User Experience Designer, Google TV Job Listing at Google in Mountain View, CA (Job ID googleus-34173)

Media / Publishing, Business Services

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.

Responsibilities

* Understand - gain a deep understanding of user motivations, market opportunities and competition
* Envision - work with PM's and Dev's to create a vision for discovering and engaging with content
* Design - create storyboards, mockups, and experience prototypes to guide development
* Collaborate - rapidly iterate on design based on user feedback, tech constraints, market dynamics
* Make - guide development to faithfully implement fantastic experiences on tv, table and phone

Minimum qualifications

* BA/BS (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)
* 5 years experience managing interactive, design, or creative projects

Preferred qualifications

* 4 years relevant work experience, including demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces
* Knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes
* Excellent communication and teamwork skills
* Strong, clean visual design sense
* Solid understanding of hand-held device/web/mobile graphics techniques and production practices