About STRIVR

At the intersection of technology, science, business, and sports, Strivr offers the leading VR-based immersive learning platform that is changing the way employees train, learn, and perform. With a vision to elevate performance through immersive experience, we are redefining an industry and shaping the future of workforce development.

Strivr was founded in 2015 out of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, using the football field as our proving ground. Since then, we have expanded from the athlete to the enterprise, partnering with leading Fortune 1000 companies including Bank of America, MGM Resorts, Sprouts, Verizon, and Walmart to innovate and elevate employee learning and development at scale.

More than just content inside a headset, Immersive Learning is a groundbreaking training methodology that combines the sense of presence in Virtual Reality with advanced learning theory, data science, and spatial design. It provides realistic, high-impact experiences driven by best practices across L&D, instructional design, immersive content development, data science, product design, and user experience. As the leading VR-based Immersive Learning solution for enterprises on the market today, Strivr’s platform enables the deployment of VR training at scale while serving as the bridge to the connected immersive worlds of tomorrow.

Recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies three years in a row, a ‘Major Player’ by IDC in Soft Skills VR Training, and awarded by leading L&D analyst firm Brandon Hall, we take pride in our passion for innovation and use that energy to fuel our work. Our culture thrives on dignity, inclusion, accountability, transparency, and teamwork. We celebrate every win and learn from every loss. With a customer-focused mindset, we embrace continuous evolution and look forward to growing our team as we lead the industry forward!

About this role

You will work as the support arm of our Game, Instructional, UI, and HCI designers to build robust projects for iteration of features, interaction methods, UI layouts, and app design.

With your robust understanding of Unity, and strong programming knowledge, you will become familiar with our technical systems to anticipate engineering’s needs and design projects complimentary to our infrastructure.

Your responsibilities

• Work with our game designer to build out fully fleshed experiences, primarily but not always limited to Unity.
• Build and iterate in a tight loop with a variety of stakeholders across Design, Solutions, Sales, CG, and Product.
• Once ideal design is achieved, work with Engineering to identify what an optimal integration would look like, and communicate design’s goals and needs.
• Maintain good communication with Engineering and Product, in order to understand their roadmap, acting as a close collaborator with their group.
• Assess technical impact of design on multiple VR headset devices
• Define optimal art asset backup and version control as new production methods are developed.

Requirements

What you bring

• Understanding of the design process
• Exposure to UX and user testing
• Hands-on learner; able to learn a system by interacting with it and seeking the answers to questions from technical stakeholders
• High communication skills; capable of breaking down end user’s goals in a way that can be understood by a variety of audiences

Software

• Expert understanding of Unity / C#
• Expert understanding of version control software
• Understanding of WebGL and various tools to support
• Visual Studio

Preferred

• System Architecture mindset - understand the systems and how they interrelate
• Future Proofing - design in a way that programming features can be swapped out easily at a later date

• Android / Java
• Pymel / MEL
• Exposure to Maya

Benefits

The annual compensation range for this position is $140,000-$160,000. The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.

Benefits offered for this position include 90% employer-paid healthcare for employee and dependents (medical, dental, vision); 401K with 50% employer match (up to 4%); open PTO policy; 16-week parental leave; basic life insurance, AD&D, and short-term disability.

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