Senior AI Interaction Designer (12 Month Contract)

Senior AI Interaction Designer (12 Month Contract)

Samsung Design Innovation Center (SDIC), located in San Francisco, is forming a small, nimble team to redefine the future of digital health. Working at the intersection of design, AI, and human experience, this team will explore how agentic and conversational AI can redefine future health and fitness experiences. The team will tackle complex and forward-looking design challenges to spark creativity, optimize concepts, and develop innovative new experiences for the near and mid-term future. We will collaborate closely with global partners to create impactful design directions by combining user insights, data, and advanced design approaches. This is a full-time, one-year contract role with the potential to extend or convert to a full-time position based on impact.

We are looking for talented designers to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design, from identifying unmet and latent needs, discovering new design opportunities, designing new product concepts to applying technology creatively to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences that re-imagine the way we interact with products.

SDIC is one of the leading design and innovation teams in Samsung. Our mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences, through beautiful yet functional design, enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies.

The studio is working on various advanced product experiences which can shape the future of Samsung Businesses, working with various internal teams through experience-driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, and other devices we can't describe yet.

Please note that this is for a 12 month contract, 5 days a week in-person at our office in San Francisco.

The Interaction Designer (AI) is responsible for creating beautiful, functional and desirable interfaces and experiences with a focus on AI-driven and agentic user experiences for Samsung's digital health offerings. You will need to understand how people use products (e.g. wearables, smartphone), and leading health apps and services to craft the desired user experience, with a focus on AI-rich, conversational, and context-aware interactions.

We are interested in passionate and self-motivated individuals who are comfortable in a highly fluid and exploratory environment. You will bring drive, smarts, and curiosity; we will provide the environment for you to thrive and grow while helping shape next-generation digital health experiences powered by AI.

Position Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize, visualize and develop ideas for products with an emphasis on future AI-driven health experiences
• Integrate AI with the lens of improving the user experience, leveraging various AI technologies including conversational and agentic systems
• Building ideas that turn complex and confusing systems into simple, intuitive and human-centered experiences
• Wireframing, conceptualizing, rapid prototyping, user-testing, interaction design, and visual design
• Collaboration! Work on products and features in close collaboration with other Designers and Engineers
• Crafting experiences that accomplish appropriately set goals, including proactive and personalized user outcomes
• Developing prototypes at varying fidelity levels to support iterative design needs throughout the project
• Knowing how to ask the right questions based on learning objectives and conducting user testing alone and/or with peers
• Extending beyond expectations to push ideas forward
• Travel International and Domestic and work overtime when needed

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree preferred in Design, HCI, Product Management, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 5+ years of UX Design with Project Management/Leadership, User experience/Interaction
• Experience and fluency in utilizing AI tools for research
• Adept at using AI tools for design and rough prototyping work
• Understand user behaviors and interactions of products and services and create compelling product solutions based on their behaviors
• Experience working on a range of products from hardware/software, mobile, voice interfaces, etc.
• Strong HCI (human-computer interaction) skills and strong user research appetite
• Strong understanding of design thinking, design principles, and experience design methodologies and their applications
• Design hypothesis development, prototyping & testing, sketching & visualizing bold ideas and user scenarios
• Identify new opportunities and business value for UX innovation and differentiation with technology enablers
• Pitching and communicating the UX/UI concept to stakeholders
• Documentation creation: Scenarios, Wireframes, Visual Design, low & high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes
• Be clear, concise, have transparent communication style, self-starter, and open to starting a project, idea, concept from scratch

We will consider qualified applicants for employment with arrest and conviction records.

Our total rewards programs are designed to motivate and engage exceptional talent. The base pay range for roles at this level is listed below, but may be higher or lower in other states due to geographic differentials in the labor market. Within the base pay range, individual rates depend on a number of factors—including the role's function and location as well as the individual's knowledge, skills, experience, education and training. This is part of our comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility and generous benefits to help you live life well.

Base Pay Range

$158,800 - $218,100 USD