Senior Model UX Designer, GeminiApp, DeepMind at Google in Mountain View, CA, USA

Job description

• 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.
• We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
• Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• US: $160,000 - $231,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Apply deep understanding of model capabilities to guide prompt engineering and prototyping strategies, ensuring the delivery of consistently high-quality, context-aware and personalized model outputs.
• Initiate qualitative assessments of model performance, applying mastery of the eval process to develop a strategy for continuous quality hillclimbing to improve personalization experiences across the app.
• 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.
• Develop system instructions for intuitive UX patterns and user controls for context, user preferences, and memory.
• 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

• 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 or adaptive, personalized systems.
• Experience in vibe-coding and developing AI-powered prototypes.
• Demonstrated experience growing in a startup environment, comfortable with the ambiguity, rapid iteration, and resourcefulness to deliver impactful designs in a changing, evolving landscape.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Familiarity with behavioral data and strong capability to create data-driven yet personalized 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 tests partners with new product design thinking.

Skills

Required

• Conversation design
• Content design
• Designing for conversational AI/LLMs
• Adaptive, personalized systems
• Prompt engineering
• Prototyping
• Eval process
• System instructions
• UX patterns
• User controls
• English proficiency

Preferred

• Vibe-coding
• Developing AI-powered prototypes
• Figma
• Behavioral data analysis
• Data-driven design
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Articulating positions

Benefits

• In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
• 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
• 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; Seattle, WA, USA.
• Info In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: 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 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; Seattle, WA, USA.