Forward Deployed Agent Designer - Agentic Voice

Design; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Dialpad seeks a Forward Deployed Agent Designer - Agentic Voice to own the live voice quality of deployed AI agents across digital and phone interactions. You will tune voices, personas, and pacing while ensuring brand-consistent, natural-sounding responses in real customer conversations.

In this customer-facing, iterative role, you will partner with strategic customers and cross-functional teams to translate deployment learnings into scalable improvements, driving trust and performance in

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing role improving conversational AI or voice agents in production.
• Strong understanding of conversational AI, LLM behavior, and production quality issues.
• Experience with voice prompting, prosody control, SSML, and pronunciation prompting.
• Excellent written and spoken language instincts to keep AI output clear and on-brand.
• Ability to diagnose quality issues using metrics, transcripts, and live call examples.
• Customer consulting skills and comfort working in fast-moving deployment environments.
• Experience tuning voice bots or speech systems in high-stakes settings.
• Familiarity with latency analysis and turn-taking in live voice interactions.

Responsibilities

• Own voice quality outcomes for AI voice agent deployments from implementation to production.
• Collaborate with customers to define target workflows, brand voice, and success criteria.
• Tune voices, personas, phrasing, pronunciation, pacing, and spoken interaction patterns.
• Improve consistency, fluency, and latency across live interactions.
• Analyze live conversations to identify failure modes and trust-breaking behaviors.
• Define quality standards for CFL, containment, and production readiness with teams.
• Iterate agent behavior based on testing and feedback to improve production voice.
• Work with Product, Engineering, and Design to translate learnings into platform improvements.

Skills

Conversational AI

Voice agents

SSML tuning

Voice quality analysis

Client-facing consulting

Latency optimization

Brand voice consistency

Cross-functional collaboration

Production environment

Tools

SSML

Voice tuning tools

Job description

About Dialpad Dialpad is the AI platform for customer experience, built to resolve customer problems in real time across voice and digital. Our AI agents learn from your best human agents and improve with every interaction, helping organizations understand their customers, deliver better experiences, increase operational efficiencies, and build a lasting competitive advantage.

Unlike legacy systems built to route and answer, or standalone agentic bot vendors built to deflect, Dialpad was built to resolve. Our AI agents and human agents operate on a single platform with shared context, allowing Agentic AI to resolve issues, advance deals, and eliminate busywork through automation while seamlessly handing conversations to humans when needed, with full context preserved.

Market-leading brands, including Randstad, Motorola Solutions, Netflix, the San Diego Padres, the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club, and Cal Athletics, trust Dialpad. Dialpad is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, GV, ICONIQ Capital, and T-Mobile.

Being a Dialer
At Dialpad, AI isn’t just a feature; it’s how our teams do their best work every day. We put powerful AI tools in every employee’s hands so they can move faster, think bigger, and achieve more.

We believe every conversation matters. And we’ve built the platform that turns those conversations into insight and action, for our customers and ourselves.

We look for people who are intensely curious and hold themselves to a high bar. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We seek individuals who embody our core traits: Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic .

Your Role

As an Forward Deployed Agent Designer - Agentic Voice, you'll own the quality of the live voice experience for deployed AI agents across both digital interactions and phone calls. This role is responsible for making sure our agents sound consistent, fluent, and fast enough to earn trust in real customer conversations while reflecting the right personality for each customer’s brand.

You will work directly with strategic customers and internal cross-functional teams to tune how AI agents speak, respond, and perform in production across both digital voice experiences and live phone conversations. You will partner with customers to define the personality their brand should express through the agent, then translate that into voice, tone, persona, and conversational behavior that feels natural, credible, and on-brand. You will improve voice quality across the dimensions that matter most in live deployments: consistency, fluency, latency, turn‑taking, and conversational confidence. You will analyze production interactions, tune agent behavior, refine persona and voice outputs, and help turn early deployments into repeatable, high‑quality voice experiences at scale.

This is a customer‑facing, highly iterative role for someone who can combine conversational instinct, technical fluency, and operational judgment to improve AI voice agents in real‑world conditions. This role is a key member of our Services team. Work can be done in a hybrid environment, or remote, depending on the candidate’s location. Customer travel will be done, as needed.

What You’ll Do

• Own voice quality outcomes for assigned AI voice agent deployments from implementation through production readiness and early live optimization.
• Partner directly with customers to understand target workflows, user expectations, brand voice, escalation needs, and success criteria, then translate those into agent behavior and spoken interaction design.
• Tune AI agents by selecting and refining voices, personas, phrasing, pronunciation, pacing, text normalization, and spoken interaction patterns.
• Improve consistency, fluency, and latency across live interactions, with explicit attention to turn‑taking, dead air reduction, prosody, and conversational naturalness.
• Analyze live conversations and quality signals to identify failure modes, unnatural phrasing, mispronunciations, hesitation patterns, tool‑call friction, or trust‑breaking behaviors.
• Define and apply quality standards for consistency, fluency, and latency (CFL), resolution, containment, and production‑readiness in partnership with delivery, product, and engineering teams.
• Rapidly iterate agent behavior based on testing, live‑call analysis, and customer feedback to improve voice performance in production.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Agent Experience Design teams to translate deployment learnings into reusable improvements for the platform and future customers.
• Help establish the quality bar for voice agents across strategic deployments and the broader agentic motion, especially where spoken experience quality determines whether customers trust the product enough to expand.

Skills You’ll Bring

• Experience in a customer‑facing role improving conversational AI, voice agents, speech products, or AI‑enabled voice experiences in production
• Strong understanding of conversational AI, LLM behavior, agent tuning, and production agent quality issues.
• Experience voice prompting, prosody control, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) or similar and text normalization / pronunciation prompting
• Strong written and spoken language instincts, with the ability to make AI responses sound natural, clear, consistent, and on‑brand.
• Analytical ability to diagnose quality issues using metrics, transcripts, traces, and live call examples.
• Strong customer consulting skills and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast‑moving deployment environments.
• Experience tuning voice bots, contact‑center AI, or speech systems in high‑stakes customer environments.
• Familiarity with latency analysis, turn‑taking behavior, or speech‑quality tradeoffs in chained versus real‑time voice systems.
• Experience working with regulated or high‑complexity customer environments such as healthcare, financial services, or legal.
• Ability to influence product and engineering roadmaps through structured field feedback.

Why Join Dialpad

• Work at the center of the AI transformation in business communications
• Build and ship agentic AI products that are redefining how companies operate
• Join a team where AI amplifies every employee’s impact
• Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and real opportunities for growth

We believe in investing in our people. Dialpad offers competitive benefits and perks, cutting‑edge AI tools, and a robust training program that help you reach your full potential. We have designed our offices to be inclusive, offering a vibrant environment to cultivate collaboration and connection. Our exceptional culture, repeatedly recognized as a Great Place to Work , ensures that every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success.

Dialpad is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.