
Visual Designer, Android XR
San Francisco, CAJob$132–189K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Visual Designer will join Google’s multidisciplinary XR Design team to shape experiences and interactions for XR platforms, devices, and products. The role uses user-centered design methods from concept through execution, collaborating with Engineering, Product Management, and design partners. The team works on technologies for next-generation AI and XR experiences, including smart glasses and headsets, and evolves Google’s design language to create accessible, polished products.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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4 years of visual design experience in product design or UX/UI design.
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Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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2 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
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1 year of experience leading design projects.
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Portfolio demonstrating experience in hardware/software interaction design, design systems, and mobile UX.
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Familiarity with motion design and 3D tools.
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Expertise in design tools like Figma.
About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Visual Designers weave space, typography, color, and iconography to help people successfully navigate our products, ensuring they are beautiful and accessible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to leverage user insights and create industry-leading products.
As a Visual Designer, you will rely on user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution. You will collaborate with your design partners to leverage and evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative, inspired products that people love to use.
The XR Design team works on technologies to enable the next generation of AI and XR experiences and devices. We design, prototype, and research the experiences and interactions that set the direction for XR platform and products.
For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. The XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Develop and collaborate on visual design projects across the portfolio of XR devices and experiences, developing user-centric solutions within a novel and fast-developing product space.
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Communicate designs to build excitement and consensus across teams, and gain support for design strategy across stakeholders.
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Deliver polished, exceptional design executions that set the bar for great design and align with brand and established UX patterns.
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Partner closely with cross-functional teams (across UXD, VisD, UXE, UXR, PM, Eng) to envision, prioritize, develop, prototype and execute designs.
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Build and document design solutions that effectively scale within the XR platform.
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How this job compares
Set against the 592 open UX Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$132–189K/yr
- California median$158–215K/yr120 salary ranges
- US median$138–192K/yr417 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $161K, is 13% below the California median midpoint ($185K) — in the lowest quarter of UX Designer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 158 open UX Designer jobs in California and 592 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; UX Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (509 postings).
- Education
- 121 of the 592 open UX Designer jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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