Staff Interaction Designer, Google Beam

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.

The Google Beam UX team works on cutting-edge technologies to enable the next generation of immersive experiences and platforms. We design, prototype, and research the experiences and interactions that set the direction for Google's emerging products in 3D video calling; experiences that deliver on a promise to provide our users with lovable, approachable, and truly helpful technology.

In this role, you will help craft a multi-year product goal and design detailed, ship-ready experiences that align cross-functional stakeholders in a cohesive, collaborative way. You will solve highly ambiguous spatial and system interaction challenges, establishing robust design quality processes, and leading design alignment with key partners. You will apply your passion for craft to bridge UX exploration and engineering execution, pioneer interactive prototyping workflows, leveraging AI tools, and define generative AI futures for 3D communication.

Google Beam is a true-to-life new communication technology from Google that allows people to feel like they’re having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic state-of-the-art 3D imaging and spatial audio and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, Google Beam enables you to be immersed in the moment, together. As a part of the Google Beam team, you'll work with incredible teammates across all major functions in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with Google products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.

Responsibilities

• Define and galvanize the long-term user experience strategy for the Beam platform, driving alignment among cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Product, and Research. Ensure the design goal remains the central pillar of product development.
  
• Partner closely with User Research to evaluate the emotional resonance, usability, and delight of call experiences. Enable sophisticated user studies by designing and setting up high-fidelity simulated experiences, allowing researchers to gather deep signal on product direction through controlled environmental settings.
  
• Manage and resolve highly ambiguous design problems, including spatial design, depth-based hierarchy, and the unique constraints of spatial layouts within a 3D environment, while prioritizing and optimizing for connection and presence.
  
• Lead cross-functional UX alignment with strategic partner design and engineering teams. Facilitate design workshops and establish foundational interaction patterns to ensure platform unity and consistent user experiences.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
  
• Experience in spatial UI ergonomics, lighting, texture, and materials within 3D environments.
• 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.
  
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
  
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  
• 4 years of experience leading design projects.
  
• 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.
  
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence to accelerate and expand design workflows, utilize Generative AI for creative concepting, asset generation, and rapid aesthetic exploration to expand the boundaries of the possible in a 3D context.