Senior Staff UX Researcher (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Staff UX Researcher (AI): Defining the future of AI interaction for the Gemini App, focusing on establishing mental models, interaction standards, and scalable frameworks for Generative AI. Focus on inventing rigorous methodologies to quantify complex user needs, driving product impact through strong partnership with leadership, and influencing the product roadmap at executive levels.

Location: Mountain View, San Francisco, or Seattle, US

Salary: $224,000–$315,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits

Company

hirify.global is a team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts working to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery.

What you will do

• Serve as the strategic anchor for Response Quality for the Gemini App, defining fundamental interface logic.
• Establish insights and principles to bridge the gap between model intelligence and interaction standards.
• Lead insights into high-priority investment areas, inventing rigorous methodologies to quantify complex user needs.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Research Science, and Design leadership to translate research into actionable product insights.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to translate user needs into scalable frameworks, guiding technical investment towards durable components.
• Act as an institutional authority on Human-AI interaction, influencing the roadmap at VP/SVP level and shaping organizational strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in User Experience Research with a track record of driving strategic product direction.
• Expertise in Mixed Methods, seamlessly moving between qualitative depth (diary studies, interviews) and quantitative rigor (large-scale logs analysis, metrics definition).
• Experience defining Platform/System Strategy, creating frameworks that scale across multiple product verticals rather than shipping isolated features.
• Must work from Mountain View, San Francisco, or Seattle, US.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in a related field.
• Demonstrated experience working on AI-powered products (e.g., large language models, conversational AI, generative AI).
• Ability to "speak the language" of Engineering to influence model training, RLHF pipelines, or UI framework implementation.
• Proven ability to define the 1-2 year vision for a product category and align conflicting stakeholders around a shared user truth.

Culture & Benefits

• Value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives to create extraordinary impact.
• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status.
• Offers bonus, equity, and benefits.
• Provides accommodations for disabilities or additional needs.