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Staff UX Lead – Gemini Connected Apps

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Mountain View • California • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $189,000 - $280,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead the UX strategy and interaction design for Gemini's Connected Apps, defining how users delegate life tasks so they can focus on what matters most.
  • Create unparalleled, low-friction experiences that weave together user information across Google products and third-party services, while designing granular, easy-to-understand controls to maintain user trust.
  • Deeply understand what users think, feel, and want, using that empathy to obsess over every pixel, obliterate latency, and ensure users feel efficient, capable, and delighted.
  • Embrace a "demos over decks" philosophy, translating abstract AI capabilities into testable prototypes to drive rapid experimentation and hypothesis-driven learning.
  • Apply deep systems thinking to create interfaces that gracefully handle the non-deterministic nature of AI, ensuring user trust, transparency, and control.
  • Utilize modern motion and prototyping tools (Rive, LottieLab, Spline) alongside Vibe Coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity) to rapidly build, test, and iterate on complex interactive experiences.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of UX/UI design experience for complex, consumer-facing software across diverse platforms (web, desktop, mobile)
  • A robust portfolio showcasing fluency in visual, motion, and interaction design, with clear evidence of content-first thinking that goes beyond beautiful pixels to solve end-to-end user journeys.
  • High proficiency in modern design tools (Figma) and AI-assisted workflow/prototyping tools (Cursor, Antigravity, Claude Code, etc.).
  • Demonstrated expertise acting as a force multiplier—guiding cross-functional teams (Engineering, PM, Research) through the zero-to-one lifecycle.
  • Strong capability to balance data-driven design with navigating ambiguity, alongside a passion for building ethical, accessible, and user-centered AI solutions.
  • Entrepreneurial / Self-Starter: High role fluidity and a builder's mindset; a natural tinkerer who is intrinsically motivated to experiment with new technologies and ship zero-to-one ideas
  • Expertise in prototyping complex, interactive, and multi-modal experiences using front-end development technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) or advanced Vibe Coding.
  • Proven experience shepherding radical ideas and complex AI concepts into truly transformative, user-centered product visions.
  • Experience driving product impact through close collaboration with user research, including expertise in methodologies specifically designed for evaluating non-deterministic AI products.
  • Experience mentoring more junior teammates and elevating team craft (note: this is a non-managerial role).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designUI designinteraction designprototypingfront-end developmentHTMLCSSJavaScriptAI-assisted workflowcontent-first thinking
Soft Skills
empathydata-driven designnavigating ambiguityentrepreneurial mindsetself-startercollaborationmentoringguiding cross-functional teamsbuilding ethical solutionsuser-centered design