Senior Conversational Designer - IVR

GEICO • San Jose, CA

13d • $109,675 - $172,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO is looking for a passionate and talented Sr. Conversational Designer. This role will work on a variety of conversational platforms, designing experiences that serve customer needs across the enterprise and connect to different communication channels. The individual will work closely with product managers, engineers and other experienced designers from initial concept and strategy through the execution. Your background in conversational design will help guide the team in creating designs that are focused on natural interactions for customers. This position is a hybrid role that requires to be on-site 2-3 days a week at one of the following locations: Palo Alto, CA; Manhattan, NYC; Seattle, WA.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in conversational design
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
• Application of Natural Language Processing and Conversation Design principles used in successful creation of customer facing voice/chat experiences
• Expertise and background in analysis of conversational flows and surveys

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing for cross channel experiences
• Understanding of machine learning and AI interfaces
• Effective communication and storytelling skills
• Proficiency with design tools and conversation platforms, such as Figma, DialogFlow, Amazon Lex
• Experience in prompt engineering and working with LLM and RAG systems
• Familiarity with working in an established design system
• Understanding of content strategy and design principles
• UX research and testing background, interviewing end users

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to inform intuitive and engaging customer experiences
• Design conversational flows, wireframes, and mockups for new and existing interactions across a variety of channels (chatbots, IVR, voice)
• Advocate for the customer through human-centered research methodologies
• Create new guidelines, best practices and build a stronger foundation of conversational design principles
• Complete analysis of existing conversation paths to discover improvement opportunities in both conversation and expansion of AI or Machine Learning
• Champion prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
• Collaborate closely with Tech partners to leverage new machine learning, AI platforms, and NLP to build engaging cross channel conversational experiences.
• Scope requests, develop and communicate a level of effort, plan work in a team environment, adjust quickly to changes or new information, and escalate when necessary.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level