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Our platform connects people, systems, data and AI to help organizations deliver more personalized service, improve operational efficiency and build stronger customer relationships.\nHelp build, support and operate technology used by more than 8,000 organizations in over 100 countries - moving AI from possibility to production in real-world enterprise environments every day.\nConversational AI and Research Focus\nAs a Senior User Experience Designer focused on Conversational AI, you will design how end customers interact directly with AI across voice and digital channels, from structured dialogue through to generative and increasingly agentic experiences. You will bring strong UX fundamentals, conversational or service design experience, and a research-led approach to shape how AI understands customer needs, manages dialogue and context, takes action, handles uncertainty and failure, and knows when to involve a human. You will be comfortable operating in ambiguous and emerging problem spaces, using research and exploration to discover the right problems to solve and translate customer insight into clear experience direction.\nTeam:\nYou will be part of Genesys Design, a roughly 100-person team of designers, researchers, educators, and operations specialists. Your immediate team will focus on crafting powerful virtual agents and agentic products across conversation, automation, and AI-assisted workflows. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Data Science, AI, and Design to explore new interaction patterns and create experiences grounded in real customer needs.\nKey Responsibilities:\nResearch-Led Discovery:\nLead and contribute to research that uncovers end-customer needs, behaviours, and opportunities for Conversational AI experiences.\nPlan and conduct research using appropriate methods, including interviews, usability testing, conversation analysis, concept testing, and prototype evaluation.\nTranslate research into insights, opportunity areas, and experience direction, using evidence to shape problems as well as validate solutions. \nConversational Experience Design:\nDesign how AI interacts with end customers across understanding and clarification, multi-turn dialogue, context, action, uncertainty, recovery, and human handoff.\nDesign across structured, generative, and agentic interactions, selecting the appropriate level of flexibility and autonomy based on customer need, context, risk, and system capability.\nDefine conversational models, interaction patterns, prototypes, and experience principles, considering trust, transparency, tone, user control, and recovery as core parts of the experience. \nVoice and Digital Experience:\nDesign across voice and digital channels, understanding how different modalities shape customer behaviour, expectations, and interaction design.\nDesign the complete Voice experience, considering areas such as understanding, turn-taking, latency, interruption, pacing, tone, recovery, and conversational naturalness.\nPrototype and evaluate conversations as real interactions, using evidence to identify breakdowns and refine both AI behaviour and the customer experience.\nWork with Engineering and AI partners to understand technical capabilities and constraints and make appropriate experience trade-offs. \nAutonomy, Collaboration and Influence:\nIndependently lead complex design problems where customer needs, business priorities, and AI capabilities may still be evolving, exploring multiple solution paths rather than defaulting to an initial solution.\nMake thoughtful decisions with incomplete information, clearly communicating assumptions, risks, and trade-offs while taking responsibility for moving the work forward.\nInfluence Product, Engineering, AI, Research, and Design partners through evidence, strong design rationale, storytelling, and prototyping.\nContribute to the quality of the wider team through critique, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. \nRequirements:\n4+ years of experience in UX design, product design, conversation design, service design, user research, content design, customer experience, or a related field.\nExperience conducting or leading research and translating findings into experience and product direction.\nStrong UX foundations, with meaningful experience designing conversational or AI-driven experiences across voice, digital, or both, including multi-turn interaction, context, clarification, recovery, and escalation.\nUnderstanding of AI and voice technologies such as speech recognition, text-to-speech, NLU, LLMs, streaming, and agentic systems.\nAbility to bring structure to ambiguous problems and translate them into research questions, design hypotheses, and experience direction.\nAbility to communicate complex experiences through appropriate research, journey, conversational, and prototyping artefacts\nStrong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain design decisions and trade-offs to cross-functional partners.\nA portfolio demonstrating strong UX craft, research-informed decision-making, conversational or service design capability, and complex problem-solving. \nWhat Success Looks Like:\nYou independently lead complex Conversational AI experience problems from discovery through experience definition and validation, grounded in a strong understanding of end customers.\nYou bring structure and clarity to ambiguous problems through research, exploration, and prototyping.\nYou create voice and digital conversations that feel natural, trustworthy, and effective.\nYou influence Product and Engineering direction through evidence and strong design judgement, while raising the quality of the wider team through critique and collaboration.\nOur Benefits:\nAt Genesys, we’re committed to supporting your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:\nFlexible work options - Choose what works for you with hybrid schedules, work-from-home flexibility, and the option to collaborate onsite in our state-of-the-art Galway office.\nCareer development & growth - Access continuous learning opportunities, mentoring, and clear paths for advancement.\nCompetitive pension scheme - Invest in your future with an excellent employer-supported pension plan.\nAnnual bonus program - Be rewarded for your impact and contributions.\nComprehensive health coverage - Including private health insurance, access to company dental plan, and wellness supports.\nFinancial protection - Enjoy Income Protection and Life Assurance, along with access to dedicated financial planning resources to help you make confident, informed decisions about your future.\nFamily-friendly policies - Generous paid maternity and paternity\nWorking at Genesys\nAI at enterprise scale - Build, support and operate AI-powered technology used by more than 8,000 organizations worldwide. 150+ new AI features were released in the last fiscal year.\nA flexible-first culture - Join a global team of nearly 7,000 employees with flexible ways of working designed to help people do their best work.\nGrowth in the AI era - Build future-ready skills through mentorship, learning programs, leadership development and education support.\nTime to recharge and give back - Benefits include paid volunteer time, August Free Fridays, well-being resources and regionally tailored programs for employees and their families.\nRecognized globally - Genesys is Great Place to Work® certified in 17 countries and 94% of employees are proud to tell others they work at Genesys.\nLearn more about our culture, AI innovation and sustainability commitments through our Careers site and Sustainability Report.\nWhat Happens After You Apply\nAfter you apply, here's what you can typically expect:\nOur Talent Acquisition team reviews your application with the hiring team.\nA Talent Acquisition Partner will review your application and, if your background is aligned, schedule a Zoom interview. \nNext, you'll meet the hiring manager and other members of the interview team.\nWe aim to keep the process focused and respectful of your time, with no more than five interviews in most cases.\nAfter interviews are complete, our team will follow up with the final steps.\nEvery application is reviewed by a person. Response times may vary by role and location, but our team will keep you informed throughout the process.\nStay Connected\nStay connected to learn more about how we're applying AI to customer and employee experience challenges and get notified when relevant opportunities become available.\nGet notified about relevant opportunities.\nBe the one building what's next - where AI, experience and impact come together.\nEmployee Referral\nIf a Genesys employee referred you, please apply using the link they shared so we can connect your application to their referral.\nAbout Genesys:\nGenesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. Genesys Cloud™ is the Agentic Orchestration Platform that securely connects people, systems, data and AI across the enterprise with built-in governance and control. As a result, organizations can drive customer loyalty, growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces. To learn more, visit www.genesys.ai.\nReasonable Accommodations:\nIf you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in your ability to access or use this online application and need an alternative method for applying, you or someone you know may contact us .\nYou can expect a response within 24-48 hours. To help us provide the best support, click the email link above to open a pre-filled message and complete the requested information before sending. If you have any questions, please include them in your email.\nThis email is intended to support job seekers requesting accommodations. Messages unrelated to accommodation-such as application follow-ups or resume submissions-may not receive a response.\nGenesys is an equal opportunity employer committed to fairness in the workplace. 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