Senior Staff Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced, visionary designer to shape the evolution of conversational AI from a passive responder into a proactive partner.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

Responsibilities

• Apply deep understanding of model capabilities to guide prompt engineering and prototyping strategies, ensuring the delivery of consistently high-quality model outputs.
• Initiate qualitative assessments of model performance, applying mastery of the eval process to develop a strategy for continuous quality hillclimbing.
• Partner with AI product designers to craft leading-edge multimodal solutions, ensuring model responses and UI components work in concert to deliver cohesive, high quality experiences.
• Stay current on the latest design trends and technologies, in consumer technology, generative AI and natural language processing, and leverage this knowledge to innovate.

Requirements

• Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Cognitive science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Linguistics, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in Conversation Design, Content Design, with equivalent experience designing for conversational AI/LLMs.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in vibe-coding and developing AI-powered prototypes.
• Experience in guiding cross-functional teams through ideation, validation, and iteration processes, transforming abstract ideas into shippable products.
• Experience developing in a startup environment, comfortable with the ambiguity, rapid iteration, and resourcefulness required to deliver impactful designs in a fast-paced, evolving landscape.
• Experience in interaction design.
• Familiarity with behavioral data and strong capability to create data-driven designs, while being equally capable of moving forward in the absence of data.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year