AI Product Designer, Gemini App UX

Design intuitive AI experiences for Gemini, Google DeepMind's conversational AI assistant, across diverse platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect intuitive AI experiences: Lead the design of user interfaces and consumer experiences for Gemini across diverse platforms and modalities, ensuring natural and efficient interaction.
• Key contributor to product strategy: Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define product strategy and influence key cross-functional decisions that drive positive user outcomes.
• Innovate through user-centered design: Translate user needs, technical understanding and business requirements into groundbreaking design solutions that amplify people’s capabilities and enrich their lives.
• Design with systems-thinking approach: Apply a systems-thinking approach to design user interfaces, understanding the impact of individual components and features on the overall AI-powered experience, optimized for AI's probabilistic nature and multimodal capabilities.
• Craft visually compelling interfaces: Create high-fidelity visual designs, encompassing layouts, typography, color palettes, and iconography, that are aesthetically pleasing and highly usable.
• Motion and interaction design: Design engaging interactions and fluid interfaces, utilizing tools like Origami Studio, Principle, and Protopie, and create motion designs that enhance user experience and effectively communicate complex information.
• Bridge design and technology: Leverage technical understanding to use system instructions and diverse prototyping methods, simulating model responses to inform design requirements and approaches.
• Champion design innovation: Stay current on the latest design trends and technologies, in consumer technology, generative AI and natural language processing, and leverage this knowledge to innovate.
• Design for ethical and societal impact: Consider the intricate interplay of AI models, user interface, ethical considerations, and societal impacts to develop responsible solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience designing user interfaces for complex software applications, with specific experience designing for conversational AI / LLMs
• A robust portfolio showcasing fluency in visual, motion, and interaction design skills, with specific examples of work specific to AI-powered interfaces and interactions and for leading consumer applications.
• Proficiency in designing user-centric experiences across diverse platforms (web, desktop, mobile), with a strong understanding of how to adapt AI interactions to different device contexts.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing intuitive and engaging interactions for AI-driven products
• Demonstrated expertise in guiding cross-functional teams through ideation, validation, and iteration processes, transforming abstract ideas into shippable product
• Familiarity with behavioral data and strong capability to create data-driven designs, while being equally capable of moving forward in the absence of data.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and Principle.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to listen, articulate positions, and challenge partners with new product design thinking
• Mastery in presentation and storytelling capabilities with the ability to communicate effectively to leadership and cross company teams
• A strong systems thinker with a passion for creating innovative and user-centered AI design solutions.
• Ability to understand the broader implications of AI technologies and design experiences that are ethical, accessible, and impactful.
• Demonstrated experience thriving in a startup environment, comfortable with the ambiguity, rapid iteration, and resourcefulness required to deliver impactful designs in a fast-paced, evolving landscape.

Key Skills

• Fluency in visual, motion, and interaction design skills
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and Principle
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Mastery in presentation and storytelling capabilities
• Strong systems thinking
• Ability to understand the broader implications of AI technologies
• Experience thriving in a startup environment