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CapB InfoteK
CapB is a global leader on IT Solutions and Managed Services. Our R&D is focused on providing cutting edge products and solutions across Digital Transformations from Cloud, AI/ML, IOT, Blockchain to MDM/PIM, Supply chain, ERP, CRM, HRMS and Integration solutions. For our growing needs we need consultants who can work with us on salaried or contract basis. We provide industry standard benefits, and an environment for LEARNING & Growth.For one of our ongoing projects we are looking for a VUI Designer.
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Def Method
About Def Method
We are generalist software engineering and product management consultants committed to building the best software company we can by delivering excellent results for our customers. We apply user-centered design, lean, and agile software development principles to help our customers create valuable products, and are always refining our craft.
Value prop of this role
We’re looking for an experienced Conversation Designer to join the team.
Def Method builds a range of products for our clients, varying from greenfield applications for startups to well-established products across various industries.
An estimate of how you’ll spend your time
Practice: 50%
Tactical: 40%
Facilitate product discovery and development on client projects, act as design advisor to our customers and consultants, and provide additional project support as needed
Operations:10%
What you’ll bring:
Why we love working here
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Analytical Linguists work across Google to drive improvements in quality, classification, information structure, and natural language understanding and generation. As an Analytical Linguist you will work both on complex projects spanning multiple products, groups, and disciplines, and on tightly focused efforts to produce specific product components or answer specific research questions.
Analytical Linguists work in many different areas and arrive with a wide variety of skills—your specialization might involve natural language processing and understanding, phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, ontology, program management, human subject research, experimental design, statistics, corpus linguistics, large scale data acquisition, or any combination. This team is part of some of the most groundbreaking and exciting work at Google. It’s our goal to use insights from linguistics and related fields to constantly improve our products.
Understanding natural language is at the core of Google’s technologies. The Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team at Google guides, builds and innovates methodologies around semantic analysis and representation, syntactic parsing and realization, morphology and lexicon development. Our work directly impacts the Assistant, Search, Knowledge Graph and Google Translate, as well as other machine intelligence research.
You will help create the toolkits and infrastructure to build conversational voice interfaces and hybrid VUI/GUIs. You will also improve our ability to model language, infer user’s intents, have robust conversations and generate fluent responses while preparing for the next generation of machine learning and language understanding technologies.
Google aims to build products that organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible to our users. As a Analytical Linguist at Google, you could be working on new technologies, platforms, consumer facing products, and/or enterprise systems. The end goal will be to match you with the team that best aligns with your interests, experience, and where you will have the most impact.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
Principal VUI Designer – Alexa Experience
Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloud-based voice service that powers Echo devices, the pioneering Amazon AI designed around your voice. Our vision is to create a simple, fun and natural voice-based experience – to set users free by giving them frictionless access to Alexa’s wealth of information and services. We are seeking the industry’s best to help us define and build this vision. Join us, and help invent the future of everyday life. The experiences you will craft require ambitious thinking and a tireless focus on solving customer problems. You must be passionate about creating innovative experiences that can scale to hundreds of millions of customers, and insanely curious about new technology and unlocking its potential.We are looking for an entrepreneurial, creative, expert Principal VUI Designer to join our team. In this high profile role, you will help define and champion the North Star vision for Alexa, identify and build new cross-organizational products that help Alexa move towards this vision, and measure how effectively Alexa is tracking towards the North Star. You will provide best-in-class expertise in producing and finalizing VUI designs during the implementation of strategic voice products. You will collaborate with numerous product, design, user research, development, voice technology experts and other internal and executive teams to identify, define, and implement solutions to raise the bar on the Alexa customer experience, measured by an outsized impact on customers’ interest in and engagement with Alexa. Success requires understanding and navigating rapidly evolving product and technology requirements, and synthesizing complex technical capabilities into a cohesive and visionary narrative. In this role, you will be on point to drive strategic voice initiatives from definition to launch. This includes working on the initial ideation of the aspirational experience, getting buy-in, translating the vision into actionable and discrete roadmap items, and perfecting VUI designs that achieve best-in-class CX.
