
Product Experience
- Responsible for translating user and buyer persona needs into magically useful user experiences
- Responsible for designing highly usable and exciting software experiences
- Responsible for stewarding and prioritizing user/customer requirements and user stories
- Responsible for collaborating across functional groups, creative and production vendors to ensure alignment of CX/UX goals, patterns and assets across groups
- Responsible for designing user experience flows and working with developers
- Responsible for designing low, medium and high fidelity interactive prototypes
- Responsible for testing new user experience designs with target users and iterative methods
- Comfortable and able to design solutions at the front end of innovation thru to commercial launch
- Responsible for establishing and maintaining design systems and patterns across applications
- Responsible for quality control of final deliverables
Requirements:
- Located near, or willing to relocate to, either Santa Barbara, California or Toronto, Ontario – Canada
- Master’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Portfolio of NUI/Visual and User Experience Work (interactive, games, wearables, ar/vr applications)
- Startup & Entrepreneurial experience
- 3+ years in a senior design role within a 25+ person design firm or consumer product company
- Experience designing for international users (culture, markets, design, psychology)
- Successfully shipped and supported mobile apps that grew to 1,000,000+ users
- Have shipped commercial NUI software embedded with wearable or other consumer electronics
- Experience designing CX/UX for integrated systems and consumer electronics
- Familiarity with Bluetooth services, connected devices and controllers. Experience preferred
- Experience designing solutions for iOS, Android and other embedded systems
- Experience with dynamic systems and technologies including JSON, various cloud services, Unity, and sensors/IoT.
Job Benefits:
- Central downtown Santa Barbara or downtown Toronto location
- Easy access to transit, dining, entertainment
- Work in a friendly and very team-oriented, collaborative culture
- Fantastic perks that come along with being a member at ImpactHub Santa Barbara or Workhaus Toronto
- Opportunities to see your work directly making a social impact in the world
- Flexible mobile working arrangements available for high performers
- Company events and ongoing learning opportunities
- Paid Federal holidays and earned vacation days
- Incentive Stock Options Plan for high performers
- Growing business with offices in Canada and USA
- Medical, Dental and life insurance benefits
- International Travel opportunities