Senior 3D Visual Designer, Google Maps Platform

2 Months ago • 6-9 Years • Product Design • $142,000 PA - $211,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior 3D Visual Designer at Google Maps Platform, you'll be responsible for elevating the visual experience of Google Maps across 2D and 3D environments. You will modernize the platform, own visual design, and craft key features. This includes work on cartographic experiences, canvas design, and the maps design system. You will leverage user insights and data to inform design decisions, ensuring accessibility and intuitive user journeys. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is crucial, as is driving the evolution of design frameworks and asset management processes. You will also advocate for Google products and collaborate on innovative concepts.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 6+ years visual design experience
  • 3+ years 3D modeling/visualization experience
  • Portfolio showcasing 3D work
  • User-centered design approach
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in related field
  • Experience leading design projects
  • Cinema 4D, Blender experience
  • Experience with design systems
  • Brand strategy experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
  • 3 years of experience in 3D including 3D Modeling, 3D Visualization and 3D Graphics.
  • Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
  • 2 years of experience leading design projects.
  • Experience with 3D tools including Cinema 4D, Brand Strategy, Blender.
  • Experience with Design systems.

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.

In this role, you will be dedicated to elevating Google Maps. You will shape the future of this iconic product across 2D and dimensional experiences. You will modernize Google Maps and own visual design, crafting the key features within the Maps cartographic experience across canvas design and cartography to the maps design system. You will deliver user-centered design leveraging user insights and data to inform design decisions, ensuring accessibility and an intuitive user journey.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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 .

Responsibilities

  • Drive the evolution of frameworks by collaborating with other leads to create a unified offering across Google products. 
  • Work across programs to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management.
  • Collaborate with key contributors to explore innovative concepts, influence product, and drive product commitments.
  • Advocate for Google products and its unique value proposition within the broader Google ecosystem. 
  • Partner with visual programs within our organization to evolve and apply new design styles and aesthetics for our suite of products.

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