Avatar Experience Manager
De Art · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Apply & track with Apply EdgeThe successful candidate will lead the development of coherent avatar experiences across visual, conversational, emotional, behavioral, and interactive dimensions.This is a hands-on role working closely with character designers, AI specialists, conversational designers, writers, animators, developers, performance teams, and UX professionals to ensure that avatars feel believable, expressive, responsive, consistent, and appropriate to their roles and contexts. The role combines experience design, character development, human-AI interaction, storytelling, psychology, and real-time interactive technologies.ResponsibilitiesLead the overall experience strategy for avatars representing AI characters, digital humans, virtual humans, and interactive digital identities.Define how users should perceive, understand, communicate with, and emotionally engage with avatars across different experiences and environments.Translate character concepts, personalities, narratives, user needs, and product requirements into coherent avatar experience strategies.Design and maintain avatar experience frameworks covering presence, personality, communication, behavior, emotion, appearance, movement, voice, and interaction.Develop user journeys, interaction scenarios, experience maps, behavioral flows, and use cases for avatar-based experiences.Define how avatars initiate, maintain, redirect, and conclude interactions with users in natural and contextually appropriate ways.Design interaction patterns for conversational, visual, emotional, social, educational, entertainment, and immersive avatar experiences.Work with conversational designers and AI specialists to ensure that dialogue, personality, memory, and AI-generated behavior support the intended avatar experience.Define appropriate relationships between an avatar's personality, narrative background, role, visual identity, voice, facial expression, body language, and behavior.Coordinate the integration of facial expressions, gaze, gestures, posture, movement, voice, and conversational behavior into a unified experience.Develop guidelines for emotional expression, social presence, turn-taking, attention, responsiveness, timing, and interaction continuity.Evaluate how avatars respond to user emotions, intentions, misunderstandings, unexpected inputs, ambiguity, and changes in context.Design strategies for creating believable social presence and maintaining consistency during short and long-term interactions.Work with AI trainers and character specialists to identify behavioral inconsistencies, personality drift, unnatural responses, and experience breakdowns.Collaborate with animation, performance capture, voice, and technical teams to connect avatar behavior with expressive physical performance.Ensure consistency between the avatar's intended character identity and its actual conversational, visual, emotional, and physical behavior.Oversee user testing and experience evaluation to identify confusion, discomfort, unrealistic behavior, trust issues, usability problems, and engagement barriers.Develop evaluation criteria and experience-quality standards for avatar realism, responsiveness, emotional intelligence, consistency, and user engagement.Analyze user feedback, interaction data, qualitative research, and behavioral observations to continuously improve avatar experiences.Coordinate avatar experiences across different platforms, devices, real-time environments, and interaction modalities.Work with UX/UI teams to ensure that the avatar experience is integrated naturally into the broader user experience.Support the development of immersive and interactive experiences involving avatars in virtual environments, games, educational applications, simulations, social experiences, and digital spaces.Explore emerging technologies including conversational AI, multimodal AI, generative AI, real-time rendering, voice technologies, facial animation, motion capture, XR, and virtual production.Research human-computer interaction, psychology, social interaction, storytelling, digital identity, and emerging practices in human-AI relationships.Establish scalable methodologies, documentation, experience guidelines, and design standards for future avatar projects.Coordinate multidisciplinary reviews and ensure that experience decisions remain aligned across creative, technical, narrative, and AI development teams.QualificationsMinimum BA/MA in Interaction Design, UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Digital Media, Game Design, Narrative Design, Communication Design, AI, or a related field.At least 3–5 years of professional experience in UX, interaction design, character experience, conversational design, digital products, interactive media, games, virtual environments, or a closely related field.Demonstrable experience designing user-centered interactive experiences involving complex characters, interfaces, conversational systems, or digital environments.Strong understanding of human behavior, communication, emotional expression, social interaction, and user experience principles.Strong understanding of character development, personality, narrative identity, dialogue, and behavioral consistency.Experience designing conversational experiences, AI interfaces, conversational agents, chatbots, large language model applications, or AI-powered interactive systems.Familiarity with AI characters, digital humans, virtual humans, avatars, virtual production, real-time 3D, immersive environments, or interactive storytelling.Experience creating user journeys, interaction flows, scenarios, experience maps, behavioral models, prototypes, and experience guidelines.Understanding of multimodal interaction involving text, voice, facial expression, gaze, gesture, body movement, and visual interfaces.Ability to evaluate the quality of AI-generated conversations and identify issues related to personality, emotional response, context, memory, consistency, and social behavior.Familiarity with tools such as Figma, FigJam, Miro, Unreal Engine, Unity, MetaHuman, or comparable design and real-time development environments.Understanding of animation, facial performance, motion capture, voice performance, and real-time character behavior is an advantage.Strong ability to translate abstract concepts such as personality, emotion, presence, trust, identity, and social interaction into concrete experience requirements.Strong analytical, observational, and problem-solving skills.Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across creative, technical, AI, narrative, and production teams.Ability to manage multiple experience initiatives and maintain consistency across different avatar projects.Strong interest in emerging technologies and new forms of human-AI interaction.Portfolio demonstrating relevant UX, interaction, conversational, character, immersive, AI, or digital-human experience projects.Fluency in English.What We OfferThe opportunity to shape the experience layer of next-generation AI characters, avatars, digital humans, and virtual humans.A highly interdisciplinary environment combining AI, UX, psychology, storytelling, character design, animation, performance, and real-time technology.The opportunity to develop new approaches to digital presence, personality, social interaction, and human-AI relationships.Close collaboration with specialists across AI, software, character development, narrative, animation, performance, and immersive technologies.The opportunity to influence how avatars communicate, behave, express emotion, build trust, and interact with people.Access to emerging technologies and experimental approaches to interactive digital characters.Significant creative and strategic ownership over the experience design of avatar-based systems.Professional development through research, experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and development of new avatar experience methodologies.How to ApplyPlease submit the following to farhang@parsikia.ir with subject line “Avatar Experience Manager — AI Characters & Digital Humans”:1.CV (max 2 pages)1.Cover letter (1 page) describing your relevant experience in avatar, digital human, UX, interaction, conversational, or character experience design and why you are interested in this role.1.Portfolio or links to 3 relevant projects demonstrating experience in interactive characters, AI experiences, digital humans, avatars, conversational systems, immersive experiences, or related fields.1.Two references (name, role, contact)Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview and asked to complete a brief practical assignment involving the design or evaluation of an avatar experience, including user journey, interaction scenarios, behavioral principles, and experience guidelines.We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and encourage cross-disciplinary practitioners with strong combinations of creative, technical, UX, narrative, psychological, and AI experience to apply.