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Volley is seeking a Senior Product Design Lead to drive the design of AI-powered games for various platforms, including Amazon Alexa, Roku TVs, and mobile devices. This role involves comprehensive user and market research, defining user journeys, and designing intuitive user interactions. Responsibilities include creating high-fidelity visual assets, defining animations, and developing voice interaction prototypes. The lead will also validate product usability, conduct pixel reviews, contribute code-level support, and mentor junior designers. Volley, a rapidly growing team, is headquartered in San Francisco and focuses on creating joyful games with evolving AI technology.

<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800"><strong>What You’ll Do at Volley</strong></h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">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.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">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.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Design user interaction to match user insights, technology feasibility, and business needs.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Use wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes to communicate how users play voice interaction games on TV and mobile.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Create high-fidelity and pixel-perfect TV game visual assets using Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Designer, Blender, etc.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Define meaningful multi-state animation and transitions for TV voice games by using Rive, Lottie, After Effects, Unity, and other animation creation tools.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">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.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Validate product usability by conducting user testing, card sorting, interviews, A/B testing, surveys, etc.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Conduct pixel reviews, follow up product metrics, discover potential problems, and propose meaningful solutions.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">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.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">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.</li></ul><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">May Telecommute</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800"><strong>Minimum Requirements</strong></h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">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.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800"><strong>Special Skill Requirements</strong></h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Conducting competitor analysis and developing user personas using Xcode, Unity, React, and Android Studio.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Performing market research using focus groups, user interviews, and surveys.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Conducting user research using observation, interviews, field study, contextual inquiry, and user journey mapping.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Defining user flows using Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Miro, and Figma.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Designing interactive mockups using Figma, Framer, JavaScript, React, Siri Shortcuts, Xcode, and Android Studio.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Designing visual assets for mobile applications using Sketch, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Creating multiple-state animation for mobile applications using Lottie, After Effects, Unity, and Rive.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Contributing code-level support using Xcode, Android Studio, CSS, React, and Unity.</li></ul><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">For Pay Transparency: The base salary range for this position is $200,304.00 - $201,000.00 per annum. annually, based on a local (San Francisco) hire. The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800"><strong>About Us</strong></h3><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><a href="https://www.volleythat.com/" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Volley</a> is the leading developer of AI-powered games for Amazon Alexa, Roku TVs, and mobile devices. Our games attract millions of users every month. Popular Volley games include </em>Song Quiz<em>, </em>Jeopardy!<em>, and </em>The Price Is Right_.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.”</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. We're headquartered in downtown San Francisco in the historic Phelan Building! We’re a quickly growing team that truly enjoys working together. If you think you would enjoy creating joyful games on top of a rapidly evolving AI technology stack, please get in touch! #LI-DNI</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><em>Volley believes in an inclusive workplace and is committed to building a team from a variety of backgrounds. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive the other benefits and privileges of employment.</em></p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><em>Underrepresented candidates and candidates from nontraditional backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply!</em></p>

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