Conversation Designer

Quippy; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding role with equity

Direct work with founder

Impactful product

YC-backed team in SF

Job summary

Quippy in San Francisco is looking for a writer to craft realistic practice scenarios and partner dialogues for daily conversations users rehearse. You will shape scenes, edit lines, and help define the tone and feedback style for the app.

Ideal candidates bring a background in theater, improv, screenwriting, coaching, or teaching and have writing samples. This is a founding role with equity, and you will work closely with Jonathan, the founder, in a small SF team backed by Y Combinator.

Qualifications

• You write dialogue that sounds like real conversations.
• Experience from theater, improv, writing, or teaching helps.
• You can edit your own work and refine scenes.

Responsibilities

• Write practice scenarios drawn from real life.
• Create scene partners with distinct voices.
• Shape feedback to be honest and actionable.
• Test scenes with users and rewrite what lands.

Skills

Dialogue writing

Editing

Storytelling

Nuance sensitivity

Job description

Quippy (YC F26) is a daily practice room for the conversations people dread. You pick a real situation, like disagreeing with your manager or starting a conversation at a party, rehearse it with a realistic scene partner by voice or text, and get honest, line‑by‑line feedback on what landed. The app is live on the App Store.

Every practice session in Quippy is a small scene: a situation, a partner with a personality, and feedback at the end. You will write and shape those scenes, and decide what good feedback sounds like.

What you will work on

• Write practice scenarios drawn from real life, like asking for a raise or making a new friend

• Create scene partners with distinct voices who react like real people

• Shape the feedback so it is honest, specific, and easy to act on

• Test scenes with users and rewrite what does not land

You might be a fit if

• You write dialogue that sounds like people actually talk

• You come from theater, improv, games, screenwriting, coaching, or teaching, or you have writing to show

• You notice the small moves that change how a conversation goes

• You like editing your own work as much as writing it

Why join now

• A founding role with shares in the company

• You work directly with Jonathan, the founder

• What you build reaches real users within days

• A small team in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator

Full‑time. San Francisco preferred, remote work possible. Competitive salary and stock in the company.