Staff UX Designer, Gmail AI

About the Job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our Interaction Designers transform complex tasks into intuitive, easy-to-use experiences for billions of people. From creating user flows and wireframes to building mockups and prototypes, you will envision and bring product experiences to life with an inspired, refined, and magical feel. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, leveraging user insights to create industry-leading products.

As an Interaction Designer, you'll apply user-centered design methods to craft industry-leading user experiences from concept to execution, working with design partners to evolve the Google design language to build beautiful, innovative products.

Gmail connects billions of people globally, helping them coordinate their lives and close major business agreements. We are on a mission to ensure every user has a safe, reliable, and intelligent inbox experience. Since so much of life flows through email, we have made Gemini a true partner in Gmail—organizing, summarizing, and extracting action items to help people reach their goals faster.

As a Staff UX Designer, you will shape Gmail’s new AI Inbox surface, collaborating closely with teams across Gmail. To succeed in this highly ambiguous space, you should be comfortable prototyping and exploring how our models output content, translating complex AI behaviors into elegant, intuitive, and cohesive user journeys.

AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products— Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Closely partner with fellow Gmail UXDs and Gmail’s cross-functional partners, shaping and bringing strong, opinionated, and principled user and UX craft POV to your prototypes and design work.
• Inspire your peers with your prototypes, design craft, and end-to-end thinking - to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas and clearly explain the rationale for design decisions to cross-functional peers.
• Maintain a strong understanding of user insights and emerging trends in productivity, communication, and AI to continue to evolve the product offering and user experience at high velocity and in fast changing technical and user adoption landscape.
• Deliver over a high bar for design craft and deliver outcomes for the product portfolio by shipping Machine Learning Platforms (MLPs) for Dogfood (DF) and Google Analytics (GA).

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience with interaction design.
• 3 years of experience with Generative AI.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using AI and agentic tools to craft and model visionary product experiences.
• Experience fostering divergent design thinking and shepherding radical ideas that can truly evolve products.
• Experience pushing past legacy product boundaries.
• Experience partnering with UXR to amplify research and bring impact to the product.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate positions, and challenge partners with new product design thinking.