system that allows engineering teams to move at startup speeds without sacrificing craft.
  • Utilize AI-powered design tools to rapidly prototype and iterate on various visual directions, effectively communicating early-stage concepts and user journeys.

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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