UI/UX Designer [Mobile]

About Pocket Worlds

Our mission is to make the metaverse a reality and our vision is a decentralized virtual world built and owned by its citizens.

We have been working towards this mission for a decade. We are the creators of Highrise, the first virtual world on mobile, which has seen extraordinary growth over the last few years and now boasts over 20 million users across iOS and Android. Every day, the citizens of Highrise come together to hangout, explore, create, collect, and trade digital assets in our metaverse, and this has all flourished despite the constraints of Web 2.0.

This was only the first chapter in our story, and we are on the precipice of making history once again with Web3 and Highrise World.

About This Role

We are growing and looking for a skilled and enthusiastic UI/UX Designer with some (or a lot of) experience in creating user-centered designs.

We are looking for a passionate designer excited to make the world both more accessible and fun. You will be working to construct delightful user experiences around play and friendships.

This role, along with our entire company, is fully remote.

As UI/UX Designer you will...:

• Work closely with Senior Product Designer on Highrise
• Create delightful user-centered experiences by building and adhering to established design patterns.
• Generate mockups, wireframes and polished visual designs.
• Make your own schedule, effectively estimate tasks and deliver on time.
• Establish, maintain and follow consistent internal design guidelines for UI/UX.
• Survey other applications to understand what does and doesn’t work.
• Conduct customer interviews when necessary to collect feedback and understand user requirements.

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to be…:

• Experienced_:_ _ _You have 1+ year's experience designing and building product experiences for end-users and ideally you have shipped design for a product used by many people.
• User-centric: _   _You have a strong user-centered approach when making design decisions, and you back those decisions with user research.
• Open-minded_:_  You’re very open to feedback and trying new things.
• Hard-working : You have an "above and beyond" work ethic driven by a desire to grow and succeed.
• Skilled Written Communicator _ :  _Highrise is 100% remote, which means writing is our primary means of communication. You'll use written summaries and reports to explain decisions.
• Know your tools_:_ _ _You have some experience working with design tools like Figma.
• Meticulous:  You have a strong attention to detail when it comes to design guidelines and consistency.

Within 3 months, you'll…:

• Work with Highrise's Product designer to deliver attractive user interfaces.
• Support the Product designer to create mock-ups.
• Assist in the production of concept sketches, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Independently gather and evaluate user requirements.
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems.

Within 6 months, you'll...:

• Independently contribute to Highrise's UI design style guide.
• Take ownership of designing graphic user interface elements.
• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback.

Closing

Our goal is to define the future of the metaverse with the product we build, and to grow from tens of millions to billions of users in the process.

Join us on this journey and together we will build something incredible.