# Staff AI Product Designer, Gemini Universal Assistant, GeminiApp

**Company**: Google DeepMind
**Location**: Mountain View, California, US; New York City, New York, US; San Francisco, California, US; Seattle, Washington, US
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,000 USD - $265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15733006

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/7729786
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## Description

We're hiring an experienced Staff AI Product Designer to play a critical role in driving the technical and product vision for priority users of Gemini, with a specific focus on small businesses.\n\nAs a key technical and design leader, you will work hand-in-hand with engineers, research scientists, and product managers to build transformative 0-to-1 solutions. You will play a crucial role in shaping how Small Businesses communicate, operate, and scale using generative AI.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n\n* Drive big product vision & build from the ground up: Lead the technical and design vision for Gemini’s Small Business experiences, designing and building foundational, 0-to-1 features and capabilities entirely from scratch.\n\n* Define business & response strategy: Develop business strategies, communication frameworks, system instructions, and rubrics specifically designed to improve model response quality and relevance for use cases.\n\n* Architect intuitive AI experiences: Lead the design of user interfaces and consumer experiences for Gemini across diverse platforms, ensuring natural, efficient, and deeply helpful multimodal interactions.\n\n* Shape LLM behavior: Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and other teams to define user-centered quality standards, establish evaluation methods, and directly shape the behavior and responses of underlying LLM models.\n\n* Design with a systems-thinking approach: Apply a macro-level systems-thinking approach to design, understanding the impact of individual components on the overall AI-powered experience, optimized for AI's probabilistic nature.\n\n* Craft visually compelling & fluid interfaces: Create high-fidelity visual designs, layouts, and engaging motion/interaction designs that make complex, AI-driven information highly accessible and aesthetically pleasing.\n\n* Bridge design and technology: Leverage deep technical understanding to write system instructions and utilize diverse prototyping methods, simulating model responses to inform design requirements and engineering approaches.\n\n* Champion innovation & ethical design: Stay at the forefront of generative AI advancements, considering the intricate interplay of AI models, UI, user safety, and societal impact to develop responsible, user-centered solutions.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n* 10+ years of experience designing user interfaces and shaping content/responses for complex software applications, with specific experience designing for conversational AI / LLMs.\n\n* A robust portfolio showcasing fluency in visual, motion, and interaction design, alongside examples of content/product strategy and 0-to-1 AI-powered product builds.\n\n* Experience designing tools, communication platforms, or product experiences specifically tailored for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs).\n\n* Demonstrated expertise in driving big product vision and guiding cross-functional teams (Engineering, PM, Research) through ideation, validation, and iteration.\n\n* Strong systems thinker capable of moving seamlessly between deep technical model evaluation and high-level UX/UI design.\n\n* Demonstrated experience thriving in a startup environment, comfortable with the ambiguity, rapid iteration, and resourcefulness required to build from the ground up.\n\n* Excellent communication and storytelling capabilities, with the ability to articulate complex technical and design positions to leadership and cross-company teams.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n* Experience training, tuning, and evaluating large language models or other generative AI technologies.\n\n* Proven experience in shepherding radical ideas that leverage AI to create truly transformative product experiences.\n\n* Experience gathering and working with data to identify loss patterns in model output and create actionable insights.\n\n* Experience prototyping interactive experiences using tools like Figma, ProtoPie, or Framer.\n\n* Experience "vibe-coding" or rapidly prototyping with tools like AI Studio, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, or similar AI-assisted development environments.\n\n* Experience with front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Swift, Jetpack Compose) and coding tools (CLIs, IDEs).\n\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is between $178,000 USD - $265,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- conversational AI
- LLMs
- user interface design
- content strategy
- product strategy
- cross-functional team management
- systems thinking
- UX/UI design
- prototyping
- front-end development
- coding

### Nice to have
- large language model training
- tuning and evaluation
- radical idea generation
- data analysis
- interactive experience prototyping
- AI-assisted development environments