LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.  

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about. 

You will: 

• Design effective, innovative, and delightful conversational experiences using user-centric design methodologies
• Work with major enterprise brands to understand their business goals, their customer personas and intents to define an automation roadmap
• Review and provide feedback on other designer’s work. Prioritize design work to meet project goals and deadlines
• Lead design workshops and conduct user research where appropriate, to tie insights to business results
• Research and analyze intents and the associated customer journeys. Evaluate when bots are appropriate and in what form
• Create bot design documents, including bot personas, example dialogs, conversation flow diagrams, error handling patterns
• Define the intent portfolio for natural language understanding and how it maps in the conversation designs
• Review customer transcripts to identify gaps in the conversation design; modify design patterns to bridge those gaps
• Write copy suitable for automated conversations in the messaging medium
• Interpret bot performance metrics to hypothesize where design changes can be made and tested to drive specific goals
• Create and evangelize conversation design best practice standards, reusable design patterns and processes
• Contribute to the team’s conversational design system
• Collaborate with project managers, optimization managers, bot developers, and bot tuners to execute on bot implementation
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication to internal executives, C-level clients, partners, and team members

You have:

• Advanced experience in bot strategy, conversation design and optimization. Can produce a portfolio of example work
• 5+ total years of related experience
• 2+ years in Conversation Design, or 3+ years in a UX-related role
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, having presented design thought leadership to diverse audiences, from client executives to technical team members 
• Knowledge of Natural Language Understanding technologies and platforms such as Dialogflow, Watson, LUIS, etc. and how it impacts conversation designs
• Knowledge of messaging channels such as web messaging, SMS, Whatsapp, etc. and what the advantages and disadvantages are of each
• We consider diverse backgrounds - you may be a UX designer with a knack for language, or a Communications/Linguistics major with a knack for design thinking, or a game designer with experience on dialogue systems, etc. 
• Contact center and/or customer service experience a plus
• Design team management experience or strong interest to gain design management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience

Benefits: 

• Health: medical and mental.
• Time away: vacation, holidays, and care days.
• Financial: Superannuation, ESPP and group life insurance.
• Family: parental leave.
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: Exclusive perks and discounts.
• #LI-Remote

Why you’ll love working here:

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace. 

Belonging at LivePerson:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.