What are the responsibilities and job description for the Conversation Designer position at Hippocratic AI?
About Us
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health.
Why Join Our Team
We value in-person teamwork and believe the best ideas happen together. Our team is expected to be in the office five days a week in Palo Alto, CA unless explicitly noted otherwise in the job description.
About The Role
As a Conversation Designer at Hippocratic AI, you will design, prototype, and refine user-centric conversational flows for LLM-driven healthcare AI applications. You’ll collaborate closely with clinicians, researchers, engineers, and product teams to ensure that all AI interactions are natural, empathetic, and effective across a variety of usability contexts, including patient intake, follow-up instructions, and clinical guidance. Your work will directly influence the safety, clarity, and success of AI interactions in real-world healthcare settings.
Responsibilities
Hippocratic AI has developed a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health.
Why Join Our Team
- Innovative mission: We are creating a safe, healthcare-focused LLM that can transform health outcomes on a global scale.
- Visionary leadership: Hippocratic AI was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah alongside physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and AI researchers from top institutions including El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA.
- Strategic investors: We have raised a total of $278 million in funding, backed by top investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Premji Invest, SV Angel, and six health systems.
- Team and expertise: We are working with top experts in healthcare and artificial intelligence to ensure the safety and efficacy of our technology.
We value in-person teamwork and believe the best ideas happen together. Our team is expected to be in the office five days a week in Palo Alto, CA unless explicitly noted otherwise in the job description.
About The Role
As a Conversation Designer at Hippocratic AI, you will design, prototype, and refine user-centric conversational flows for LLM-driven healthcare AI applications. You’ll collaborate closely with clinicians, researchers, engineers, and product teams to ensure that all AI interactions are natural, empathetic, and effective across a variety of usability contexts, including patient intake, follow-up instructions, and clinical guidance. Your work will directly influence the safety, clarity, and success of AI interactions in real-world healthcare settings.
Responsibilities
- Develop LLM-native conversational interactions tailored to healthcare scenarios.
- Create voice-based conversational designs that prioritize safety, empathy, and clarity while adapting to various contexts (e.g., patient interactions, clinician support).
- Collaborate with clinicians and engineers to design LLM prompts and responses that enhance interaction quality and effectiveness.
- Partner with the user research team to gather and incorporate feedback from healthcare providers to refine designs and ensure alignment with clinical workflows.
- Define and promote best practices and design guidelines for conversational interfaces in healthcare, ensuring consistent and high-quality interactions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in product design, UX design, or conversation design.
- Experience designing voice-enabled or text-based interaction flows across various device types and contexts.
- Knowledge of conversational design principles, including cooperative principles, turn-taking, pragmatics, and cognitive load.
- Portfolio, website, or relevant work samples showcasing your conversational design work (please provide viewable links or access instructions).
- Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5 years of experience designing conversational experiences, ideally with LLMs or AI-driven products.
- Experience working in healthcare, with an understanding of clinical workflows and patient-facing applications.
- Familiarity with speech and language technologies, including ASR, NLU, and TTS.
- Knowledge of safety and accessibility considerations in designing conversational systems.
- Be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If anything appears suspicious, stop engaging immediately and report the incident.
