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 late 2021 or early 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.

What we are looking for:

Three Space Lab is seeking a Head of Design to develop and implement a bold and unified aesthetic vision for virtual and augmented 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. They should also have experience with leadership and managing others' work. The candidate may initially perform most practical tasks on their own, although this aspect of their role will be reduced as their team is grown in the coming weeks, months, and years. The candidate will have significant influence over hiring decisions for their team and will establish the work practices and culture of this team over time.

Responsibilities:

• Conception and implementation of a unified design vision for 3SL's VR and AR applications
• Collaboration with the development team
• Design and creation of 3D assets for real-time rendering (including texturing, normal mapping, etc.)
• Prototyping and creation of interactive assets for VR applications
• Managing and growing 3SL's design team

Top Priority Attributes:

• Bachelor's degree in art and/or design (or equivalent work experience)
• Familiarity with industry-grade modeling tools such as Blender or Maya
• Experience creating interactive assets for VR applications
• Experience with UX design
• Experience leading design teams working on 3D and/or VR assets
• Shader design and development (HLSL, ShaderGraph, etc

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 and include a profit-sharing program.

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.