PolyAI careers, counted on PolyAI’s own Greenhouse board on 1 November 2026, come to exactly one open role: a Senior Marketing Manager for EMEA, based in the United Kingdom. The same board listed 20 openings in November 2025 and 13 in July 2026. The Agent Designer track, the one role family open to non engineers, has no live posting today.
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On this page: PolyAI’s Greenhouse board counted on 1 November 2026 against three archived captures back to November 2025, the archived Agent Designer requirements and pay as listed, and three dated interview accounts from Glassdoor.
Think you already know this? Five questions, one minute.
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1. How many open roles did PolyAI’s own Greenhouse board list on 1 November 2026?
We read PolyAI’s Greenhouse board on 1 November 2026 and it listed one role, Senior Marketing Manager, EMEA, based in the United Kingdom. Read the section
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2. How many jobs did the archived capture of the board show on 8 November 2025?
The 8 November 2025 capture listed 20 jobs; the July 2026 capture had 13 and the October 2026 capture had 2. Read the section
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3. What level of Python did the archived Agent Designer posting ask for?
The archived Canada posting, captured 19 May 2026, listed foundational Python and said new graduates were welcome. Read the section
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4. How long did the candidate hired in March 2026 say the process took?
On Glassdoor’s Agent Designer interview page the March 2026 account reports five weeks: a recruiter screen, four interviews and a take home assignment. Read the section
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5. When did PolyAI announce its 86 million dollar Series D?
PolyAI’s announcement is dated 17 December 2025 and names Georgian, Hedosophia and Khosla Ventures as co leads. Read the section
How many PolyAI careers are open right now?
One. We read PolyAI’s Greenhouse board on 1 November 2026 and it listed a single opening, Senior Marketing Manager, EMEA, in the Marketing department, location United Kingdom, last updated on 20 October 2026. The careers page at poly.ai, which pulls from the same board, showed the same count in its own filters: 1 open position, one department, one location. The posting asks for someone to own field events, campaigns and webinars for enterprise buyers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which is to say it is a senior marketing job, not a way into AI.
That matters because of what people searching for PolyAI careers usually want. PolyAI builds voice agents that answer phone calls for hotels, banks and restaurants, and for most of the past two years its board carried a role with no engineering requirement, first called Dialogue Designer and later Agent Designer. On 1 November 2026 there is no such posting. If a course advert or a Telegram recruiter is offering you a shortcut into a PolyAI designer job this week, they are selling a seat on a bus that is not at the stop.
If you came here for work rather than for one company, the free getAIwork board screens AI work listings across platforms and needs no signup. Its stats file, updated 31 October 2026, counted 1,792 live listings, 623 of them remote.
How has PolyAI’s job board changed over the past year?
Greenhouse boards keep no history, but the Internet Archive does. We read captures of the same board from 8 November 2025, 15 July 2026 and 13 October 2026, and compared them with the live board on 1 November 2026. The counts went 20, 13, 2, 1. The table groups the postings by team, using the department label PolyAI gave each one.
| Team on PolyAI’s board | 8 Nov 2025 | 15 Jul 2026 | 13 Oct 2026 | 1 Nov 2026 |
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| Engineering and AI deployment | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sales, business development and customer success | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Marketing, brand and product marketing | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Dialogue or Agent Design and language roles | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Product, finance, operations and other | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 20 | 13 | 2 | 1 |
Reading across the row for sales tells most of the story. The November 2025 board was a growth board: seven Enterprise Account Executive postings from Minneapolis to London, eight engineering roles and one Dialogue Designer, which had to be based in the US. By July 2026 engineering was down to two Forward Deployed AI Engineer postings, and the one non engineering opening was a UK based contract for a Flemish and Dutch Language Specialist. By October the whole board was a six month field marketing contract and a business development manager. We could not retrieve the April 2026 capture, the archive rate limited us three times, so the spring is a gap in the record.
