Voice AI Lead (Fixed-Term 6 Months)

Location: Hybrid, San Francisco, California, United States. The role is based out of the San Francisco office; candidates residing in Alaska, Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia, or Wisconsin are not considered.

Salary: $185,000–$200,000 per year for Region 1; pay varies by US location and is determined by skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal equity, and market conditions.

Company

hirify.global develops Oura Ring wearable devices and connected health applications that provide insights into readiness, activity, sleep quality, and healthy living.

What you will do

• Shape Voice direction, persona, voice identity, design principles, briefs, prompts, and guidance for tone, pacing, prosody, expressivity, pronunciation, and context-appropriate delivery.
• Audition vendor voice models and design voice performance through scripts, pronunciation rules, model settings, and iterative testing across contexts and devices.
• Refine conversational behavior with Content Design and Engineering, including turn-taking, interruptions, mishearing, repair, and decisions about when not to speak.
• Establish voice quality criteria and review methods covering delivery, pronunciation, accessibility, safety, intelligibility, and regression testing.
• Identify and prioritize Voice AI opportunities, translate design needs into requirements and acceptance criteria, and evaluate TTS and STS providers without owning platform architecture.
• Drive vendor, voice talent, asset, approval, localization, consent, usage-rights, AI-cloning-permission, and data-retention workflows with cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in relevant technologies.
• Working proficiency with Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and iZotope RX.
• Hands-on fluency with AI voice platforms, LLM tools, and prototyping and evaluation environments, including configuring models, iterating prompts, and comparing outputs.
• Experience independently leading complex voice or audio design initiatives from ambiguous problems through production and testing while managing priorities, dependencies, vendors, approvals, and quality.
• Experience translating voice identity into practical design standards and production assets for use by other teams.
• Familiarity with AI voice consent, likeness, cloning, training, data retention, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience evaluating voice models, conducting quality and regression testing, and working with voice or audio training-data workflows and human-in-the-loop operations.
• Technical fluency to translate creative and product needs into requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and work effectively with AI/ML and Engineering.
• Clear communication, sound judgment, cross-functional influence, tradeoff explanation, and experience sharing methods with others.
• Experience managing production or vendor budgets.
• Experience with wearables, hardware, health, or wellness products.
• Experience building asset libraries, content operations systems, evaluation programs, QA processes, dashboards, or regression workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work from the San Francisco office.
• Health, dental, vision, and mental health resources.
• An hirify.global Ring during the employment period.
• 20 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays, and 8 days of flexible wellness time off, prorated.
• Paid sick leave and an inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.