AI Product Designer, GeminiApp Core Experience

Snapshot

Join Google DeepMind as a Sr. AI Product Designer on the Gemini App team, focusing on Core Experience innovation for web & desktop. This is a unique opportunity to be at the cutting edge of AI interface experimentation, tackling ambiguous, high-impact design challenges. You'll be instrumental in inventing novel interaction patterns and rich multimodal experiences for users to get the most out of AI. Your work will push the boundaries of interface design beyond today’s chat logs based on messaging apps to create tomorrow’s “natively AI” interfaces.

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

As a Sr. AI Product Designer to lead our Core Experience initiatives for the Gemini App, you'll be responsible for crafting new, novel, and intuitive experiences that help users get the most value out of AI on the web & desktop. Your charter is to define “first of their kind” experiences that are striking, original, and offer unprecedented experiences with AI. When done right, your work will be embraced as simple, approachable, and beloved by users around the world.

You'll operate as a strategic partner, collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, data scientists, and marketers. Together, you'll ideate, design, and implement solutions that not only enhance the user journey but also drive engagement.

A core aspect of this role involves becoming an expert in our users' needs. This means gaining a profound understanding of diverse user behaviors, preferences, and pain points across various geographies, platforms (web, mobile, etc.), and audience segments. You'll leverage this expertise to inform your design decisions and ensure our solutions are truly user-centric.

Furthermore, you'll actively partner with design teams across the broader organization. By understanding their feature roadmaps and strategic objectives, you'll identify opportunities to deliver continuous and meaningful value to our users.

Key responsibilities:

This role requires a blend of creative problem-solving, strong leadership, and a proven ability to translate complex user needs into impactful design solutions.

• Lead the design of innovative experiences that drive simple, fluid conversations & journeys with generative AI on web & desktop.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, UX researchers, data scientists, and marketers, to define and execute IA models and interaction strategies. 
• Develop a deep expertise in user needs across various geographies, platforms, and audience segments, leveraging this understanding to inform all design decisions.
• Translate complex user insights into actionable design solutions that deliver measurable value to our customers, specifically embracing AI as a tool in your design process not just the end-product for which you are designing.
• Elevate design craft and champion user-centered design principles throughout the product development lifecycle.

About You

You are a pivotal and highly impactful Senior Designer, capable of independently driving major design initiatives for AI product experiences. You thrive in complex, rapidly changing environments, consistently delivering breakthrough design, learning to use emerging tools in your design process (e.g., vibe coding), and effectively aligning diverse stakeholders to achieve significant user value.

In order to set you up for success as a Senior Designer at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

• Strategic Impact & Product Thinking: Addresses highly complex design challenges for strategic, high-impact AI product initiatives, prioritizing user goals and business strategy.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment: Leads and influences cross-functional teams, ensuring design solutions prioritize user needs and product best interests. Recognized as a key influencer.
• Mastery of Design Craft & Execution: Delivers intuitive, system-aware, and polished design solutions through exceptional craft. Recognized as a "go-to" expert, sharing knowledge and elevating team skill.
• Adaptability: Thrives in complexity, continuously learning and adapting with a growth mindset. Evolves strategies and processes as needed.
• Fluency in AI product design process: Leverages AI expertise, data and user insights, to craft impactful design s