External job description Interested in Amazon Echo and Alexa? Come work on it! Our team is building new voice-forward Alexa products and experiences that delight our customers in brand new ways. Our mission is to push the envelope in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), and voice user interfaces (VUI) in general in order to provide the best possible end user experience. As a Voice UX Designer, you will lead, define, and drive spoken language and multimodal interfaces for existing and upcoming Alexa experiences and devices. You must be an innovator, since you will be expected to create solutions for exciting and ambitious ideas for which no interaction paradigm currently exists. You must be extremely proactive, because you will regularly find yourself in uncharted territory where the key to your success will be to get ahead of the curve. You must be a collaborator, as you will be working side-by-side with product managers and engineers to bring your designs
· 4+ years of professional experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or product designer · Experience with voice or multimodal speech interfaces · Experience with speech and language technologies, e.g. voice user interfaces (VUI), speech recognition (ASR), language understanding (grammars or NLU), text to speech (TTS) · Bachelor’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction, Design, Linguistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Cognitive Science, or a related field · Experience working cross-team and synthesizing feedback and input from product management, engineering, and marketing