UX Designer, Niantic
Pokémon GO
$120.6-174k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Open for applications
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$120.6-174k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years or equivalent experience in UX design for consumer-facing products, with a portfolio of shipped features/titles and personal projects
- Portfolio of work showcasing examples of consumer-facing mobile UX, covering both interaction and UI design
- Experience working on gaming and non-gaming products
- Experience with wireframing and prototyping in Figma collaboratively, using shared design libraries and patterns
- Familiarity with mobile UX design patterns applied in gaming, fitness, or live-service applications
- Strong visual design, motion design, and UI art skills
- Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to develop novel UX patterns as needed
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others
Desirable
- You can implement and manipulate UI in Unity
- You have Japanese language proficiency
What the job involves
- The Pokémon GO team is looking for a well-rounded Senior UX Designer to help us deliver the next wave of experiences for our players.
- Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll partner closely with peers across game design, art, product, and engineering teams to champion the best interests of our broad player base through the design of intuitive, engaging, and usable game UX
- We’re looking for someone who is a strong voice for the player, applying both intuition and data-informed research to drive creative solutions for existing and new experiences.
- We value adept storytellers, that can translate complex use cases into simple, scalable designs that can be implemented by the team.
- You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and can help teams shift and re-focus efforts as needed
- Lead UX design efforts from concept to implementation for multiple key projects
- Develop mockups, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design documentation to clearly describe interaction flows and design concepts
- Clearly communicate UX designs to internal and external partners
- Lead team rituals to conceptualize and brainstorm new features
- Improve and extend existing UI design system patterns and brand guidelines
- Partner with user research to incorporate player insights throughout the development process, including leading user studies as needed
- Proactively make contributions towards UX team rituals and process improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and partners, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
- Required in-office min 2 days, on Wednesday and Thursday
Our take
Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long term and short term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare on-demand by Spring Health
- Increasing paid time off with tenure, separate sick time accrual, five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- 16 weeks of parental leave for parents, parental leave transition assistance by Cleo, Carrot fertility benefit
- 401k Match, equity options, compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Cold breakfast, hot lunch and snacks all day, every day
- Cell-phone, gym, and internet reimbursements, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee discounts via Fond
- Employee donation match of up to $500 per year
- Wellness activities including yoga and meditation, volunteer off-sites, employee Resource Groups
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
Phil Keslin
(CTO)Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.
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