UI/UX Designer (Virtual + Augmented Reality)

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Job Description

Three Space Lab (3SL) is an early-stage MIT Media Lab spin-off company working on mixed reality software solutions for team collaboration and learning. The current portfolio of projects is divided between these two areas, while sharing a common infrastructure across all of them. On the education side, we make tools and content for middle school, high school, and university-level learning, with an emphasis on STEM. Our approach is centered around interactive spatial visualization and simulation. On the team collaboration side, we are building a product that we plan to release in summer of 2022. Past company projects have focused on electricity and magnetism, crystal structures, 3D scanning, and tools for collaborative visual design.

We are math and physics geeks with an artsy side (dance, drawing, music), and we welcome people of any gender, race, ethnicity, color, ability, class, religion, culture, or nationality. We believe that working with people who have diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds enhances our ideas, enriches our lives as individuals and as a team, and is invaluable for understanding how we can best have a positive impact.

Three Space Lab is seeking a UI/UX Designer collaboratively envision and implement innovative interfaces for mixed reality products related to team collaboration and learning. The ideal candidate should have experience with 3D and immersive interaction design, along with the related asset pipelines, including dynamic, algorithmic representations for UI elements. The ability to maintain design consistency across a portfolio of related projects is essential. Candidates should also be enthusiastic about sharing their process and design rationale with other team members.

Responsibilities:
  • Facilitate development of a unified UI/UX system for 3SL's VR and AR applications
  • Prototyping and creation of interactive assets for VR applications in collaboration with other development team members

Top Priority Attributes:
  • Bachelor's degree in art and/or design (or equivalent work experience)
  • Experience with UI/UX design
  • Skilled at communicating their design rationales, responding to and integrating feedback
  • Experience creating interactive assets for VR applications
  • Familiarity with industry-grade modeling tools such as Blender or Maya
  • Experience working with design teams on 3D and/or VR assets

To apply, please submit:
  • CV/Resume with link to online portfolio, if possible
  • Cover letter (optional)

We are open to a fully remote team model. Special places for us are Cambridge, MA and Berlin, Germany,

Benefits: Salary and benefits are competitive.

At Three Space lab, we don't just accept difference—we celebrate and support it. Not only because it's the right thing to do, but because we draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced, and how we think to make Three Space Lab thrive. Three Space Lab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.