UX Designer, Human-Computer Interaction

About the job

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

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

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

US: $189,000 - $274,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Understand UX excellence and surface both new and existing UX patterns within the AIUX repertoire.
• Design targeted experiments around core themes and upcoming technical capabilities. Translate patterns from experiments to help turn them into transitionable pattern technology.
• Ground your interactive designs in deep human factors understanding, drawing inspiration from field user research and our existing AIUX corpus. Aim to produce generalizable interactions that establish measurably better interaction paradigms.
• Collaborate closely with engineering partners (such as Full Stack or Platform Software Engineers) who will build reliable technical proofs of concepts based on your creative ideas.
• Help drive breakthrough experiences by designing for hero products and high-impact launches. Contribute to the lab's creation of intellectual property, including defensible patents and proprietary methodologies.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience with user-centered design, usability principles, human factors, and field user research.
• Experience with machine learning capabilities and limitations, and designing human-AI collaboration workflows.
• Experience communicating user experiences using wireframes, storyboards, or interactive prototypes, and collaborating with engineering teams to translate designs into UI components or design systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, cross-functional organization.
• 4 years of experience leading design projects.
• 3 years of experience working with executive leaders.
• Experience in evaluating complex spaces to surface and define both new and existing interaction patterns within an AIUX repertoire.