Staff UX Program Manager, GeminiApp, DeepMind

About the Job

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and refine the repeatable processes and frameworks that enable our UX team to deliver bold, high-quality work at lightning speed.
• Serve as the central point of contact for UX, orchestrating alignment on priorities, roadmaps, and resource allocation with key partners in Product, Engineering, Research, and Trust & Safety.
• Partner with UX discipline leads to forecast, plan, and allocate team capacity, ensuring we are always focused on the most critical user and business goals.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in our processes, tools, and cross-functional communication, empowering the team to focus on impactful design and research.
• Foster a positive, collaborative, and team culture through well-planned strategic off-sites, workshops, and communication initiatives.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in program management within a UX, design, or product development organization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in environments focused on AI, machine learning, or other emerging technologies.
• Deep experience working directly with and understanding the needs of UX disciplines (e.g., interaction design, UX research, content strategy, UX engineering).
• Excellence of resource planning, and project and data management, with an ability to turn insights into actionable strategies.
• Track record of building and scaling UX operations in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly evolving environment (such as a startup or a v1 product).