Senior Product Design Lead

What You’ll Do at Volley

• 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.

May Telecommute

Minimum Requirements

• 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.

Special Skill Requirements

• 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.

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.

About Us

Volley 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 Song Quiz, Jeopardy!, and The Price Is Right_.

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.”

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

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.

Underrepresented candidates and candidates from nontraditional backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply!