Google

Director, UX, Search Model Behavior

San Francisco, CA, USA · Director

Sponsorship not specified$275k-$383kDetected 9 hours ago

Machine LearningUX ResearchAccessibilityResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

- Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Media, Communications, HCI, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience managing multi-disciplinary design and technical interaction teams.

Partner directly with ML/Engineering leadership to embed UX principles into the model development lifecycle.
Own/scale overarching voice, tone, and behavioral policies of Search AI. Develop constitutional guidelines and conversational frameworks that dictate how the model responds to complex, ambiguous, or sensitive queries.
Lead a multidisciplinary team of UI Designers, UX Researchers, Model Behavior Specialists, and Program Managers. Foster a collaborative culture that operates at the intersection of design, linguistics, artificial intelligence.

Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Media, Communications, HCI, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of experience managing multi-disciplinary design and technical interaction teams.
Experience managing teams of integrated content specialists.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
You will be responsible for shaping how users interact with our most advanced conversational agents and generative features-specifically defining the UX and behavioral heuristics for AI Overviews and AI Mode.
In this role, you will define the Search Model Behavior strategy, establishing the foundational frameworks for model persona, conversational architecture, and interaction principles.
You will translate qualitative user needs into quantitative technical signals, ensuring that our AI experiences are helpful, safe, and deeply aligned with user intent.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere.
To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on.
In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Define what "great" looks like across all AI surfaces.

Influence technical architecture by translating UX research into actionable protocols for model training, system prompting, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).

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