UX/UI/Interaction Designer

Description

We're looking for people to join our growing team who:

• Seek out challenges and are comfortable with the unknown
• Thrive in fast-paced, innovative, creative environments
• Are expert communicators and collaborate well with others
• Take initiative to solve tough problems
• Are passionate about revolutionizing storytelling through virtual reality
• Most importantly, have got grit

As a UX/UI/Interaction designer at Within, you will be a prototyper that synthesizes design and development. You will take Within’s virtual reality product and project concepts and bring them to life through the creation of amazing, thoughtful user experiences. You have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UX/UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows that lead to beautiful, intuitive and functional VR interfaces. You will be part of the Within Design Team, which is a fast moving group of creatives, technologists, and engineers tasked with building the most immersive and user-friendly experiences and interfaces in VR today.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the creative director, creative senior staff, product management, and engineering team to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, interactive projects, visuals and overall experience
• Contribute to the overall vision and user strategy for our VR platform and VR projects from concept to execution
• Execute all visual design stages on our virtual reality, mobile, and web platforms from concept to final hand off to engineering
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks across all platform
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site-maps to effectively communicate design and interaction ideas across platforms
• Present and defend design decisions and key milestone deliverables to product and project stakeholders
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback across platforms
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards

Requirements

• Proven UX/UI experience
• A strong portfolio
• Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows and site maps
• Proficiency in design and wire-framing tools
• Proficiency in applications for rapid prototyping (very important)
• Excellent visual design skills
• Ability to present and sell your design ideas
• Ability to solve problems creatively
• Up-to-date with latest UX/UI trends, techniques, and technologies in the VR space
• Experience working in a design team

Optional, but a major plus

• Graphic Design / Production Design
• Programming
• 3D design and engineering tools
• Experience working at a start-up

You must have an online portfolio or PDF of your UX/UI work to apply for this position. Please include a link or an attachment with your application.