Synthetic Personality Designer - AI & Digital Characters

About the Role

De Art is looking for a Synthetic Personality Designer skilled in creating unique, credible, and consistent personality profiles for AI-driven entities such as digital humans and virtual personas. The role demands a multidisciplinary approach that fuses character design, psychology, storytelling, behavioral science, and artificial intelligence. The chosen candidate will collaborate closely with AI developers, artists, writers, and performance experts to craft engaging and reusable personality frameworks tailored for interactive digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive personality frameworks for AI characters and digital avatars.
• Establish defining traits including values, motivations, goals, fears, strengths, weaknesses, and behavioral tendencies.
• Ensure personality coherence across diverse interactions, platforms, and extended user engagements.
• Construct detailed character narratives, histories, interpersonal relationships, and worldviews.
• Design conversational styles accentuating vocabulary, tone, emotional expression, and communication habits.
• Convert creative and psychological insights into structured models for implementation by AI teams.
• Specify character responses to varied emotional, social, and situational triggers.
• Create behavioral decision models and interaction guidelines aligned with AI functionality.
• Work alongside writers and dialogue experts to maintain authenticity in character dialogue.
• Collaborate with AI engineers and conversational designers to translate personality concepts into prompts, frameworks, and evaluation standards.
• Develop variants of personalities adaptable to different audience segments and use cases.
• Analyze AI interactions to identify inconsistencies or deviations from intended personalities.
• Design testing scenarios to assess consistency, emotional realism, and behavioral accuracy.
• Contribute to projects in entertainment, education, virtual production, gaming, cultural initiatives, and other interactive media.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation ensuring personality continuity throughout development cycles.
• Investigate cutting-edge methods in AI character creation, synthetic identity formation, and behavioral AI.

Desired Qualifications and Experience

• Academic background in Psychology, Character Design, Creative Writing, Performing Arts, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Game Design, AI, Communication, or related disciplines.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in character development, narrative or behavioral design, conversational AI, or digital interactive media.
• Deep understanding of personality theory, motivation, emotions, human behavior, and social interactions.
• Proven capability to create distinct and psychologically coherent characters, fictional or digital.
• Strong storytelling and character-building expertise that transcends basic descriptions.
• Excellent skills in writing dialogue, character voice development, and behavioral documentation.
• Familiarity with generative AI, conversational AI, large language models, or AI-powered character systems.
• Ability to translate imaginative concepts into actionable frameworks usable by technical development teams.
• Experience designing adaptive character behaviors for varied emotional and situational contexts.
• Keen analytical skills to detect behavioral inconsistencies and personality shifts.
• Collaborative nature with experience working in interdisciplinary groups.
• Ability to balance creativity with consistency, usability, and technical limitations.
• Fluency in English; knowledge of additional languages is advantageous.
• Strong portfolio showcasing character design, narrative building, personality systems, interactive or conversational AI projects is preferred.

Benefits and Opportunities

• Chance to shape the future of AI character personalities and digital human interaction.
• Work in a multidisciplinary team including AI experts, writers, artists, and performers.
• Influence on how synthetic beings communicate and establish relationships with users.
• Access to advanced technologies in AI, digital humans, and interactive character development.
• Creative leadership in character identity and behavior design.
• Engagement with innovative projects across entertainment, culture, education, and immersive technologies.
• Professional growth in AI character design, behavioral modeling, and synthetic media.
• A collaborative environment merging psychology, storytelling, technology, and performance arts.