Senior Motion and Visual Designer, YouTube, Art Department
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of motion design experience in product design, UX design, or UX/UI animation.
- Experience in motion design related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
- 2 years of experience leading design projects.
- Understand the intricacies of UI elements (color, type, layout, iconography, surfaces) and work with the tools and cross-functional partners needed to maintain a polished user experience.
- Ability to advocate for principled design systems and consistent design language across multiple platforms.
- Ability to be a strategic thinker who can work within constraints to deliver on a broader goal.
- Ability to be detail oriented with a strong sense of form, choreography, and composition.
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.
The YouTube Art Department is looking for a creative and systematic Senior Motion and Visual Designer. This is an exciting opportunity to not only define the visual language of a global brand but to bring it to life through expressive and cohesive motion design systems.
In this role, you will shape YouTube's visual identity in a product. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across YouTube to evolve and maintain our visual and motion language across all of our products.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.
Responsibilities
- Create high quality design proposals and drive projects from concept to iterations and implementation.
- Advocate the YouTube brand by developing and promoting motion guidelines, resources, and tools for YouTube Standards.
- Take ownership over a gamut of motion projects through ideation, execution, art direction, and approvals.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to help strategize, consult on, and implement a myriad of compelling product features.
- Work within the hard constraints of existing YouTube motion capabilities, and actively explore emerging technologies.
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