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| Employment Type: | Permanent |
| Location: | Canada |
| Salary: | Excellent |
| Languages: | English |
Interaction Designer - Waterloo
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This position is based in Waterloo, Canada.
The area: Commerce and Local
There's always more information out there, and often, the information that matters most is what's nearest to you. The Commerce and Local team is made up of our geography and e-commerce experts. When we're not mapping the Amazon rainforest, we're helping you buy a bike, recommending the best slice of pizza within pedaling distance, providing directions on how to get there, and letting you pay for it via your phone. From Google Maps and Google Places to Google Offers and Google Wallet, the Commerce and Local team helps our users navigate the world around them.
The role: 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.
Responsibilities:
* Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
* Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
Minimum Qualifications:
* BA/BS in Interaction Design/Graphic Design or related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
* 2 years relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
* 3 years experience designing outstanding web-based products for a consumer-oriented website.
* Excellent CSS and HTML skills; solid knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks.
* Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
* Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build good working relationships and excellent problem-solving skills.
Apply now
Our jobs website has moved! See all of our current job openings at www.google.com/jobs.
Apply now
This position is based in Waterloo, Canada.
The area: Commerce and Local
There's always more information out there, and often, the information that matters most is what's nearest to you. The Commerce and Local team is made up of our geography and e-commerce experts. When we're not mapping the Amazon rainforest, we're helping you buy a bike, recommending the best slice of pizza within pedaling distance, providing directions on how to get there, and letting you pay for it via your phone. From Google Maps and Google Places to Google Offers and Google Wallet, the Commerce and Local team helps our users navigate the world around them.
The role: 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.
Responsibilities:
* Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
* Develop high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
Minimum Qualifications:
* BA/BS in Interaction Design/Graphic Design or related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
* 2 years relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
* 3 years experience designing outstanding web-based products for a consumer-oriented website.
* Excellent CSS and HTML skills; solid knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks.
* Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
* Must be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build good working relationships and excellent problem-solving skills.
Apply now
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