Title: Social Platform UX Designer
Duration: 03 months
Location: Mountain View, CA - Hybrid
About the Role:
As a UX Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the community experiences on our popular platform. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, test, and deliver inclusive, helpful, and trusted user experiences. Your expertise will contribute to product strategy and tactical design through information architecture, storytelling, and pixel-perfect designs aligned with Client standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop user-centered detailed designs that adhere to YouTube's design language and are suitable for engineering development.
- Collaborate closely with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to define requirements, make informed decisions, and deliver design work aligned with business goals, technical feasibility, and the product vision.
- Work with engineers during feature development to address edge cases and implementation questions.
Qualifications:
Mandatory:
- Bachelor’s degree in design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of experience in product design or UX.
- Experience designing across multiple platforms and working with technical and design teams to create user flows, wireframes, and UI mockups/prototypes.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating advanced design skills, including strategic thinking, high-quality deliverables, and process.
Desired:
- Experience working on consumer-focused products.
- A natural communicator who can effectively convey design rationale and keep teams informed.
- Specialization in interaction design and product thinking, with solid visual design skills and experience in prototyping and user research.
- Experience working within and contributing to design systems and building accessible products.
- Self-starter with excellent organizational skills.
- A curious, open-minded, and ego-free professional with a growth mindset.
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.