VR Designer - HTC Vive
HTC Vive is seeking a VR designer with experience in 3D visualization to work on XR projects. If you’re interested in UX design, visual design, VR/AR/XR, and working in 3D space to create innovative experiences, view the job and apply here.
HTC Creative Labs
HTC Creative Labs is a global team of designers, artists, engineers, and researchers that delivers design strategy and incubates new products and experiences for the HTC portfolio. This team is responsible for much of HTC’s most significant design work over the past decade. Our current focus is on creating next-generation XR software and hardware experiences for the HTC VIVE brand. Our process relies on the collaboration of exceptionally talented individuals to create products that offer functional benefits and emotional resonance to our target audiences.
About Your Next Opportunity
We’re looking for a driven, self-starting VR Designer with 2-5 years of experience who can contribute to Creative Labs’ mission of delivering the XR computing platform of the future. You will contribute to bringing an innovative XR vision to life by creating, crafting, and communicating user experiences that are natural, clear, and intuitive.
Job Responsibilities
Explore, investigate, kick-off, and communicate experience design initiatives based on UX/UI needs.
Contribute to the creation of new interaction patterns for XR
Accurately judge level of effort for individual design contributions while tracking design related issues
Design, build, and test interactive prototypes to iterate and evolve your design concepts
Deliver detailed information architecture, interaction, and visual design specifications to product teams
Manage design deliverables and relationships with HTC's planning and engineering teams
Collaborate with design leads to develop scenarios and inspiring storyboards to communicate design concepts to team members, cross-functional teams, and executives
Contribute to an evolving design culture and process at HTC's UX Design team group and throughout HTC's worldwide design organization
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Abilities)
2+ years of interaction design and visual design experience in XR (VR/AR)
BA/BS degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Computer-related Design, HCI, Human Factors, or a closely related field
Experience shipping multiple products from concept to creation
Experience contributing to the day-to-day UX/UI deliverables for UX projects. Working knowledge of full end-to-end user-centered design processes, techniques, and deliverables
Experience working with and influencing a multi-disciplinary team of visual designers, UX designers, researchers, planners, engineers, business development, product planning, and sales
Knowledge of formal visual design and composition principles, and a working knowledge of Interaction Design and Information Architecture
Strong communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
Ability to self-start and self-manage on projects. Proven track record of on-time, high-quality deliverables for projects
Expert knowledge in design interaction and prototyping tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, etc.)
Portfolio demonstrating excellent product experience design skills
Passion for XR technology, UX, and visual design disciplines
Ability to travel quarterly to Taipei, Taiwan to collaborate with product groups
Is a team player
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills and Abilities)
3D skills are a huge plus. (Unity, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unreal
We should get to know each other if you:
Love putting yourself in our customer's point-of-view, understanding and seamlessly adapting your designs to their needs while evolving the UX/UI demands of company initiatives.
Love thinking outside-the-box of traditional design, know how to meet exacting deadlines, work within a tight-knit team to communicate and drive the UX Product Design pipeline.
Are passionate about user experience and visual design, and can help guide and inspire the team to stay fresh and relevant with our processes, tools, and solutions, helping shape our design studio culture. You will work closely with other design, art, and technical disciplines within Creative Labs to deliver the XR computing platform of the future.
HTC is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at our company. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and encourage people from all walks of life to apply without regard to race, color, ancestry, sex, national origin, citizenship, genetics, marital status, veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status or characteristic protected by law. HTC does not tolerate discrimination or harassment at any point during our employees’ and applicants’ time with us, including with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, leaves of absence, and general treatment during employment.