Conversational Character Designer

Job Title: Conversational Character Designer — AI Characters & Virtual Humans (1 Position)About the JobWe are seeking a creative, psychologically aware, and detail-oriented Conversational Character Designer to design the conversational identity, dialogue behavior, personality, and interaction patterns of AI characters, digital humans, virtual humans, and interactive avatars.The successful candidate will transform character concepts into rich and believable conversational personalities that can communicate naturally across different contexts, emotional states, and user interactions. This role combines character design, dialogue writing, narrative thinking, conversational UX, psychology, and artificial intelligence to create characters that feel distinctive, coherent, responsive, and emotionally credible.This is a highly collaborative role working closely with AI specialists, writers, character designers, AI trainers, narrative designers, developers, animators, performance specialists, and creative directors to establish how virtual characters speak, listen, react, remember, express personality, handle uncertainty, and build relationships with users.ResponsibilitiesDesign the conversational identity and communication style of AI characters, digital humans, virtual humans, and interactive avatars.Translate character concepts, backgrounds, motivations, personalities, and narrative roles into distinctive conversational behaviors.Develop detailed conversational character profiles covering voice, tone, vocabulary, humor, emotional range, communication patterns, attitudes, values, preferences, and behavioral boundaries.Create character-specific dialogue systems, conversation frameworks, interaction patterns, and scenario libraries.Define how characters should initiate, maintain, redirect, and conclude conversations in different contexts.Write dialogue examples that demonstrate authentic character voice across casual, professional, emotional, narrative, and interactive situations.Design conversational behaviors for different emotional states, including excitement, curiosity, uncertainty, frustration, empathy, surprise, hesitation, confidence, and disagreement.Develop guidelines for how characters respond to user emotions, misunderstandings, sensitive situations, unexpected questions, and ambiguous requests.Design character-specific approaches to humor, storytelling, questioning, explanation, persuasion, disagreement, and emotional support.Create conversational scenarios that reveal personality through dialogue rather than relying only on explicit character descriptions.Design long-form conversational arcs in which characters maintain personality, relationships, goals, and contextual continuity over time.Define how characters should remember, reference, and use information from previous interactions when memory capabilities are available.Design relationship dynamics between AI characters and users, as well as between multiple virtual characters.Develop conversational patterns for character-to-character interactions, including cooperation, conflict, negotiation, friendship, rivalry, mentorship, and other relationship structures.Collaborate with writers and narrative teams to ensure that dialogue remains consistent with character history, world-building, story logic, and narrative objectives.Work with AI trainers and AI specialists to convert conversational design requirements into structured training examples, evaluation scenarios, prompts, behavioral rules, and testing criteria.Review AI-generated conversations and identify deviations from intended character identity, tone, personality, emotional behavior, or narrative consistency.Provide precise recommendations for improving conversational naturalness, character consistency, emotional credibility, and user engagement.Design edge cases and challenging conversational situations to test how characters behave outside standard scenarios.Evaluate conversational pacing, turn-taking, question handling, topic transitions, repetition, ambiguity, and contextual awareness.Collaborate with voice, animation, and performance teams to ensure that conversational behavior can be effectively translated into voice, facial expression, gesture, body language, and digital performance.Help define how conversational intent should influence non-verbal character behavior, including gaze, facial expression, posture, gestures, and timing.Design conversational experiences for real-time and interactive AI characters where responses may influence animation, behavior, narrative progression, or user experience.Participate in user testing, conversational playtesting, character evaluations, and iterative refinement.Develop standards and evaluation frameworks for assessing whether an AI character feels distinctive, believable, consistent, emotionally appropriate, and engaging.Document conversational principles, character rules, scenario libraries, dialogue examples, and design decisions for use by creative and technical teams.Research emerging approaches in conversational AI, character AI, social interaction, narrative systems, AI agents, virtual humans, and interactive storytelling.Contribute to scalable conversational design methodologies that can be applied across multiple AI characters with different personalities, roles, and narrative purposes.QualificationsMinimum BA/MA in Creative Writing, Screenwriting, Theatre, Film, Linguistics, Psychology, Interaction Design, Game Design, Narrative Design, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Media, or a related field; equivalent professional experience will also be considered.At least 3–5 years of professional experience in dialogue design, character design, narrative design, conversational UX, interactive storytelling, game writing, AI character development, or a closely related discipline.Demonstrable ability to create distinctive and psychologically coherent fictional personalities.Exceptional dialogue-writing skills with a strong understanding of subtext, voice, tone, rhythm, pacing, character motivation, and conversational dynamics.Strong understanding of character development, narrative structure, personality, emotional behavior, and human communication.Experience designing dialogue systems, conversational flows, interactive narratives, game characters, virtual assistants, AI characters, or digital humans.Familiarity with large language models (LLMs), conversational AI, AI agents, prompt design, system instructions, or character-conditioning techniques.Understanding of how conversational design interacts with AI training, behavioral systems, memory, context management, and evaluation.Experience creating character bibles, dialogue guides, conversation maps, scenario libraries, or similar design documentation.Strong ability to analyze AI-generated conversations and identify subtle problems in personality, tone, logic, emotional response, context, and character consistency.Understanding of conversational UX and human-computer interaction is highly desirable.Experience with interactive storytelling, games, virtual worlds, digital humans, avatars, or real-time character systems is an asset.Familiarity with multimodal AI, voice AI, facial animation, motion capture, or digital performance is highly desirable.Strong collaboration skills with writers, AI engineers, developers, animators, character artists, performers, designers, and creative directors.Excellent communication, storytelling, analytical, and documentation skills.Strong attention to detail and sensitivity to subtle differences in language, personality, emotional expression, and social behavior.Ability to balance creative freedom with defined character rules, narrative requirements, and technical constraints.Portfolio, writing samples, dialogue samples, character bibles, interactive projects, or links to 3 relevant projects demonstrating conversational or character design experience.Fluency in English; additional languages are an asset.What We OfferThe opportunity to design the conversational identities of next-generation AI characters, digital humans, and virtual characters.A highly interdisciplinary environment connecting artificial intelligence, storytelling, psychology, writing, performance, animation, and interactive technology.The opportunity to develop new approaches to believable AI personalities and human-like digital conversations.Collaboration with AI specialists, writers, character designers, animators, performers, developers, and creative directors.Exposure to advanced conversational AI, multimodal AI, digital human, real-time character, and interactive storytelling technologies.The opportunity to influence how AI characters communicate, develop relationships, express personality, and participate in interactive narratives.Professional development and opportunities to contribute to innovative international AI and digital character projects.How to ApplyPlease submit the following to farhang@parsikia.ir with subject line “Conversational Character Designer — AI Characters & Virtual Humans”:1.CV (max 2 pages)2.Cover letter (1 page) describing relevant experience and your approach to designing believable conversational characters.3.Portfolio, writing samples, or links to 3 relevant projects demonstrating experience in conversational design, dialogue writing, character development, interactive storytelling, AI characters, or related work.4.Two references (name, role, contact)Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview and asked to complete a short practical conversational character design exercise. The exercise may involve developing a character profile, conversational identity, dialogue samples, behavioral guidelines, and several interaction scenarios for an AI character.We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and encourage cross-disciplinary practitioners with experience across writing, storytelling, psychology, linguistics, games, animation, performance, artificial intelligence, and interactive media to apply.