Conversational Designer

Conversational Designer

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Conversational Designer for a contract position that can be worked 100% remotely. The opportunity will be five months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a Conversational Designer who can conceptualize, develop, and deliver compelling natural language interactions for our members and the many healthcare providers that serve them. As a Conversational Designer on the Digital Innovation Acceleration team, you'll expand upon your existing skillset and passion for conversational problem solving, and help define the multimodal conversational experiences for our family of chatbots, as well as our emerging voice assistant products.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Gather technical and product-specific requirements, create dialogs and flows, and build prototypes to create expressive, scalable, and intuitive conversational content for Chatbots, Virtual Assistants, and omnichannel conversational interfaces.
• Contribute to the development of conversational UI, interactions, and visual tone, and help establish voice and conversation design best practices to ensure a consistent brand experience for all end-users that aligns with organizational content principles.
• Propose human-centered content changes using data gathered from user interactions with our conversational products, while balancing the needs of our business partners and suggested edits from senior subject experts.
• Foster collaboration across multiple teams to solve challenging, and at times, emotional healthcare needs with human-centered design thinking, and communicate solutions with language and storytelling that is on brand.
• Contribute to the delivery of thoughtful and complete user needs analysis, with clearly prioritized and defined user workflows to inform development and architectural requirements.
• Collaborate with research insight teams to assess user behavior and language, uncover hidden needs, summarize insights, and communicate them to drive continuous improvement.
• Champion Conversation Design as a practice, driving cultural change without fear of challenging the status quo and reimagining customer experiences across channels.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), UX Design, UX Content or a related field, or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Preferred: Direct experience with Dialogflow.
• Required: 3 years of strong portfolio with voice and/or text-based conversational flows for virtual agents or virtual assistants that show how users complete simple and complex tasks as well as examples of mobile application, responsive web, and other digital interface design capabilities.
• 1 year of technical knowledge of the fundamentals of conversational design with demonstrated experience designing voice and/or interaction design for conversational chat agents and virtual assistants.
• 1 year of effective verbal and written communication skills (emphasis on grammar and clear language) with the ability to effectively write in different styles and tones as the brand, channel, or situation dictates.
• 1 year of demonstrable experience creating conversational interactions in highly regulated industries such as Healthcare, Telecommunications, Consumer and/or Financial Services and Insurance.
• 1 year of experience in creating accessible designs with experience working within reading standards, regulations, and guidelines (i.e., WCAG) to advocate for inclusive design for all users.
• 1 year of facilitation, collaboration, and consensus-building skills, with experience in presenting to large cross-functional teams and Senior leadership.
• 1 year of multi-lingual or familiarity with localization and mapping of content into various languages.
• UX Writing, Conversation Design, Conversational Copywriting, or AI Training Certification or Coursework.

Preferred:

• Experience in conversational design roles: research, design, development, copywriting, or support managing multiple concurrent projects of varying complexity.
• Understanding of natural language technology, how data from API calls is incorporated, the tech stack behind modern conversational experiences, and how to design for current abilities and limitations.
• An understanding and appreciation for the fundamentals of user experience design, user research, including their processes and methodologies.
• Some experience creating and aiding in the adoption of conversation design tools, component systems, and frameworks including CXD research and metrics, addressing user issues through rich conversational interactions.
• Highly organized, self-starter with the ability to work on multiple projects at once with oversight and deliver high-quality work on time in an Agile environment.
• Knack for design thinking exercises and human-centered (HCD) facilitation methods to solve complex challenges.
• Ability to present to teams within an organization, both verbally and in writing.

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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