Game Interaction Designer

Remote
High Fidelity, Inc.

Game Interaction Designer

At High Fidelity, we understand that recreating natural social interactions in a virtual environment poses significant design challenges, especially when users connect through a variety of devices and networks. We develop innovative solutions to foster meaningful connections and empower people to collaborate, engage, and socialize in ways that feel natural and intuitive.

Though we focus on the virtual office remote and hybrid work, we believe a Game Interaction Designer who has thought deeply about how characters navigate, explore and play within virtual spaces, as well as how they interact with objects and others in it, will have the best intuitions and approaches to create novel experiences for this use case. 

We are looking for an interaction designer who understands and embraces the plasticity of creating virtual environments with a strong emphasis on quality audio, who is not afraid of thinking beyond skeuomorphic designs that mimic the bad things of real offices, and who instead imagines the value that could be created if employees and spaces had augmented abilities not possible in the physical world. This is a temporary gig, we anticipate about 3 months, working approximately 30-40 hours per week.

If you are a passionate interaction designer, with experience implementing strong audio, we strongly encourage you to apply. A cover letter is welcome and encouraged to help us learn more about your experience and interest in the position. We look forward to hearing from you.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, and audio engineers, to design and prototype innovative interaction models for characters in a virtual space.

• Develop creative solutions for navigating and exploring conversation groups in a virtual environment using spatial audio, ensuring seamless and engaging user experiences.

• Design and iterate interaction models for users to join and participate in virtual table conversations, including seamless transitioning between tables and conversation groups.

• Design social games and activities that encourage interaction between virtual tables, fostering a sense of community and promoting user engagement.

• Create sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototypes (both digital and pen-and-paper) to communicate design concepts.

• Conduct user research and play testing to validate design concepts and iterate based on findings.

• Engage in internet gaming online communities like Reddit and Discord, where you can get early feedback on designs. 

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in virtual interaction design, AI, spatial audio, and social gaming to ensure our products remain innovative and competitive.

• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Game Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), UX or related field, or equivalent professional experience

• Minimum of 3 years of full-time experience in interaction design, game design, mobile game design (2D applications a plus!)

• Proven experience designing and prototyping innovative interaction models for virtual spaces or games.

• Strong understanding of spatial audio and its application in virtual environments and experience building it in your designs.

• Proficient in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Unity, Blender, Unreal, Godot, or similar.

• Experience conducting user research and play testing, with the ability to analyze and apply findings to design solutions.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think creatively and analytically.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams.

• Passion for creating engaging, immersive virtual experiences with strong audio and a keen interest in the future of social interactions in virtual spaces.

• Designed and built own game(s) a plus!

About Us

Founding Story

With the release of the Oculus and the promise of mass consumer-adoption of VR, High Fidelity set out to build the metaverse infrastructure that would support the next generation of user-generated virtual worlds and experiences. The company blazed trails for the digital worlds of tomorrow — including how these worlds will sound.

The Next Chapter

High Fidelity is more than our company name — it’s our credo. We have witnessed and experienced the transformational power of delivering high fidelity sound. We believe audio technologies should be designed for how the human brain is wired to process auditory information so people can feel as engaged with a digital experience as they would with a physical one. The portion of our lives that are spent wearing headphones should mirror the sonic richness we experience in the natural world.

Why Us?

If your team is too large, too slow, or more concerned with cutting costs than building cutting-edge technology, we might be exactly what you’re looking for. We’re a small, seasoned team that trusts one another to be the expert in their domain and who are relentless about getting the job at hand done. Together, our mission is to connect people with extraordinary digital audio.

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