Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in English, Journalism, Media, Communications, HCI, or related field.
15 years of professional experience, or 13 years with an advanced degree
5 years of experience managing multi-disciplinary content teams, inclusive of content designers, UX writers, or conversational designers.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience leading the content strategy outlook and execution of large scale products with a focus on localization, usability, and accessibility best practices for global content platforms.
Experience using UX to influence strategic decision making, communicate strategic concepts, and facilitate understanding.
Experience translating ambiguous asks and directions into clear user centric approaches.
Experience fostering divergent design thinking and shepherding radical ideas that can truly evolve products.
Curiosity and excellent technical aptitude to understand the global product ecosystem and influence cross-functional stakeholders across and drive scalable content solutions.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. With recent advancements in AI, we’re making bigger leaps forward in improvements to Google, so it’s even easier for you to find just what you’re looking for and be inspired by what you see.Gemini UX’s charter is to create a personalized, intelligent, and helpful AI, on web and mobile, that’s seamlessly integrated across Google applications with multimodality. The Gemini UX team is made of dedicated and talented content designers, UI designers, researchers, UX engineers, and Program Managers who are passionate about creating the best possible experience for our users. We work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with team members across Search, Trust and Safety, Policy, Workspace, Android, and Responsible AI.As Principal Director, you will lead the UX/UI and Global Content Design teams working on Gemini. The team is responsible for all user-facing product content in the product, and for improving the model training and response quality for Global Gemini users. You will be an experienced leader with deep knowledge of content design, communication, and relationship building skills with the ability to translate user insights into product and feature development decisions.User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”The US base salary range for this full-time position is $253,000-$363,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .
Lead a team of AI model content designers and conversation designers who will partner with other key members of the UX and product team to drive strategy and deliver high quality content at scale.
Develop strategies for communicating user insights and scalable content solutions that build conviction and influence strategic decision making.
Drive our product content strategy, and identify and articulate opportunities for innovation.
Work with UX teams across Google who are integrating Gemini technology into their products to ensure consistency of voice, tone, and writing standards.
Communicate and advocate for best practices to executive partners to support the strategic priorities of Gemini.
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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.