Also called: Chatbot Designer, Voice UX Designer
Designs how chatbots and voice assistants talk: their personality, flow, and what they say when they get confused.
You write and test sample conversations for a bank's AI assistant, tuning its tone to be helpful but not too chatty. Part writer, part UX designer, part linguist.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in linguistics, writing, psychology, or UX.
Ways in: 4-year college, Self-taught. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Linguistics, Cognitive Science, English, Human-Computer Interaction.
Growing faster than average. Growing with AI assistants.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. LLMs replaced scripted chatbot flows, so fewer people design dialogs line by line; voice, tone and testing stay human.
Classes: English, Psychology, Theater or creative writing.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1255.
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