Senior Staff UX Design Manager, Gmail

About the role

At Google, we focus on the user and all else will follow. As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem-level UX. You are a systems-level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and execution of an agentic Gmail, utilizing emerging AI trends and user insights to reimagine legacy workflows into an innovative, cohesive user experience.
• Manage a talented group of designers while actively shaping the culture, operations, and identity of the broader Gmail UX organization to foster innovation, collaboration, and grit.
• Collaborate closely with UX and cross-functional leads across Gmail and Google Workspace, bringing a strong, principled design point of view to decision-making for 3+ billion global users.
• Guide the team in developing positioning frameworks, user journeys, prototypes, and end-to-end specs, clearly communicating design concepts and rationale to cross-functional peers.
• Uphold an uncompromising bar for design quality across desktop and mobile surfaces, successfully driving outcomes from minimum lovable products through to general availability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.
• 3 years of work experience working with executive leaders.
• 2 years of experience designing and shipping user experiences for Generative AI products.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• Experience working with component based design systems, as well as prototyping with AI, web or mobile based technologies.
• Strong core interaction design skills, knowledge of user-centric design methodologies.
• Experience simplifying complexity through design.
• Proficient with industry standard design and prototyping tools.
• Strong grasp of emerging AI technology and trends in productivity.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile.

Skills

• Systems-level thinking.
• Fierce advocacy for users and teams.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Designing and shipping user experiences.
• Emerging AI trends and user insights.
• Quality assurance across desktop and mobile surfaces.

Benefits

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

Pay

US: $236,000 - $330,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate remote work options.