Collaborative AI Interactions Designer

Circle Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay and equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Access to frontier AI Engines

Job summary

Circle Labs in San Francisco seeks a designer to shape how shapes participate in conversation and work with people. You will focus on the behavior of collaborative AI, ensuring responses stay aligned with user intent and keep control in user hands.

You’ll prototype interaction patterns, evaluate edge cases, and collaborate with product designers, researchers, and engineers to ship intuitive agents that help groups set goals, delegate tasks, and track progress together.

Qualifications

• Examples of conversational or AI interaction work showing intended behavior, tests, and results.
• Strong writing and conversation design skills, including explaining complex actions and uncertainty.
• Hands-on experience prototyping with AI Engines and understanding how context, instructions, and tools affect behavior.
• Ability to turn subjective feedback into clear examples, evaluation criteria, and useful comparisons.
• Comfort collaborating with designers, engineers, and researchers across conversations.

Responsibilities

• Prototype how shapes participate in conversations with multiple people and other shapes, tracking who spoke and when.
• Prototype how shapes delegate to specialist shapes and external agents, including handoffs and progress.
• Build working prototypes with prompts, conversation examples, and lightweight code for real AI Engines.
• Create evaluation scenarios for conflicting requests, permissions, changing plans, lost context, and incomplete results.
• Review interaction failures with researchers and engineers, distinguishing interface from behavior problems.
• Partner with product designers to align interface and a shape's responses, then evaluate the experience after shipping.

Skills

Conversational AI design

Strong writing

AI prototyping

Context handling

Feedback to test cases

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Python

JavaScript

Job description

Circle Labs in San Francisco seeks a designer to shape how shapes participate in conversation and work with people. You will focus on the behavior of collaborative AI, ensuring responses stay aligned with user intent and keep control in user hands.

You’ll prototype interaction patterns, evaluate edge cases, and collaborate with product designers, researchers, and engineers to ship intuitive agents that help groups set goals, delegate tasks, and track progress together.