Conversation Designer, Assistant - Facebook
Facebook is seeking a Conversational Designer, Assistant to join their team and work on the Facebook family of apps as well as emerging AR and VR products. To apply, click here.
Be a part of a team of designers, engineers and artists passionate about creating compelling products for Facebook's billions of users. As a Conversation Designer for the Assistant Design Team, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process from brainstorming to tweaking pixels and content right before launch. You will be expected to utilize your full range of conversation design, product design, interaction design, and visual design skills, and you will own the experience for a wide area of the Assistant product. You will build upon your existing skill set and passion for conversational problem solving, and help define the multimodal conversational experiences for our Facebook family of apps, as well as our emerging AR and VR products. We are looking for an experienced and talented Conversation Designer to conceptualize, illustrate, build and deliver innovative conversational and natural language interaction paradigms. You will be expected to drive these conversational experiences from concepts and storyboards to product launch with attention to detail through elegant probabilistic designs that allow humans to interact more naturally with our devices. A positive and collaborative attitude is required, and we’re looking for a self-motivated problem solver with impeccable communication skills.
Conversation Designer, Assistant Responsibilities
Conceptualize and iterate on high-quality end-to-end designs for speech and conversational user interfaces and content
Create natural dialog flows, wireframes and templates that clearly convey a conversation architecture to our engineering teams
Work closely with linguists to create scalable ontologies and guidelines that inform our natural language systems
Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams
Document standards, frameworks, processes and methodology
Clearly articulate your vision, strategy and design to cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders
Collaborate with PMs, engineers, art team, researchers and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch (and then some)
Create and prototype pre-visualizations to help communicate UI/UX ideas
Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality
Be an advocate for the conversation design community within FRL, and across all of Facebook
Minimum Qualifications
2+ years experience shipping conversational experiences or AI products
Portfolio featuring examples of conversational experiences
Experience crafting demos that showcase the potential of conversational experiences
Proven experience to contribute to design for products in a cross-functional environment
Knowledge of how qualitative and quantitative research can improve your designs
Product thinking and design experience in conversational and AI design spaces
Preferred Qualifications
Experience shipping at least 1 conversational or AI product
Knowledge and experience with natural language understanding and generation systems
Experience designing for Assistant, AI, machine learning, or AR/VR products
Experience creating multiple demos or prototypes showcasing the bleeding edge capabilities of conversational design
Experience iterating every phase of design, from paper to pixels