Werkstudent / in (m/w/d) - Product Management (Berlin)
Werkstudent / in (m/w/d) - Product Management
Office Location: Berlin, Germany (Friedrichstraße 76, 10117 Berlin)
Compensation: €20/hour
Target term dates: 27 March 2023 - 29 March 2024
SoundHound Inc. builds voice AI products that make it easier for people to engage with the world around them. We do this by creating custom voice experiences that make it possible for companies to extend their brand in new and meaningful ways. Today, our voice AI platform and technologies allow people to talk to phones, cars, smart speakers, mobile apps, coffee machines, and every other part of the emerging ‘voice-first’ world.
This is a unique opportunity for software product design-focused students to both learn and innovate within a global software engineering team building leading voice and conversational user interfaces. We seek a candidate who is a forward thinker and who has significant personal experience using voice interfaces. You will represent the needs of voice users while also incorporating product goals and customer requirements in your designs and solutions. Your empathy and creative problem-solving abilities will be essential. Your work will directly contribute to a revolution in the way people interact with the devices around them: by speaking naturally.
In this role, you will be helping to shape products and voice interfaces similar to those shown in these videos:
You will gain exposure to all aspects of voice product development - realized by using the most advanced technologies in the fields of Natural Language Understanding, Speech, Search, and AI, all built in-house here at SoundHound over the past 10 years.
Our diverse team of engineers, UX/UI designers, writers, data scientists and linguists are all passionate about creating a world with more conversations. With more than a decade of expertise in voice technology, we have hundreds of millions of end users, and a worldwide team spanning six countries building solutions for a voice-first world.
About You:
- Your dream job involves designing voice interfaces and experiences that improve the lives of millions of users every day.
- You are user-centric, able to see the many different ways and contexts in which your ideas will be applied, and design accordingly.
- You are obsessed with perfecting user experience. Removing friction and improving ease of use bring you joy.
- You appreciate the richness of humanity's spoken languages and the inherent challenges and opportunities this brings to voice interfaces.
- You are a fast learner with excellent design intuition who can quickly understand and incorporate evolving requirements.
Requirements:
- Prior product design experiences incorporating voice, natural language understanding, or similar related technologies
- Prior product design experiences which span different types of devices / interfaces / displays (e.g. mobile, smart speaker, desktop, etc.)
- Strong English language communication skills (verbal and written)
- You are pursuing a Bachelors, Masters, or similar degree focused on software product design, human computer interfaces, or user experience design.
Nice to Haves:
- Fluent in additional languages such as: German, Spanish, French, Italian, etc.
- You have familiarity with how AI can be applied to Natural Language Understanding and Natural Language Generation challenges
- You have experience collaborating with globally distributed colleagues
- You have experience with visual design tools (e.g. Figma)
- You have experience with one or more scripting languages (e.g. Python)