Senior Designer, Conversational AI - Remote

As a Senior Conversational AI Designer within Optum’s Enterprise Digital Product Office, you will serve as the primary design expert collaborating with product and engineering teams to craft exceptional conversational experiences. You’ll leverage your expertise to anticipate customer needs and intents while proactively developing intuitive dialogue strategies that feel natural and seamless.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Dialogue Design Excellence: Create conversational flows that anticipate user goals, craft multi-turn interactions handling various user intents and edge cases and develop responses that feel human, clear and aligned with brand voice
• AI Prompt Engineering: Craft, test and iterate prompts that elicit high-quality responses from LLMs across diverse use cases, influencing system instructions with precise engineering requirements to guide AI behavior in context-aware, multi-turn interactions
• Responsive Interaction Design: Develop error handling and recovery strategies that gracefully manage AI misunderstandings while maintaining user trust and experience quality
• Multimodal Experience Integration: Design seamless experiences that thoughtfully integrate voice, visual and text elements to enhance user engagement and support solutions
• Analytics-Driven Optimization: Utilize conversation data to identify enhancement opportunities, refine flows and measurably improve business metrics
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as design subject matter expert for product and engineering teams to ensure cohesive implementation of user experiences
• NLU Curation: Partner with engineering teams on interaction modeling and NLU curation to define and enhance model performance
• Ethical & Inclusive Design: Ensure conversations are accessible to diverse audiences while addressing privacy concerns, minimizing bias and maintaining transparency in AI interactions

Your work will directly impact the members we serve by delivering AI-powered designs that meet the highest standards of accessibility, health literacy and conversational design best practices.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing highly complex chat and voice conversational experiences OR working with a writing discipline or digital product team
• 1+ years of hands-on experience designing innovative conversational AI solutions
• Proven knowledge of LLMs, bot platforms and prompt engineering best practices
• Proven adept at crafting conversations and logic that align to the strategy while following voice, tone and brand standards
• Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering, product and business stakeholders to translate insights into conversational solutions
• Proven record of displaying ownership through problem solving and decision-making skills
• Proven digital portfolio or work samples of relevant AI/conversational projects

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together., At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.