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Staff Visual Designer, Google Drive

Google · United States · On-site

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About the role

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.

What they're looking for

  • 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)
More about this role
  • Establish and advocate the visual design direction across drive (Web, Android, iOS), defining typographic scale, dynamic color palettes, spatial layouts, iconography, and high-density scannability for both consumer and enterprise surfaces.
  • Architect, scale, and govern robust Figma design systems and structures in close partnership with the Workspace Design System (WDS) and Carbon teams ensuring unified component consistency, theming support and cross-surface scalability across Workspace.
  • Define the motion design principles and choreograph purposeful interaction transitions for drive (e.g., drag-and-drop mechanics, file preview states, loading/shimmer patterns, and navigation transitions) to clarify spatial hierarchy, orient user focus, and introduce expressive delight.
  • Design next-generation visual frameworks and motion language for Gemini in drive, turning complex AI behaviors such as dynamic content synthesis, agentic workflows, and semantic search into scannable, visually trustworthy, and fluid user experiences.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant...

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