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Voice AI Lead (Fixed-Term 6 Months)

Oura · Hybrid - San Francisco, California · Hybrid

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About Oura

Enhance your health journey with Oura. The Oura Ring provides round-the-clock insights into sleep, fitness, and stress for wellness. Now HSA/FSA eligible. Backed by ICONIQ.

About the role

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Partner with Audio Design and Content Design to shape Voice direction and translate it into persona, voice identity, design principles, and actionable briefs
  • Develop voice design prompts and guidance for tone, pacing, prosody, expressivity, pronunciation, and context-appropriate vocal delivery
  • Audition vendor voice models and design voice performance through scripts, pronunciation rules, and model settings, listen to and refine results across contexts and devices
  • Partner with Content Design and Engineering to refine conversational behavior, including turn-taking, interruptions, mishearing, repair, and knowing when not to speak
  • Establish voice quality criteria and review methods covering delivery, pronunciation, accessibility, safety, and intelligibility
  • Partner with Legal, Privacy, and AI/ML on responsible AI voice guidelines
More about this role

Our mission at ŌURA is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.

Oura is seeking a Voice AI Lead to shape our Voice vision and turn it into experiences members can hear, trust, and use.Working within Audio Design, you’ll partner with Content Design, Engineering, and Product to define, implement, and scale Voice AI experiences across Oura. You will identify opportunities, prototype features, guide implementation, and build initial design, production, and evaluation practices that teams can reuse. You will also evaluate vendor voice models and recommend the right fit for Oura, balancing...

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