Marketing UX Designer - San Bruno  

This position is based in San Bruno, CA.

The area: YouTube and Video

The first video posted on YouTube was a 19-second clip called "Me at the Zoo." Today, more than 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute. The YouTube and Video team helps budding filmmakers and musicians build careers, creates products like Google TV and YouTube Live and runs collaborative projects like Life in a Day and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. We are leading a change in how we entertain, inform and share with one another, whether through cat videos or footage of a revolution in progress.

The role: Marketing UX Designer

The mantra of the the User Interface (UI) team is: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UI Designer, you have a strong technical background and work closely with Engineers and Product Managers to design products that are simple but great for the user, focusing on interaction and visual design. Using your keen design aesthetic you design and conduct experiments with real users so that improvements to the user experience are based on real user behavior. Your job is to make sure that our products are intuitive, accessible and usable to our millions of users.

You design and lead the UI construction for complex projects with a broad scope and evolving objectives. You contribute to the overall product strategy through concept generation, prototyping and collaboration with with UX team to promote feature integration, as well as working with researchers to design user experiments to test your designs.

As a UX designer working on marketing deliverables, you will have the hybrid role of of creating polished, user friendly designs for YouTube marketing initiatives. Your designs should promote campaign goals, while adhering to style guidelines established by the UX team. You will extend the existing brand guidelines and create versatile templates that can satisfy marketing needs and reduce development resources.

Responsibilities:

• Create a consistent look for marketing initiative on YouTube that build on the site experience
• Communicate effectively in a cross-functional product development team and present ideas and designs effectively.
• Give constructive and effective feedback on marketing initiatives from starting strategy to final pixel details to reigning in unnecessary work.
• Present polished and well-articulated work to the marketing team as a consultant would to a client
• Evolve guidelines for the YouTube brand and create logo deliverables for external use

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Graphic Design, Advertising Design, or related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
• 6 years work experience in web design and/or digital brand development, ideally in a branding firm or interactive consultancy reflected in an online portfolio or reel
• Experience in client management, brand development, or strategy consulting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience designing outstanding web-based marketing products that work within branding guidelines and support on-strategy decisions.
• Strong understanding of identity, typography, color, and layout for digital and traditional media
• Fluent in Adobe Photoshop and/or Fireworks, with a strong knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale to stakeholders as well as pixel-level decisions to web developers.
• Self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines. Ability to work collaboratively and apply creative feedback in a team environment. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships.
• Understanding of how consumer technology is evolving, and YouTube's strategic and competitive position in this landscape.