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UI/UX Designer, Pikmin Bloom

5 Days ago • 5 Years + • UI/UX Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Niantic Labs seeks an experienced UX Designer for Pikmin Bloom to design intuitive UI, create interaction flows, and guide product direction. Responsibilities include creating user interactions, design systems, wireframes, and interface designs. The role involves brainstorming creative solutions, collaborating with engineers, product managers, researchers, and artists, mentoring other designers, and working in a fast-paced hybrid environment. Experience with location services for mobile apps/games and strong communication skills (especially in Japanese) are crucial. The successful candidate will help merge virtual and real-world experiences in a fun and engaging way for Pikmin Bloom players.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of experience
  • Mobile app interaction design portfolio
  • Wireframe creation based on product specs
  • Strong visual design & Figma skills
  • Functional prototype creation
  • Location services experience
  • Excellent communication (Japanese)
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
Good to have:
  • English language ability

Job Details

Niantic Labs, creator of Ingress and Pokémon GO, is seeking an experienced UX Designer to help shape ground breaking, highly social experiences and innovative apps that move people through the real world. We’re a fast-moving, multi-disciplinary team of software developers and creative professionals based. You will be responsible for designing intuitive UI, creating interaction flows, and helping guide the direction of the products to merge the virtual with the real world and to encourage players to experience adventures on foot.

Responsibilities

  • Create user interactions, design systems, UX flow wireframes, and interface designs for Pikmin Bloom. Brainstorm ideas, narratives and create prototypes to help find creative solutions to Niantic’s unique set of design challenges involving the real world.
  • Collaborate closely with cross functional peers of engineers, product managers, user researchers, and artists to build fun and exciting real-world experiences.
  • Mentor other UX Designers and help develop a strong player-centered mentality.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
  • Required in-office 3 days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience.
  • Portfolio of work showcasing samples of interaction design for mobile applications.
  • Ability to create interaction flow wireframes based on high-level product spec.
  • Strong visual design skills and Figma experience.
  • Ability to create visual/functional prototypes to test design ideas.
  • Experience with location services for mobile applications or games.
  • Strong communication skills with cross functional members and leadership.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese. English language ability is a plus.
  • 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 synchronous interactions with others.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich. 

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