Job Description
What are we looking for in our UX Designer V?Title: UX Designer V
Location: Remote (Denver, CO, New York, NY, Houston, TX, Los Angeles, CA, and San Diego, CA
Type: Contract (6 Months)
On the Avatars team, our mission is to connect people across realities with personal, meaningful social presence. Similar to your profile in the early days of Social Media, Avatars will increasingly be the digital identity that represents people when they interact with others, unlocking new social experiences as we move to a world of mixed reality enabled by AR/VR over the next decade.
Our pillar is focused on Avatar experiences:
How you create & personalize and engage with your avatar in an effortless and delightful way across FOA (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp) and VR.
How you can use avatars as a medium for expression: avatar stickers (static and animated), memes, dances and UGC studio tool that enables people to create unique & personalized expressions.
Our vision is that people are in complete control of their virtual identity in the metaverse, with a suite of intuitive, capable and delightful tools that they can access across their metaverse journey, anytime and any place. Our team mission is to build and organize the capabilities of avatar creation and customization and make them available across Metaverse experiences. We’ll do this by articulating the landscape of editing use cases and capabilities that connect to people’s metaverse journey, building an editor platform that supports these needs, and working with clients to implement the experiences on top of this platform as a cohesive experience.
We're looking for a designer who isn't afraid to jump in and explore the new challenges of considering immersive experiences with 3D elements in 2D platforms like our Family of Apps (FB, IG, MSG & WA). You will get to work closely with Technical Artists and Animators to find the right embedded experiences and interaction patterns. You’ll work on new and exciting use cases like how do we define your virtual identity, and what is the most delightful way to customize it, how we maximize self representation in your Avatar.
Who is the audience/primary user/consumer we’re designing for?
Our Avatar Editor is a central product across all our Family of App partners in Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Whatsapp, so your audience is vast but for early adoption we will be focusing our product more for Teenage and Young adult groups
Experience Needed
Stand out strengths needed:
Drive clarity of plan, strategy and vision on key company priorities with product managers, engineers, researchers and content strategists
Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams
Work collaboratively with Product, Research and Engineering partners from concept through completion and future iterations
Own the end-to-end design (interaction, visual, etc.) across multiple features and projects
Provide implementation guidance to engineers and ensure features launch at the highest quality
Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies
Unique skills/experience needed:
Strong interaction and 2D prototyping skills
Strong craft and visual design
Nice to have - experience designing for 3D and immersive medium
Nice to have - Experience working with products with Teenage/ Young Adult audiences
Nice to have - Experience working with 3D Artists, Animators and Technical Artists
Nice to have - Experience designing products for virtual, augmented, mixed reality and/or other emerging technologies
Non negotiable skills/experience:
Experience to think at a high level about product strategy and vision to defining an MVP experience / feature set
Experience approaching design problems systematically, that considers holistic experiences and strategic principles
Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders such as User Research, Engineering, and Product Management and thrives in collaboration
Comments for Suppliers:
Additional Information
Top 3 must-have HARD skills:
Experience to think at a high level about product strategy and vision to defining an MVP experience / feature set
Experience approaching design problems systematically, that considers holistic experiences and strategic principles
Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders such as User Research, Engineering, and Product Management and thrives in collaboration
Good to have skills:
Strong interaction and 2D prototyping skills
Strong craft and visual design
Nice to have - experience designing for 3D and immersive medium
Nice to have - Experience working with products with Teenage/ Young Adult audiences
Nice to have - Experience working with 3D Artists, Animators and Technical Artists
Nice to have - Experience designing products for virtual, augmented, mixed reality and/or other emerging technologies
Avatar Creation experience on FB, IG, WA and MSGR
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:
At Reality Labs, we bring together the brightest cross-disciplinary minds in one place to deliver our mission: build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere. Developers, researchers, engineers and designers all working together to help build a more expansive – and more inclusive – future for all of us.
As a Product Designer, you’ll be responsible for defining, designing, researching, prototyping, and implementing new features as well as future iterations of how people create their Avatars, their digital representation in the Metaverse. You will contribute to how we define our future vision and how we step towards it.
We're looking for a designer who isn't afraid to jump in and explore the new challenges of considering immersive experiences with 3D elements in 2D platforms like our Family of Apps (FB, IG, MSG & WA). You will get to work closely with Technical Artists and Animators to find the right embedded experiences and interaction patterns. You’ll work on new and exciting use cases like how do we define your virtual identity, and what is the most delightful way to customize it, how we maximize self representation in your Avatar.
Typical Day in the Role:
Collaborate with the design and XFN team on the top priorities for avatar editor. Attend the design crits and design reviews.
How will performance be measured:
High quality execution on the given priorities and alignment with XFN
Rate/Salary: 110-117/hr