UX Designer, Google Maps

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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of interaction design experience in product design or UX design.
• Experience integrating and using AI in design workflows.
• 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.
• 2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 1 year of experience leading design projects.
• Experience with 3D design environments, spatial UI, or immersive storytelling.
• Understanding of the unique constraints of navigation-heavy user journeys.
• Ability to maintain design system consistency within live, evolving platforms.

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.

As a UX Designer, you will join the Driving Experience (DX) team. This role will be an integral part of the team's ongoing focus on visual guidance and disruptions, driving the design of elements within turn-by-turn navigation, traffic, alerts, and alternative routing.

In this role, you will solve one of our most critical user challenges: reducing driver stress by translating complex logistics, maneuvers, and real-time data into simple, glanceable interfaces. You will focus on creating a seamless, trustworthy, and effortless experience, especially when navigating complex situations on the road.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$189,000 + 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

• Identify critical user journeys and design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that help achieve business objectives for visual guidance and disruptions.
• Create a range of design concepts (e.g., mock-ups, prototypes, models) to express ideas for user research/testing in collaboration with UX researchers. This includes enhancing turn-by-turn navigation, mid-trip alerts clarity and actionability, and improving the comprehension of disruptions and alternative route information.
• Improve designs based on UX testing, engineering feasibility, and collaboration across partner/stakeholder/UX leaders.
• Drive design improvements for on-map elements such as Road Labels and mid-trip alternate routes (alts).
• Utilize AI in your creative process and productivity and contribute to the evolution of the UX Design role in relation to AI and AI tooling.

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 .