Senior Interaction Designer, Google Research UX

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.

• Experience using AI tools throughout the design process.

• 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.

• 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

• 2 years of experience leading design projects.

• Experience designing for emerging AI technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), generative media, agentic systems, or multimodal AI interactions.

• Experience using AI-accelerated workflows and AI-assisted development tools throughout the design process.

• Experience basing design decisions in UX Research insights.

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.

Google Research creates breakthroughs, from fundamental discovery to product innovation, to benefit science and society.

Google Research UX is a team of researchers, designers, and prototypers who work at the intersection of AI research and product. We create human-centered advances in technology—identifying new opportunities, creating shared visions, and making AI capabilities tangible and useful.

As a UX Designer, you'll bring human-centered concepts to life through rapid prototyping, strong design execution, and close cross-functional collaboration.

At Google, our users come first, and the Systems Infrastructure team is at the heart of that promise. We build the technologies that transform the way we think about doing business. Whether working on our cloud systems, researching the latest in computer technology or keeping Google's internal systems humming, Googlers and users alike rely on us to keep things running. We're back-end experts: protecting your privacy and ensuring your security.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:

• Create clear, intuitive user flows and state behaviors. Design frameworks for human-AI collaboration.

• Translate research and AI model capabilities into functional, interactive prototypes using AI-assisted coding and tools.

• Deliver polished designs, considering layouts, motion, and interaction patterns by applying Google's material design system.

• Partner closely with researchers, engineers, Product Managers, and subject matter experts to translate technical constraints into intuitive user experiences.

• Navigate fast-moving research environments by using prototypes and designs to quickly test hypotheses and iterate based on feedback.