What the table cannot tell you is why. A small board can mean a hiring pause, a shift to referrals and agencies, or roles that simply filled. PolyAI has published nothing we could find that explains it, so we are not going to explain it for them. What it does tell you is that a page promising dozens of PolyAI openings is describing a board from a different year. For comparison, Kore.ai, another enterprise voice agent company, listed six roles on its own job board on 7 November 2026, three of them voice platform and security jobs in Hyderabad.
What is the Agent Designer track and who can apply?
Agent Designer is PolyAI’s title for the person who decides what the voice agent says, builds it in PolyAI’s own Agent Studio with some Python, and then listens to real callers to find out where it goes wrong. The live postings are gone, but the Internet Archive kept a copy of the Canada posting, captured on 19 May 2026, and it is unusually candid about who it wanted. It said the role was suitable for people looking to start their career and that new graduates were welcome. Here is what it listed.
| Archived Canada posting, captured 19 May 2026 | What it listed |
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| Minimum: degree | BS or MS in Interaction Design, Linguistics, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science or a related field |
| Minimum: coding | Foundational Python: variables, lists, loops, conditionals and functions |
| Minimum: AI | Experience working with large language models and generative AI |
| Minimum: craft | Meticulous attention to user experience, clear and inclusive language, conversational and UX copy |
| Nice to have | Analytics or data science aptitude, stakeholder management, previous conversation design, cross functional teamwork |
| Pay as listed | 80,000 to 90,000 Canadian dollars a year depending on level and experience, plus equity |
| Location and sponsorship | Canada; permanent work authorisation required, no sponsorship now or in the future |
Two things in that posting deserve a plain reading. The pay band was described by PolyAI as a guide, not a guarantee, it is as listed on a posting captured on 19 May 2026 that has since closed, and rates change. And the application form asked two blunt questions before anything else: whether you had prior Python experience and would feel confident using it, and whether you could work in Canada permanently without sponsorship, adding that holders of temporary permits should answer no. So the honest translation of no technical background required is no engineering degree required. A degree of some kind and basic Python were on the list.
Job aggregators also carry copies of a US Agent Designer posting from May 2026 and a Senior Agent Design Engineer posting at a higher band. We could not read a primary copy of either, the original addresses now redirect to the one job board, so we treat the US titles and figures as unverified and leave them out. If you want to know which AI roles actually take a first timer this month, the getAIwork match quiz sorts the live listings by background in about two minutes.
What the archived Agent Designer posting listed
Tick what you already have. This restates the requirements on the Canada posting captured on 19 May 2026; that posting is closed and this list predicts nothing about any application.
Taken from the posting as archived. Check the live Greenhouse board before applying, since each new posting sets its own requirements.
What do Agent Designer candidates report about the interviews?
Glassdoor’s PolyAI Agent Designer interview page, updated 6 May 2026, collects five candidate reports, rates the experience very positive on average, and says half the candidates got the interview through an employee referral. We could read three of the five before Glassdoor asked us to sign in; the four Dialogue Designer reports sit behind the same wall. These are what candidates report, not anything PolyAI has confirmed.
- March 2026, accepted the offer: applied through a referral and the process took five weeks. A recruiter screen, an interview with the hiring manager, a week to complete a take home design assignment, two technical interviews, one on basic Python and one on design, then a final conversation with a senior leader. The candidate found everyone friendly and the format clear from the start.
- January 2026, London, accepted the offer: applied online, four weeks, rated the interviews difficult but each stage was explained in advance. One question they were asked: what is the difference between designing a chatbot and a voice bot?
- January 2026, no offer: a referral and an HR screen about background and education, then a promised email to schedule the next round that never arrived.
Where the accounts agree with the posting: Python is tested, lightly, and design is tested with a take home task. Where they add something the posting never said: budget four to five weeks, and two of the three readable accounts came in through a referral. The one negative account is about silence rather than rejection, which anyone who has applied anywhere will recognise. Three accounts is a small sample and we have said so.
Why do job sites still show PolyAI roles the board has closed?
