29.3357, Jobs: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Conversation Designer, Sensely

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3357. Fri Aug 31 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3357, Jobs: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Conversation Designer, Sensely

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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:50:49
From: Joseph Tyler [joseph at sensely.com]
Subject: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Conversation Designer, Sensely, California, USA

 
University or Organization: Sensely 
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://www.sensely.com/
Job Title: Conversation Designer
Job Rank: Conversation Designer

Specialty Areas: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 


Description:

Conversation designer (VUI) 
Sensely, San Francisco

Sensely's avatar and chatbot-based platforms help direct patients and
insurance members to the healthcare resources and insurance services they
need, when they need it. With offices in London and San Francisco, Sensely's
global teams provide virtual assistant solutions to insurance companies,
pharmaceutical clients, and hospital systems worldwide.

As a conversation designer at Sensely, you will be part of a team that works
on many different types of tasks, including:
- Writing dialogue and building conversations
- Content management and optimization for our platform
- Designing features with product and engineering
- QA testing for new conversations and product features
- Configuration: building and maintaining accounts, updating attributes for
those accounts, assigning conversations, more
- Managing projects with external contractors, e.g. translations
- UX/UI and usability research
- Analytics, finding patterns in user behavior
- Helping to define the conversational experience

Qualifications:
- Motivated learner and problem-solver
- Knowledgeable about linguistic norms of speech, writing, conversation and
communication
- Excited about working on a cutting-edge, multimodal conversational platform
- Bachelor’s degree in linguistics or a related discipline

Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), and NLU technology
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative methods for (user) research
- Comfortable with technology, including skills like data manipulation and
visualization, SQL, scripting
- Master’s or PhD in linguistics or a related discipline

Sensely offers a competitive salary package, 100% medical and vision benefits,
dental benefits, employee stock options and flexible work arrangements.

To apply, email conversation at sense.ly with a resume, a link to your LinkedIn
page, and a short description of why you’re interested in the job.

To view the full job description please visit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4y7pfc7mhfzhkw/Conversation%20designer%20%28VUI%29%
20job%20description.pdf?dl=0



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	San Francisco, CA  
Email Address for Applications: conversation at sensely.com 
Contact Information:
	Joseph Tyler 
	Email: joseph at sensely.com 


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