Staff Interaction Designer, User Experience

**In-office locations: Zürich, Switzerland.** **Remote location(s): Switzerland.** **Minimum qualifications**: - Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience working with Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Product Managers throughout the design process. - Experience designing for consumer products. **Preferred qualifications**: - Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field. - Experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization. - Experience leading design projects. - Ability to maintain confidence and professionalism when leading others through ambiguous and complex situations, influence and negotiate diplomatically and fairly with a range of stakeholders. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. **About the job**: At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Interaction Designers take complex tasks and make them intuitive and easy-to-use for billions of people around the globe. Throughout the design process—from creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes—you’ll envision how people will experience our products, and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired, refined, and even magical. Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses. As an Interaction Designer, you’ll rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences—from concept to execution. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use. The Google Calendar and Tasks team creates assistive, innovative, and engaging experiences via mobile, desktop, voice, machine learning, and more. We help individuals and groups make the most of their time. User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” **Responsibilities**: - Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies. - Drive the development of innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. - Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes. - Provide direction to UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing. 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.