As a Principal VUI Designer, you will serve as a design lead on our most demanding cross functional design problems driving spoken language and multimodal interfaces for Amazon. You are proactive; you regularly find yourself in uncharted territory where the key to your success is to get ahead of the curve. You are a pragmatic visionary; you translate business needs and constraints into a simple, intuitive, customer-focused solution. You are a collaborator; you work side-by-side with engineers to bring your designs to life. Most importantly, you are an innovator; you create solutions to ambitious problems for which no interaction paradigm currently exists. You excel at conceptualizing spoken and multimodal experiences in the abstract, and driving the vision into solid design deliverables.
We are looking for a Principal VUI Designer who can:
Nuance is the pioneer and leader in conversational artificial intelligence (AI) innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. We deliver solutions that understand, analyze, and respond to people, amplifying human intelligence to increase productivity and improve security. With decades of both domain and AI expertise, we work with thousands of organizations across a wide range of industries.
Join our team! At Nuance, we are constantly reinventing how people connect with technology and with each other. Our AI-powered solutions empower organizations to transform “business as usual.” For decades, the world’s leading financial, healthcare, telecommunications, retailers, and government organizations have trusted Nuance to bring them award-winning solutions that deliver more meaningful outcomes and empower a smarter, more connected world. From clinical speech recognition technologies that free physicians to spend more time caring for patients to real-time intelligence that powers billions of customer interactions, we’re deeply committed to helping organizations push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Job Summary:
Position Summary
Manage language data analysis and resources for ASR and NLU. Work closely with other engineers, research scientists, and project managers to create accurate speech products across languages and dialects. Use analytical mindset, strong communication skills, collaborative attitude, and personal drive to achieve team goals. Be an expert in phonetics, phonology and data analysis, have a passion for the scientific study of language, and research experience that includes a thorough understanding of scientific methods and experimental design.
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Knowledge, skills and qualifications:
Education: BS or MS in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Speech Science
Minimum years of work experience: 2+
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Nuance offers a compelling and rewarding work environment. We offer market competitive salaries, bonus, equity, benefits, meaningful growth and development opportunities and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our continuing success.
Strategic Education, Inc.
**UPDATE – Seeking experience with UX design, storyboarding, and screenwriting – 70% design & 30% programming, in addition to the competencies outlined below.**
This role will be working within a broader team of conversation analysts and developers, to conceptualize the conversational experiences across modalities. This cross-functional team is responsible for applying automation and AI technologies, primarily conversational AI (chatbots), to define, design, and refine a frictionless end-to-end service and support experience for our students.
The conversation designer will need to transform user needs across critical points of the customer journey into organic and actionable solutions via conversational AI technology according to a channel agnostic framework.
Expertise will include strong contextual writing abilities, envisioning end-to-end learning experiences utilizing conversational AI as the primary interface.
This is a hands-on role that requires expert creative and conversational scripting skills that allow users to have effective and engaging conversational experiences via conversational AI design practices, tools, and technology. The contributions of this role will grow to help define and shape a new conversational design practice within Strategic Education.
Responsibilities
Skills
Experience
Education
Bachelor’s degree or higher required from an accredited institution; specialization in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Linguistics, English, Information Sciences Human Factors, Social Sciences, and/or Public Health is preferred
Position Highlights:
What you will do:
The Lead Designer – Conversational Commerce is responsible for user experience design of initiatives impacting the conversational channels. The Lead Designer – Conversational Commerce guides, leads, and influences a team of UX/UI Designers performing complex workflow analysis, designs, and converting business objectives into detailed blueprints and requirements to be used during the implementation of new and / or improved conversational products of all company initiatives.
This role uses UX design best practices, conceptual models, personas, trends, and internal documentation standards to perform complex conversational designs (Voice, Chats, and coming voice technology trends) for company projects and initiatives. The UX Design Conversational Lead works closely with our cross-functional team of designers, architects, and content developers to draft complex interaction flows, VUI design, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and detailed design specifications for all conversational channels.
The Lead Designer – Conversational Commerce manages, mentors and trains a specialized group of Designers and uses various tools and the acquired knowledge of TracFone’s processes and systems to review any conversational channel design and design documentation produced by any UX Design team member to make sure best practices are followed.
Finally, this position plays a key role as the subject matter expert in TracFone’s conversational channels and performs a liaison function between the business side of the organization and the technical (IT) side.
Responsibilities:
Lead Design Efforts
UX/UI Design Architecture and Strategy
Conversational User Interface and User Experience Design
User Experience Research
Management Responsibilities
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