Product Designer, Pocket Worlds
Metaverse firm
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Metaverse firm
21-100 employees
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21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower creativity and connection in a digital world.
Role
Who you are
- A portfolio that speaks for itself: impeccable visual craft, clear thinking behind every decision, and fundamentals strong enough that they need no explanation
- One of two profiles: an early-career designer whose talent and rate of growth are impossible to ignore, or an experienced designer who has shipped world-class product design at scale. We care about the quality of the work, not the length of the résumé
- Real taste, backed by rigor: a strong user-centered point of view, and the research and reasoning to defend it
- The ability to produce exceptional work fast. Speed and quality are both non-negotiable
- Fluency in Figma and modern design tooling. Comfort with AI-assisted workflows is a plus. Whatever gets you to the best result, fastest, as long as the taste and final decisions are yours
- A complete ownership mentality. You find the problems worth solving, you drive the work forward, and you make everyone around you sharper
- A genuine love of games, social products, or virtual worlds is a strong plus. Our best work comes from people who understand why players care
What the job involves
- We're looking for an exceptional product designer to shape how millions of people experience play and friendship every day
- We don't hire on years of experience
- We hire on the work
- This role fits two kinds of people: a junior designer with rare talent whose portfolio already outclasses most seniors, or a seasoned designer with a stellar track record shipping products used by millions
- Either way, the bar on fundamentals is the same: typography, hierarchy, spacing, color, interaction
- These can't be faked, and they're the first thing we look at
- You'll own design problems end to end: from understanding the player and the problem, through flows and wireframes, to polished, production-ready UI that ships
- You're not handing off to the next person in the pipeline
- You're seeing it through to the moment it lands in players' hands, and then you're watching how it lands
- We ship fast, we iterate on live feedback from one of the most engaged communities in gaming, and we hold everything we release to a standard our players can feel
- This is a high-output, high-accountability, and high-reward role
- If that excites you instead of intimidating you, that's the energy we're looking for
- Own design work end to end: research, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final polished UI. Shipped, not just mocked
- Design experiences around play, self-expression, and friendship that feel effortless to millions of players across a deep, complex product
- Build on and strengthen our design system: establish patterns where they don't exist, and hold the line on consistency where they do
- Back your decisions with evidence: player interviews, usage data, and a sharp study of the best products in and outside of gaming
- Iterate relentlessly on live feedback. You care how the work performs in players' hands, not just how it looks in Figma
Our take
The popularity of virtual worlds is on the rise, with immersive gaming and social experiences more accessible than ever. As the parent company of Highrise and Everskies, Pocket Worlds designs and builds metaverse communities to bring people together in new ways.
Through Highrise, it offers a virtual world where people make avatars and create relationships. Impressively, this has now amassed over 40 million users. The company's 2021 acquisition of Everskies, a pixel doll community, added a new world to its offering.
Moving forwards, Pocket Worlds has continued to launch new capabilities to serve its users. For example, Highrise Studio and Highrise 4.0 were introduced to make it easier for creators to build and monetize virtual experiences.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2021
$7m
EARLY VC
Oct 2018
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $10.2m
Company benefits
- Work anytime: This isn’t your typical 9-5 — they give you full permission to hop online whenever works for you
- Work anywhere: They have a team that spans the globe, so you have the ability to work from wherever speaks to you
- Training and Education Budget: Keep building your skillset with an annual reimbursement of up to $1,000 for programs, certifications, and learning materials
- Team Building Budget: Get to know your teammates with a monthly event and activity stipend of $25 per person
- Fitness Allowance: Stay active with a $50 monthly reimbursement for your gym membership, yoga studio membership, or whatever gets you moving
- Coworking Space Stipend: Choose a coworking space in your city that works for you and we’ll foot the bill
- Family Leave: Receive up to 2 months 100% paid time off during your first year of parenthood (after 6 months of employment)
- Annual Retreat: Join all fulltime employees on a unique jettsetting adventure every 9-12 months to brainstorm and meet face-to-face
Company HQ
Galindo, Austin, TX
Leadership
Anton Bernstein
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Luxury Escapes and Lookingo, serving here as CEO. Served as CEO for Smartbox and sat on the Investment Team for Redpoint Ventures and Insight Venture Partners.
Jimmy Xu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously served as a Design Engineer for Apple. Experience as a Research Assistant at the University of Washington.
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