Senior Staff UX Design Manager, Gmail

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28‑30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

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.

When applying, you may indicate a preferred working location from the following:
Sunnyvale, CA;
Seattle, WA;
San Francisco, CA
.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product design or UX.
• 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing teams.
• 3 years of work experience collaborating with executive leaders.
• 2 years of experience designing and shipping user experiences for Generative AI products.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume.

• Master's degree in Design, Human–Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience working in a complex, cross‑functional organization.
• Experience working with component‑based design systems and prototyping with AI, web or mobile technologies.
• Strong interaction‑design skills, knowledge of user‑centric design methodologies, and proficiency with industry‑standard design and prototyping tools.
• Strong grasp of emerging AI technology and trends in productivity.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations across desktop and mobile platforms.

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Design Manager, you will drive this vision by defining product strategy, mitigating complexity, and conceptualizing ecosystem‑level UX. You are a systems‑level thinker and a fierce advocate for both your users and your team.

You will guide the careers of your direct reports, help them realize their full potential while fostering a culture of forward‑thinking design. With a practiced eye for quality, you will transform complex workflows into elegantly simple experiences and collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation.

Gmail connects billions of people globally and is integrating Gemini into the inbox to help users prioritize, summarize, search, and take action. In this role, you will shape key aspects of Gmail’s AI portfolio, working with UX Leads to evolve interfaces, design new AI‑driven surfaces, and expand capabilities into headless, agentic environments. You will also collaborate with model builders (Google Deep Mind) and impact billions of users worldwide.

US: $236,000 – $330,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Drive strategy and execution of agentic Gmail, leveraging AI trends and user insights to reimagine legacy workflows into an innovative, cohesive UX.
• Manage a talented group of designers, shaping culture, operations, and identity of the broader Gmail UX organization to foster innovation, collaboration, and grit.
• Collaborate closely with UX and cross‑functional leads across Gmail and Google Workspace, bringing a strong, principled design point of view to decision‑making for 3+ billion global users.
• Guide the team in developing positioning frameworks, user journeys, prototypes, and end‑to‑end specs, clearly communicating design concepts and rationale to cross‑functional peers.
• Uphold an uncompromising bar for design quality across desktop and mobile surfaces, driving outcomes from minimum lovable products to general availability.

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