Senior Product Design Lead, Volley
$200.3-201k
May Telecommute
3+ days a week in office
Voice AI games
Be an early applicant
Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200.3-201k
May Telecommute
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- Master’s (or foreign educ. equiv.) Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Human-Computer
- Interaction, Computer Science, or related field plus one (1) year of experience in the job offered or related
Desirable
- Conducting competitor analysis and developing user personas using Xcode, Unity, React, and Android Studio
- Performing market research using focus groups, user interviews, and surveys
- Conducting user research using observation, interviews, field study, contextual inquiry, and user journey mapping
- Defining user flows using Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Miro, and Figma
- Designing interactive mockups using Figma, Framer, JavaScript, React, Siri Shortcuts, Xcode, and Android Studio
- Designing visual assets for mobile applications using Sketch, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator
- Creating multiple-state animation for mobile applications using Lottie, After Effects, Unity, and Rive
- Contributing code-level support using Xcode, Android Studio, CSS, React, and Unity
What the job involves
- Perform market research, user research, and competitor analysis through development of user personas, interviews, observation, field studies, surveys, contextual inquiries, focus groups, and other user study
- Methodologies using Xcode, Unity, React, and Android Studio
- Create and define the user journey, conduct affinity diagram, and host brainstorming to idealize the best practice for TV gaming experiences using Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Miro, and Figma
- Design user interaction to match user insights, technology feasibility, and business needs
- Use wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes to communicate how users play voice interaction games on TV and mobile
- Create high-fidelity and pixel-perfect TV game visual assets using Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Designer, Blender, etc
- Define meaningful multi-state animation and transitions for TV voice games by using Rive, Lottie, After Effects, Unity, and other animation creation tools
- Design voice interaction prototypes to demonstrate designs, help iterations, and validate ideas using Figma, Framer, JavaScript, React, Siri Shortcuts, Xcode, Android Studio, Apple Shortcuts, React, BrightScript,
- And other prototyping tools
- Validate product usability by conducting user testing, card sorting, interviews, A/B testing, surveys, etc
- Conduct pixel reviews, follow up product metrics, discover potential problems, and propose meaningful solutions
- Understand technology stacks and tools and provide code-level contributions, like defining animation in BrightScript, identifying UI components limitations, pulling projects from GitHub to verify UI specs, etc
- Mentor other product design peers, including Level 1 to 3 Product Designers, on conducting design critique, feedback, and iteration using Figma and Miro, and providing code-level support using Xcode, Android Studio, CSS, React, and Unity
- 40 hours per week; M-F
Our take
Volley is carving a niche in the gaming industry by developing voice-enabled games. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Volley provides a gaming experience where players interact with games purely through voice commands.
The success of Volley's games underscores its appeal across diverse demographics, with over 5M people playing its games monthly. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI in gaming, Volley continues to push boundaries by enhancing its AI technologies.
This feat hasn't gone unnoticed by investors, with the company recently securing substantial funding. This infusion of capital will fuel the creation of new voice-controlled games and expand its portfolio to captivate new customers.
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Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision plans are fully covered by Volley for both employees and dependents
- Reimbursements for One Medical memberships
- 16 paid holidays
- 4 week vacation, with a 2 week minimum
- Parental Leave: 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parent, 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parent
- 40 hours bereavement leave per year
- Unlimited sick days
- Up to 8 weeks unpaid leave per year
- 4 weeks remote work per year
- Up to $250 per month for commuting (Lyft, BART, muni, gas, parking, etc). You may also use this towards WFH supplies
- Lunch in office M, T, W, & F
- $150 a month to cover Thursday lunches/lunches for other days you are not in the office. For permenetly remote employees, the stipend is $250
- $500 per year to help you grow your career
- You will recieve a Macbook Pro (or computer of your choice) upon starting
- Matched 401k plan through Guideline
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Child
(CEO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia where they served as an iOS Developer. They also worked at The Infatuation as a Writer and iOS Developer.
James Wilsterman
(CTO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia. Prior to that, they were a Senior Analyst at First Manhattan Consulting Group.
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