Senior Manager, AI Experience Designer

At Pfizer, our mission is to create breakthroughs that change patients' lives, and the company just rebuilt its entire technology operating model to deliver on it. Pfizer is becoming an AI-native, agentic-supported organization: enterprise AI platforms in the hands of all 80,000 colleagues, decisions moved closest to the work, and a deeper level of federation than most industry peers. For a designer, this is a rare moment: a 177-year-old company rewiring itself around AI, feedback loops measured in days, and design decisions that shape how an entire company works and how medicines reach patients.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, AI Experience Designer to shape how those platforms look, sound, and behave.

The Senior Manager, AI Experience Designer drives products from inside the team: sitting with engineers and product owners daily, shaping scope and priorities with them, and pushing concepts to working proofs in days rather than weeks. What makes this role different is what it owns: pattern areas of Pfizer's AI-first design system, shipped as code into the build pipeline so the correct, compliant pattern is what every team gets by default.

Success is measured the way the platforms are measured: pattern reuse, first-pass compliance, and experiences colleagues actually adopt.

Design is changing fast, and this role stays ahead of it: exploring new tools and methods first, testing them on real work, and bringing what works back into the system. The role keeps the reference library behind Pfizer's automated design quality checks, watches how patterns perform in the wild, and retires the ones that stop earning their place. A strong technical background is required: the role builds with LLM APIs and agent frameworks to prototype real agent behavior, speaks the language of engineers, and holds their own in product and architecture conversations.

This is an individual contributor role with real authority over the work: the Senior Manager, AI Experience Designer delivers the work personally and owns the outcome. This role specifically requires experience designing Agentic AI and Conversational UX (LLM-enabled assistants): how AI systems behave, communicate, and act, balancing autonomy, human-in-the-loop controls, transparency, safety, and trust.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Design System Pattern Ownership:
Own specific pattern areas of Pfizer's AI-first design system (assistant UI components, conversation templates, transparency and disclosure components, escalation patterns, trust and verification cues) as products with adoption targets.

Design Standards as Code:
Ship design tokens, components, and patterns into the engineering build pipeline and MCP so the correct, compliant pattern is the default for every team.

Design QA Reference Library:
Maintain the reference library behind automated design quality checks: the voice patterns, disclosure components, and trust cues the Design QA Agent enforces.

Pattern Adoption & Standards Drift:
Monitor pattern usage, override rate, and exception requests for owned surfaces; retire or redesign patterns the data shows are not working.

Agent Prototyping in Code:
Build with LLM APIs and agent frameworks to prototype real agent behavior rather than static screens, and validate workflows and risks before build.

Agentic & Conversational Design:
Lead the design of Agentic AI experiences where systems can plan, make decisions, call tools/functions, and complete multi-step workflows with humans in the loop. Own Conversational UX end-to-end (chat and/or voice): dialog flows, conversation state, error recovery, escalation to human support, and safe fallback behaviors.

Assistant Behavior Design:
Design and document assistant behaviors: tone and voice, grounded responses, refusal patterns, transparency cues, and trust-building interaction patterns.

Hands-On Design Partnership:
Be a vocal, engaged, proactive, and hands-on partner within a cross-functional team, shaping scope and priorities with engineers and product owners daily.

Rapid Delivery:
Deliver end-to-end design for high-impact projects under tight deadlines, ensuring alignment with business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility; produce MVPs and proofs of concept that validate business ideas within days.

Accessibility & Inclusive Design:
Ensure accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA) across all designs, championing inclusive design practices for diverse user needs.

Playbooks & Pattern Libraries:
Create reusable playbooks and pattern libraries for agentic workflows and conversational design (e.g., escalation, repair, safety responses, approvals, and multi-step task orchestration).

Enablement & Peer Mentorship:
Proactively train and mentor designers and cross-functional partners on the rapid prototyping process, AI tools, and internal design systems.

Product-Minded Design Strategy:
Act as a product-minded design strategist: frame problems, define hypotheses, influence roadmaps with Product partners, and connect design decisions to measurable…