UX Motion Designer, YouTube Ads Creative - Google
New York, NY
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of motion design experience in product design or UX/UI animation.
- 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, or a related field.
- Experience with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to responsive design for platforms such as desktop and mobile.
- Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features, all with a user-centered design process.
- Ability to communicate complex, sometimes abstract, design concepts clearly and persuasively to influence product design strategy.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
About the job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s Motion Designers collaborate with cross-functional partners to create desirable and relevant product experiences that consistently elevate the Google brand. They help people make sense of their world by choreographing experiences that feel fluid, natural, and informative.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 attitudes, emotions, and behaviors 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 Motion Designer, you’ll apply your passion for animation to simplify complex interactions and solve challenging design problems. You’ll help define and implement Google’s motion design language and you’ll think critically about how motion reinforces Google’s UX brand, enhances interactivity, and delights our users.
We are the Creative team and we democratize advertising on YouTube by making formats that are simple, unified, intentional, flexible, modern, and performant. We combine formats with assets, using state of the art technology to enhance and generate entirely new assets.Advertisers trust us to tell their stories on their behalf, and to represent and elevate their brands. We conduct experiments, provide insights, and deliver these Ads via personalization at scale that can only exist at Google.
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
- Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.
- Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates and advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements.
- Demonstrate detail-oriented animation, based on timing and relationships.
- Contribute to motion system development and production for asset-based creatives on YouTube, translating this work into documentation.
