Senior Manager, UX Content Design, GeminiApp, DeepMind

Google DeepMind; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 214,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 25% target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google DeepMind is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the content design team for the Gemini app, combining writing excellence with strategic leadership to uncover top user needs and drive growth across global user bases.

You will collaborate with product designers, managers, engineers, researchers, data scientists, and marketers to ideate, design, and implement solutions that enhance the user journey and business metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience on user-focused product writing including work in hardware, software, digital agency, or other relevant product areas.
• 5 years of experience in people or team management, including coaching, performance management, and continued development.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach a team of AI-native content designers, translating user needs into clear design solutions.
• Shape ambiguous product problems into innovative experiences driving feature discovery within the Gemini App.
• Elevate content design craft and advocate user-centered design across the product life cycle.
• Evolve content design and UX writing for multi-modal interfaces, leveraging AI to scale guidelines and systems.

Skills

Team management

Content design leadership

UX writing

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree (English, Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, UX, HCI)

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, UX, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience on user-focused product writing including work in hardware, software, digital agency, or other relevant product areas.
• 5 years of experience in people or team management, including coaching, performance management, and continued development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing information architecture for complex product suites.
• Experience working on non-standard platforms with emerging interaction modalities such as voice-driven or platform.
• Ability to care deeply about user journeys and details of experience flows that can span across modalities (from voice only to visual only).

About the job

We’re hiring a Senior Manager to lead the content design team. This role requires high taste, creativity, and the ability to uncover top user needs and pain points. The role also requires excellent writing skills and high judgement in order to define what good quality looks like.

As the Content Design lead, you’ll play a critical role in building new experiences for the Gemini app that are both helpful and delightful for global Gemini users. You'll operate as a strategic partner across the Gemini team, collaborating cross-functionally with product designers, product managers, engineers, UX researchers, data scientists, and marketers. Together, you'll ideate, design, and implement solutions that not only enhance the user journey but also drive key growth metrics.

A core aspect of this role involves becoming an expert in our users' needs. This means gaining a profound understanding of various user behaviors, preferences, and pain points across various geographies, platforms (web, mobile, etc.), and audience segments. You'll leverage this expertise to inform your design decisions and ensure our solutions are truly user‑centric.

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 various 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: $214000 - $298000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Responsibilities

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• Manage and coach a team of AI-native content designers. It will also require blending creative problem-solving, excellent writing craft, strong leadership, and a proven ability to translate user needs into design solutions that bring clarity and delight to Gemini's global user base.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous product problems and shape them into innovative experiences that drive feature discovery and engagement within the Gemini App.
• Elevate content design craft and advocate user-centered design principles throughout the product development life‑cycle.
• Evolve and execute on our goal for content design and UX writing in a multi-modal world, including leveraging AI to scale content design guidelines, systems, and frameworks.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .