Staff Visual Designer Lead, YouTube Shorts and Creation
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
- 5 years of experience designing for video editing and mobile products or 4 years of experience designing consumer product experiences.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
- 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- Experience designing for video editing and mobile products.
- Skilled and flexible when operating in a fast-paced, constantly evolving and collaborative environment.
- Proven track record of designing for consumer product experiences across complex projects.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.
As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.
YouTube is the epicenter of culture, where billions of users come to immerse themselves in the biggest cultural moments and creators continue to reinvent entertainment. As the Visual Design Lead for YouTube Shorts & Creation, you’ll be responsible for creating scalable and beautiful design systems across YouTube Shorts, for both viewers and creators. This will include developing user-centered visual strategies and scalable frameworks that empower the team to transform how users discover, create, and express themselves through the intersection of short-form video and cutting-edge generative AI.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Establish visual strategies that reinforce user-centered mental models for new features (including visual branding/identity and motion design).
- Reimagine Shorts surfaces and experiences by leveraging and evolving YouTube’s design system in partnership with YouTube’s central design system team.
- Create beautiful visual designs within technical constraints and demonstrate the direction with prototypes.
- Provide direction to UX designers and develop visual design frameworks that can be leveraged by UX designers.
- Drive design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business outcomes.
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