Staff AI Interaction Designer

Spring Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision benefits

401(k) match

Professional development reimbursement

Parental leave

Fertility care support

Donor matching

Job summary

Spring Health is seeking an AI Interaction Designer in New York City to craft empathetic, clinically valid AI experiences for end-users. You will lead conversation design across web and mobile, shape intent architecture, and collaborate with clinical and engineering teams to drive meaningful behavior change.

This role combines design leadership with hands-on prototyping in a hybrid NYC setting. The position emphasizes strong communication, a portfolio in human-AI interaction, and a track record

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX/Product Design experience with 1–2 years in AI-driven products.
• Strong portfolio showing complex human-AI interaction design.
• Deep understanding of LLM capabilities and constraints.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and testing methodologies.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Design the human-AI interaction for Spring Health's user-facing AI agents across web and mobile.
• Own the intent architecture end-to-end and drive release rigor for AI experiences.
• Write, test, and optimize system prompts and UX copy to support users in distress.
• Collaborate with Clinical and Product teams to ensure clinically valid behavior change.
• Define conversational parameters and handle edge cases and hallucinations.
• Work with engineers to implement prompt versioning and evaluate quality.
• Design and prototype chat interfaces, latency considerations, and onboarding.
• Present conversational architecture and AI performance to executives.

Skills

UX/Product Design

AI-driven products

Prompt engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Portfolio showcase

AI safety & hallucination awareness

Tools

Figma

Design Systems

Job description

Our mission: eliminating every barrier to mental health.

Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage.

Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners.

As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.

The mission of the AI Interaction Designer is to create an empathetic, clinically valid, and effortless AI experience for our end-users. This includes designing the parameters, tone, and interaction flows for our user-facing AI agents to drive meaningful behavior change and internal motivation.

Reporting to our Senior Manager, Product Design, you will be part of the Design Systems team, and partner closely with clinical and engineering teams to execute our AI product roadmap through best-in-class conversation design, rigorous evaluation, and continuous iteration.

Please note that this is a hybrid role based in New York City, with an expectation to be in the office 2-3 days per week at our 60 Madison Avenue location. Candidates must be based in the NYC metro area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of their start date. Occasional travel will be required for team on-sites.

What You’ll Do

• Design the human-AI interaction experience for Spring Health's user-facing AI agents across web and mobile platforms.
• Own the intent architecture end-to-end (taxonomy, routing, and gap analysis) and drive release rigor for AI experiences, including versioning, staged rollouts, and regression testing.
• Write, test, and optimize system prompts and exceptional UX copy. You will craft language that makes users in moments of distress feel seen, heard, and important - motivating and uplifting them without ever being dismissive of their challenges.
• Partner deeply with Clinical and Product teams to ensure AI interactions drive clinically valid behavior change, focusing on internal motivation.
• Define conversational parameters and graceful error handling for edge cases, hallucinations, or ambiguous user intent.
• Collaborate with engineers to implement prompt versioning and evaluate conversational quality using testing frameworks.
• Design and prototype chat interfaces, considering latency, tool calling UI, and user onboarding within our core design system.
• Act as a strategic design leader, regularly presenting conversational architecture, AI performance insights, and product vision to executives and extended leadership teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Optimize AI interaction resolution rates and reduce the necessity for human fallback through refined conversational flows.
• Maintain exceptionally high member satisfaction scores specifically for AI-driven conversational experiences.
• Successfully define and integrate reusable AI interaction patterns into the design system within the first 6 months.
• Reduce AI hallucination/off-brand response rates based on internal quality evaluations.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in UX/Product Design, with at least 1-2 years focused on AI-driven products, LLMs, or conversational agents.
• Deep intellectual curiosity and a drive to tinker. You don't treat AI as a novelty-you actively use it as a collaborator to think better and accelerate your own workflows.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating complex human-AI interaction design, underlying logic, and user flows.
• Deep understanding of LLM capabilities and constraints (e.g., context windows, streaming).
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and testing methodologies.
• A passion for incorporating user insights into evals and other metrics to improve conversational quality.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with engineering and clinical experts.
• Top-notch communication and executive presence. You excel at cross-functional collaboration and can articulate complex AI and design concepts clearly to organizational leadership.

Nice To Have

• Experience integrating AI patterns into existing design systems (e.g., Figma).
• Experience integrating AI UX eval methods into spec-driven agentic workflows
• Experience in the benefits or mental health space.

The target base salary range for this position is $182,000 - $242,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including equity and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Benefits Provided By Spring Health

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to One Medical accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.
• We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.
• At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Access to Noom, a weight management program-based in psychology, that’s tailored to your unique needs and goals.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.
• Access to Wellhub, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription
• Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.

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Spring Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Spring Health is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.