Agent Experience Designer, Voice (Multilingual)

Agent Experience Designer, Voice (Multilingual) ABOUT US - At Sierra, we’re creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Singapore, and Japan. - We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. - Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. WHAT YOU’LL DO You’ll help shape and scale high-quality voice experiences across a global portfolio of AI agents. Working closely with cross-functional teams and customer stakeholders, you’ll combine systems thinking, design judgment, and operational rigor to improve voice quality, accelerate multilingual readiness, and create more human experiences. - Improve breadth and depth of voice quality: Evaluate, compare, and iterate on voices across multiple providers, languages, and use cases, ensuring experiences meet a high bar for clarity, naturalness, and appropriateness while continuously improving product and systems. - Support faster multilingual readiness and launches: Partner with product, engineering, and deployment teams to research solutions, evaluate options, identify risks, and guide voice-related decisions that enable timely, high-confidence launches across regions. - Design and apply effective and repeatable evaluations: Create and maintain structured methods for assessing voice performance and interaction quality, helping teams make informed tradeoffs and catch issues early. - Partner cross-functionally to resolve voice and interaction issues: Collaborate with engineering, product, and support teams to investigate quality gaps, diagnose root causes, and drive improvements through clear recommendations and follow-through. - Participate in customer-facing voice design work: Contribute to voice selection and design discussions with customers, helping them understand options, tradeoffs, and best practices while ensuring outcomes align with their goals. - Enable teams to scale voice design effectively: Design and develop guidance, examples, lightweight frameworks, and product enhancements, that empower product managers and engineers to make strong voice and interaction decisions independently. - Co-create agent personas and interaction patterns: Work with internal teams and customers to shape agent personalities, behaviors, and interactions, supporting distinct and intentional agent experiences as a trusted advisor. - Capture and share learnings: Document insights, patterns, and regional considerations to improve consistency, reduce repeated effort, and raise the overall quality bar across teams and deployments. WHAT YOU’LL BRING - 5+ years in a role that blends product craft with applied systems thinking (e.g., voice/AI experience design, conversation design, applied linguistics, UX for AI, product engineering with strong user experience focus, localization program leadership with quality ownership). - Strong ability to operate across many languages and priorities—you bring structure to ambiguity and can ship reliably while quality stays high. - Experience creating repeatable evaluation frameworks (rubrics, test suites, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)