Opportunity with Google (NYC)

3D Designer for Virtual Reality (6-12 months contract)

Play a vital role in building out a new medium for computing and productivity. As a 3D Designer,  you’ll help create the future of Virtual Reality. You are a detailed-oriented 3D Designer who understands how form influences function, can create high-quality components helping the team bring life and motion to VR experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the overall vision and strategy for the VR team, from concept exploration through implementation, working closely with UX, Software Engineers and Product Managers to build designs

• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process by making compelling designs and concepts and expressing them in compelling visual and verbal ways:  create stories, sketches, wireframes, flow diagrams, models, 2D/3D mockups, interactive prototypes

• Execute design projects from concept to production, defining and achieving creative and technical requirements

• Create and evolve design while maintaining consistent interaction models, patterns and design language, when important to the UX.

• Focus on the user. Interpret and translate complex technologies into simple and beautiful products and user experiences.

• Help the team bring beauty, life, and motion to VR experiences:

  • Create high-quality components and UI geometry

  • Shader and rigging and animation setup

  • Visually tweaks on 3D meshes according to Art Direction

  • Create production-ready 3D assets

  • Implement 3D assets to production environment

  • Optimize according to performance requirements

• Create and contribute to a great design team culture. Stay inspired and inspire the people around you.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. graphic, interaction, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, or a related field or equivalent practical experience

• Expert with 3D design and engineering tools (e.g., Maya, Zbrush, Modo, Photoshop, Blender, Unity)

• Experienced with game engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine) and proficiency with Unity3D

• Ability to demonstrate a range of styles: high and low poly modeling, experience imagining and creating fantastical elements, without direct photo-reference

• Strong core design skills; ability to establish visual hierarchy, layout, typography, and color effectively

• Experience shipping consumer products, games and/or experiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong design portfolio of client or personal projects

• 3D animation, rigging experience, understanding of animation theory and technique

• Ability to quickly establish credibility with Engineers, Product Managers, Designers

• Thrive collaborating in multidisciplinary teams: research scientists, UI and 3D artists, interaction designers,, full-stack software and hardware engineers, marketing and business teams.

• Excited about VR!

Please send your resume and portfolio to darwiny@google.com and crossproduct@google.com