What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visual Designer, YouTube Ads position at YouTube?
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience in Visual Design, Motion Design, and UX Design.
- Experience with branding graphic design.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 1 year of experience leading design projects.
- Experience with display advertising.
- Knowledge of design patterns and brand identity systems.
- Knowledge of design thinking methodologies.
- Ability to lead and ideate products and improve features, all with a user-centered design process.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and knowledge of technical constraints and limitations as they apply to responsive design for platforms such as desktop and mobile.
About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, iconography, and texture together to help people successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible.
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 behaviors and perceptions 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 a Visual 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.
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
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions, while building relationships with partners across YouTube.
- Communicate the user experience throughout the design process using wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Integrate user feedback and business requirements into product updates, and advocate for the prioritization of design-centered changes and improvements.
- Develop the team's competency in aesthetics and composition by building a community of practice focused on visual design principles, and help align the team's visual direction and standards.
- Lead the development and production of motion, illustration, and design systems for asset-based creatives on YouTube, including the creation of documentation.
