Google San Francisco User Experience Opportunities (Soma / South Beach)

Google San Francisco User Experience Opportunities

With the lights of Oakland and the Berkeley Hills to our East, the home of the SF Giants within walking distance, and the bustling life of the SoMa (South of Market) neighborhood right outside, Google's San Francisco office is located in the hot spot for the city's tech companies. Easily accessible via SF MUNI and BART, the San Francisco Office is home to Google.org, Engineering, Product, Advertising Sales and Operations, DoubleClick, and Corporate Communications. Having an office here allows us to not only be more responsive to our users and customers, but also helps us to nurture client relationships with San Francisco-based companies.
Creativity and innovation drive our SF office. Our San Francisco engineers work on a range of projects including developer products (Google App Engine) and programs (code.google.com and advocacy), cluster management, site reliability engineering, Gmail, enterprise applications, security engineering & operations, internal sales applications, and infrastructure quantitative research.
Other Googlers in San Francisco work on initiatives that are just as varied. Our Google.org team is focused on renewable energy, fostering economic growth in developing countries, and a range of other projects. Our Advertising Sales, Operations, and DoubleClick teams help clients -- from Fortune 100 companies to local mom-and-pop shops to ad agencies -- attract customers using Google solutions.
Just like the beautiful city by the bay, the SF Office is dynamic and exciting and we hope to see you here soon!
Engineering teams in our Boston office work on large scale distributed systems, performance tuning, web applications and mobile platforms. At all times, we match projects with our employees' background and interests. Boston engineers are experts in C++, Java, AJAX and HTML and are currently focusing on these key areas:
Search Quality
We parse user queries, select and rank matching pages, and summarize results for the user. We have a team of experts who are world-renowned experts in a variety of technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, machine learning and information retrieval and extraction. Ever wonder how Google Book Search works? We help make that happen!
Web Applications
We work on products that our users love! These include Image Search, Friend Connect, and other next generation social networking applications that are too cool to talk about yet!
Infrastructure and Application Back-Ends
We have teams working on key components of the Google infrastructure such as the Google File System, Big Table and MapReduce. These groups focus on distributed computing, large-scale infrastructure, content delivery and network performance tuning. Our team also helps to make Youtube and Google Video bigger and better. It's so exciting that you probably won't believe it's work!
Mobile
We are developing applications to make your mobile computing experience better. We can't get into too much detail about the specifics but it's safe to say you'll find it very interesting!
Clients
We also work on projects to make browsing the web faster and better, including Chrome and Chrome OS.
We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're passionately interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. The User Experience team is a critical driving force behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We are a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, copywriters and Web developers who collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create innovative, usable, great-looking products that people love to use.
See all of our open User Experience positions at Google San Francisco!
Featured Positions
Visual Designer, Rich Media Mobile Services - San Francisco
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.
You design and lead the UI construction for complex projects with a broad scope and evolving objectives. You contribute to the overall product strategy through concept generation, prototyping and collaboration with with UX team to promote feature integration, as well as working with researchers to design user experiments to test your designs. Qualifications include:
Minimum Qualifications:
BA/BS degree in Graphic Design or related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years of relevant experience).
2 years relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
3 years of experience designing outstanding web-based products for a consumer-oriented website individually or as a key member of a UI team.
Ability to drive communication of conceptual ideas and design rationale.
Strong experience with design tools (Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks, Illustrator, video production).
Self-motivated to prioritize and manage work load and meet critical project milestones and deadlines.
Ability to communicate effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and designs effectively.
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