Because aggregators copy a posting once and rarely take it down. On 1 November 2026 the Greenhouse addresses for both the Canada and US Agent Designer postings redirected to the board’s single marketing job, yet copies on job aggregator sites still presented the roles as open. Headcount trackers disagree too. TrueUp puts PolyAI’s team growth at about 22 percent over the past year with no known layoffs, other trackers print different totals, and none of them is a company statement, so treat every one as an estimate. Yellow.ai, another conversational AI company, shows the same pattern: on 5 November 2026 its own board listed one role while job sites still served copies years old, as our count of Yellow.ai careers against third party listings shows.
The practical rule is dull and reliable: before applying to any PolyAI role you find on a job site, open the Greenhouse board and check it is there. If it is not on the board, it is not open, whatever the aggregator says. And anyone asking for a fee to fast track an application to a job that does not exist is doing something other than recruiting.
Is PolyAI still growing, and will the board refill?
PolyAI announced an 86 million dollar Series D on 17 December 2025, co led by Georgian, Hedosophia and Khosla Ventures, with NVentures, British Business Bank, Citi Ventures, Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures and Point72 Ventures also named. The announcement says the round lets PolyAI drive its mission forward at an entirely new scale, and it contains no sentence about hiring or headcount. A company with fresh capital and a one job board is an odd pairing, and we will not guess at the reason.
What we can say is that the board carried a designer role for most of two years, and that the Greenhouse page has a free job alert that emails you when a posting goes up. That costs nothing and beats refreshing an aggregator.
Where is voice AI work for non engineers listed right now?
Not at PolyAI this week, so here is what the board data shows elsewhere. The getAIwork stats file, updated 31 October 2026, counted 1,792 live listings, of which 240 are tagged Beginner level. The Language field held 132 listings with listed hourly pay running from 20 dollars at the 25th percentile to a 30 dollar median and 65 dollars at the 75th, aggregated from the figures posters listed on that date. Another 39 listings are tagged Voice and Video. Those are listed figures, not what anyone is paid, and rates change without notice.
For the routes this site has already read posting by posting: the Smith.ai receptionist role is voice work open to beginners in the US and Mexico; Otter.ai’s board is engineering heavy with one remote exception; Cohere’s contract route sits beside its salaried roles; and our guides to AI jobs with no experience and part time AI jobs cover what each kind of listing actually asks for. If you would rather have a shortlist than a reading list, the getAIwork match quiz takes your background and points at the live listings that fit it.
Frequently asked questions
Does PolyAI hire remote workers?
Within a country, usually yes. The careers page says work where you want, the one open role on 1 November 2026 is based in the United Kingdom, and the archived Agent Designer posting required permanent work authorisation in Canada. Fully global remote hiring is not what the postings describe.
Does PolyAI sponsor visas for Agent Designers?
The archived Canada posting captured on 19 May 2026 said PolyAI could not provide sponsorship now or in the future and asked temporary permit holders to answer no. Other postings may differ, so read the application questions on each one.
Do I need to code to be a PolyAI Agent Designer?
Some. The posting asked for foundational Python, meaning variables, lists, loops, conditionals and functions, and candidates on Glassdoor in 2026 reported a basic Python interview alongside a design take home.
What did the PolyAI Agent Designer posting pay?
As listed on the archived Canada posting captured on 19 May 2026, 80,000 to 90,000 Canadian dollars a year depending on level and experience, plus equity, described by PolyAI as a guide rather than a guarantee. The posting has closed and rates change.
Where does PolyAI post its jobs?
On its Greenhouse board at job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/polyai, which also feeds the openings shown on poly.ai/careers. Copies on job aggregators lag behind the board and still showed closed Agent Designer roles on 1 November 2026.
Is PolyAI an employer or a gig platform?
An employer. PolyAI is a London based company that announced an 86 million dollar Series D on 17 December 2025 and hires salaried staff through Greenhouse. It does not run a task marketplace, and nobody pays to apply.
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