Senior Staff UX Design Manager, Gmail

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 be responsible for guiding the careers of your direct reports, helping 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. You will collaborate closely with Engineering and Product Management leaders to align business goals with design innovation, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and execution.

Gmail connects billions of people globally, serving as the ultimate daily destination for managing life and work. We are making AI a true partner by integrating Gemini into the heart of the inbox helping users prioritize, summarize, search, and take action to reach their goals faster. In this role, the UX Manager will shape key parts of Gmail’s AI portfolio. You will collaborate with UX Leads to ensure a cohesive journey, evolving classic interfaces, designing new AI-driven surfaces, and expanding Gmail's capabilities to headless, agentic environments.

AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products— Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.

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

US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and execution of an agentic Gmail, utilizing emerging AI trends and user insights to reimagine legacy workflows into an innovative, cohesive user experience.
• Manage a talented group of designers while actively shaping the 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, successfully driving outcomes from minimum lovable products through to general availability.

Minimum qualifications:

• 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 people or teams.
  
• 3 years of work experience working 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 (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• 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, as well as prototyping with AI, web or mobile based technologies.
  
• Strong core interaction design skills, knowledge of user-centric design methodologies. Experience simplifying complexity through design. Proficient 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 as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile.
  

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 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