The area: User Experience

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.

The role: Interaction Designer

As a UI Designer, you will work closely with engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the product cycle. You are a critical thinker with a good design sense, a strong technical background, and an eye for making things better. Interaction Designers work on projects that have an impact on the web experience of millions of Google users.

Responsibilities:
Helping to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features.
Developing high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
Gauging the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.
Requirements:
Solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field (BS or MS in Computer
Science or related field a big plus.)
Demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces.
Expert HTML and CSS skills.
Excellent knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes.
Strong, clean visual design sense.
Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.