Surfaces Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind

About the role

In this role, you will shape the evolution of Gemini’s mobile experience on Floaty, turning it into a seamless, contextual, and highly listenable assistant. As a key member of the Gemini App Model UX team, you will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and research scientists to solve unique multimodal and voice issues for a highly visible representative experience of Gemini.

Responsibilities

• Specify the ideal conversational structures, query categorization logic, and underlying interaction patterns that bring voice, text, and multimodal entry points to life.
• Implement advanced system instructions (SIs) that optimize dynamic responses based on user signals and device capabilities.
• Apply systems thinking to deliver flexible solutions that scale across a range of devices.
• Initiate qualitative assessments of model performance, establishing principle-based rubrics to drive continuous quality hillclimbing across core user journeys (CUJs).
• Partner with AI product designers to craft leading-edge multimodal solutions, ensuring model responses, device signals, and screen relevancy work in concert to deliver cohesive, glanceable experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Linguistics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in conversation design, content design, with equivalent experience designing for conversational AI/LLMs.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in interaction design, particularly managing mixed tactile/voice entry points and mid-conversation modality switching.
• Experience in guiding cross-functional teams through ideation, validation, and iteration processes, transforming abstract ideas into shippable, user-centered model behavior.
• Experience in vibe-coding and developing AI-powered prototypes.
• Familiarity with behavioral data and strong capability to utilize user signals and lifecycle data to create data-driven designs, while being equally capable of moving forward in the absence of data.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to articulate positions, and challenge cross-functional partners with rigorous model UX principles.

Qualifications

• Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skills

• Experience in conversation design, content design, with equivalent experience designing for conversational AI/LLMs.
• Experience in interaction design, particularly managing mixed tactile/voice entry points and mid-conversation modality switching.
• Experience in guiding cross-functional teams through ideation, validation, and iteration processes, transforming abstract ideas into shippable, user-centered model behavior.
• Experience in vibe-coding and developing AI-powered prototypes.
• Familiarity with behavioral data and strong capability to utilize user signals and lifecycle data to create data-driven designs, while being equally capable of moving forward in the absence of data.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to articulate positions, and challenge cross-functional partners with rigorous model UX principles.

Benefits

• Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Pay

• US: $159000 - $231000 (USD)

Schedule

• Not specified