Interaction Designer, HCI
Bjak · Remote · United States ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Interaction Design focus
- AI & HCI expertise
- Fully remote role
- Small high-density team
- Define new UX patterns
Actai builds AI-native applications for email, notes, and tasks that operate with minimal prompting. The team focuses on reliability, persistent context, and real-world task completion to organize users' lives.
As an Interaction Designer, you will design the detailed mechanics of user-AI interaction. You will define how users initiate, monitor, and correct multi-step tasks, creating new patterns for proactive AI products from the ground up.
What you'll do
- Design interaction models for initiating, monitoring, and completing AI tasks
- Define interface states such as thinking, acting, uncertain, and recovered
- Create human-in-the-loop controls for reviewing and overriding AI decisions
- Develop patterns for delegation, approval, escalation, and reversibility
- Produce annotated flows and prototypes for engineering handoff
- Collaborate with product and ML teams to translate system constraints
- Test designs with users to reduce confusion and friction
- Contribute to a shared library of reusable HCI interaction patterns
What you'll need
- Experience as an interaction or senior UX designer with deep HCI focus
- Ability to design micro-level states, transitions, and edge cases
- Strong prototyping skills in Figma or equivalent tools
- Systematic thinking to map complex AI behavior to user logic
- Clear understanding of user control, transparency, and recovery principles
- Experience working closely with engineers on implementation
- Comfort designing for non-deterministic and variable system outputs
- Judgment on when to guide, interrupt, or leave users alone
Stack
- Figma
How you'll work
- Remote work available
- Small, hands-on team structure
- Collective decision making
- Virtual and onsite interviews possible
Hiring process
- Submit portfolio with application
- Team evaluates application for fit
- Two rounds of interviews scheduled
- Complete a design assessment
- Prompt decision and offer extension