Seed Studio Visual Design Manager, Devices and Services

In this role within Google Hardware’s Seed Studio, you will lead UX visual design efforts for Devices & Services, shaping ecosystem-level experiences while guiding teams from early concepts through execution. You will help define product strategy, reduce complexity, and establish visual design system or language direction across surfaces.

As a UX Design Manager, you will drive the vision by conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX and defining product strategy for Seed Studio within Devices & Services. The work focuses on mitigating complexity and translating design direction into coherent visual, motion, and system outputs across existing and future surfaces.

• Lead design projects that either conceptualize individual products or define goals for an entire category.
• Lead the team in the development and execution of Pixel Watch Watch Faces.
• Provide direction and leadership to visual designers exploring future opportunities for Google Hardware, and deliver visual, motion, and system design directions for existing surfaces.
• Create visual presentations, storyboards, and prototypes that communicate solutions and context to peers, users, and leadership.
• Drive a holistic design process, including a design system or design language, across teams or products.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
• Experience implementing visual design systems across platforms in an iterative software development environment.
• Include a portfolio, website, or other relevant link to your work in your resume, with viewable access or instructions.

• Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of work experience collaborating with executive leaders.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary UX or product teams (motion, interaction, UX research, engineering, content strategy) on technical implementation.
• Experience conceiving and documenting solutions using personas, user journeys, storyboards, value propositions, and sketches.
• Experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.

Seed Studio is an innovation and design studio within Google Hardware Design. The team works at the intersection of design strategy, advanced concepts, and creative exploration to inform a future of human-centered technology. The Devices & Services team combines Google AI, software, and hardware to create experiences intended to be radically helpful for users.

In this role, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, while collaborating with design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language.

Location: Mountain View, CA (onsite)

Salary: USD 188, per year.

Additional compensation (US): 20% bonus target + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

• Health benefits: health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement: 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Leaves: Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks;
  Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.