
Conversational UX Designer
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Chicago • Colorado • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $97,530 - $158,480 per year
About the role
- Design End-to-End Experiences: Lead the discovery, design, and delivery of dialog flows, user journeys, and customer workflows for voice and chat platforms across complex, high-stakes interactions of heavy industry and physical worksites.
- Craft AI Personas & Copy: Develop distinct assistant personas aligned with our brand and write high-quality, concise, and context-aware content using UX writing best practices.
- Determine multi-turn dialog strategies: set the direction for proactive suggestions, disambiguation, confirmations, voice patterns, barge-in, repair, and latency management.
- Lead Collaborative Workshops: Facilitate design and stakeholder sessions to elicit requirements, define project scopes, and advocate for user-centered design.
- Optimize Through Data: Analyze interaction metrics and test initiatives, and continuously iterate on interactions to improve assistant responses and customer satisfaction.
- Enable Partners & Stakeholders: Create design briefs, wireframes, and prototypes (using tools like Figma) to communicate solutions to non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Proven Expertise: Experience in Conversational UX, Voice User Interface (VUI) design, UX Writing, or a related Product Design role.
- AI Fluency: Understanding of NLP/NUL concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), Chat/Voice, and the emerging field of Agentic AI workflows.
- Technical Toolbelt: Proficiency in conversational prototyping tools such as Figma, and voice/chat-centered tools.
- Strategic Writing Skills: Exceptional UX writing ability, with the skill to adapt tone and style specifically for conversational interfaces that support complex flows for our industrial customer use cases.
- Agile Mindset: Experience working within an Agile framework, managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Analytical Rigor: The ability to translate raw data and customer feedback into actionable design improvements.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Conversational UXVoice User Interface (VUI) designUX WritingNLPNatural Language Understanding (NLU)Large Language Models (LLMs)Conversational prototypingData analysisUser-centered designAgile methodology
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationAnalytical thinkingAdaptabilityStakeholder engagementFacilitationStrategic writingProblem-solvingCustomer focus