AI UX Designer System Lead, XR

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product design or UX.
• Experience in consumer-facing product design with AI/ML products.
• A portfolio of work samples showcasing design for AI-powered systems and multimodal interaction (linked in your resume and accessible).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with agentic workflows, synthetic research, and generative UI frameworks for spatial computing.
• Experience designing for wearable form factors and heads-up multimodal orchestration.
• Experience working cross-functionally across organizational boundaries to mitigate technical constraints and prioritize opportunities.
• Storyteller expertise with the ability to articulate complex AI design visions to executive leadership.
• Proven track record of influencing product viability and Return on Investment (ROI) for long-term AI investments.

About the job

In this role, you will lead Gemini’s integration into Google’s XR platform. You will define how intelligent, multimodal assistance manifests on XR devices, serve as a vital UX bridge between XR and DeepMind organizations. You will transform breakthrough AI foundation models into seamless, intuitive experiences that leverage the unique capabilities of XR form factors.

As a part of this role, you will bring together deep systems-level interaction architecture, technical fluency, and design craft. You will drive core Gemini interaction primitives and end-to-end user journeys across the XR platform such as responsive mic and camera behaviors, intelligent cross-device handoffs, polished audio feedback, and natural onboarding experiences that seamlessly unlock the power of next-generation technology.

As a part of this team, the ideal applicant will thrive in complex, ambiguous environments, unify cross-functional teams around a clear UX goal, and are driven to execute and deliver refined, groundbreaking experiences.For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by

breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where

lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead XR AI experiences from ambiguous, early-stage research concepts, to iterative prototyping, platform validation, and production launch.
• Design cohesive mental models and scalable interaction primitives that govern Gemini’s presence across XR hardware.
• Define seamless end-to-end user journeys that span mobile, wearables, and XR devices, and build natural onboarding and user education frameworks that intuitively teach users how to interact with AI in XR contexts.
• Serve as a UX bridge across DeepMind and XR, and unite cross-functional product, research, and engineering stakeholders across organizations around a unified design goal and shared experience principles.
• Build interactive prototypes to pressure-test concepts in collaboration with engineering, and partner deeply within engineering workflows to ensure design fidelity translates into shippable software, upholding impeccable interaction craft through to final launch.