UX Designer, In-Car Experience

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Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Design at Waymo is about the total experience—not just how the product looks, but how it works, how it feels, and how we make our new technology accessible, approachable, and useful for everyone. We design the intuitive, delightful experience for our riders, and we also build the powerful, complex tools used by our fleet operations teams and the engineers who build the Waymo Driver. We are a highly multidisciplinary team of UX Designers, User and Market Researchers, UX Engineers, Content Designers, Industrial Designers, CAD Designers, Studio Engineers, and Technical Artists. We dig deep to understand the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of all our users. This understanding serves as the foundation for everything we create.

In this hybrid role, you will report to a Manager of UX Design.

 

You will:

  • Craft the in-Car experience by partnering closely with the Creative Lead, PM, Eng, and UXR to define, craft, and maintain the core structures that translate the Waymo experience across different vehicles coming to the market
  • Expand System-level entertainment by solving for creating an intuitive "lean-back" and ambient experience that rivals the best home-hub, smart-TV, or automotive infotainment interfaces 
  • Execute for scaling by engaging in a hands-on, iterative design cycle to build system-level UI, transitions, and frameworks. You will generate bold ideas and translate them into patterns, prototypes, and interactions that define the future  
  • Evolve our natural interface frameworks by helping to define the architectural roadmap for future multimodal interaction paradigms, including voice, touch, gesture, and cross-device interaction
  • Ensure global readiness by supporting internationalization and localization efforts to ensure the vehicle platform is ready for global expansion into markets like Japan and the UK

You have:

  • 3-7 years of professional product design experience, with a clear background in designing for complex, multi-form factor interactions 
  • Applied structured, system-level thinking to navigate ambiguous problems and define scalable UX patterns
  • Domain knowledge in media / entertainment related apps or platforms such as IoT, smart TV, connected home systems, or automotive infotainment
  • The ability to clearly communicate design rationale and advocate for system-level decisions to cross-functional partners through storytelling, clear user-centered rationale, and compelling prototypes
  • Demonstrated success in collaborating closely with cross-functional partners in product management, engineering, research, and data science in an innovative, fast-paced environment
  • Able to travel domestically/internationally as needed 1-2x per year as needed

We prefer:

  • Familiarity with emerging technologies: Experience with (AI, ML, conversational interfaces, or spatial computing) 
  • Passion for AI Tools: A genuine interest in emerging AI tools (e.g., Google AI Studio, Figma Make) and their practical application within the design process.
  • Experience working on consumer facing hardware / software 
  • Complexity Navigation: A track record of finding creative solutions for rigid technical constraints like connectivity, bandwidth, and varying hardware specifications

The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Salary Range
$196,000—$248,000 USD
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