LEAD CONVERSATIONAL DESIGNER

interface.ai
Full-time
San Jose/ San Francisco Bay Area
$150,000 - $200,000
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

As a Lead Conversational Designer, you will set the vision and strategy for conversational experiences across our client portfolio, directing a team of designers and collaborating closely with product, engineering, and customer success.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and champion conversation‑design standards, frameworks, and style guides
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of conversational designers
  • Drive the end‑to‑end design process for high‑impact client engagements
  • Translate complex business requirements and data insights into user‑centric conversational experiences
  • Oversee conversation CMS and tooling strategy
  • Partner with Product Management to influence the roadmap
  • Serve as executive‑level design consultant for strategic accounts
  • Ensure all conversational solutions adhere to U.S. banking regulations and industry security standards
  • Foster a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement
  • Direct conversation architecture for the company’s most complex, multi-channel AI deployments
  • Manage resource allocation and project prioritization for a team of designers
  • Define and refine LLM prompt strategies
  • Collaborate with integration teams to design secure, end‑to‑end flows
  • Own design review rituals, quality‑assurance checkpoints, and post‑launch optimization sprints

Requirements

  • 7+ years designing conversational experiences
  • 3+ years leading design teams or complex programs in SaaS, FinTech, or other regulated industries
  • Deep expertise in conversation‑design principles, UX writing, multimodal interaction, and information architecture
  • Proven mastery of NLU/NLP platforms, annotation processes, and LLM prompt engineering
  • Familiarity with analytics tools and SQL/BI dashboards
  • Demonstrated success influencing executive stakeholders
  • Strong knowledge of banking workflows, payments, security, and regulatory constraints
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and facilitation skills
  • A growth mindset, high accountability, and a passion for mentoring
  • Skill in using prompt engineering techniques

Benefits

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