Interaction Designer

We are looking for a Senior Interaction Designer who is part designer, part design researcher, and part prototyper. You must be able to explore, conceptualize, and communicate new experiences that have never been conceived or even possible . We are looking for experiences spanning across hardware, software and the environment. Design is at the heart of what we’re doing, creating societal robots for point to point mobility which will deeply impact urban dynamics.

What You’ll Do:

• Work with product managers and other designers to understand and define the problem space.
• Research areas that will help inform and guide designs.
• Understand behaviors, needs, context of users as well as human factors, and people’s mental and psychological qualities to build experiences.
• Conceptualize new interactions and experiences.
• Bring early concepts to life through moodboards, storyboarding, brainstorming, user scenarios and concept sketches.
• Prototype and test your hypotheses and designs.
• Communicate your ideas clearly.
• Push the boundaries of current technology to create new possibilities.
• Collaborate with engineers to bring your designs to life.
• Translate designs into engineering and business requirement.

• Be able to see the big picture, but pay attention to fine details.
• Be highly ambitious, self-directed, and organized.
• 6+ years of industry experience; expertise in human factors, humancomputer interaction, humanrobot interaction, or ergonomics.
• Have reference projects demonstrating systems thinking across a variety of formats such as voice, audio, touch, gesture interactions, websites, apps, interactive spaces, etc…
• Have experience designing and shipping consumer products.
• Have experience with design/prototyping software such as InDesign, Illustrator, Keynote, InVision, Balsamiq, etc.
• Be passionate about exploring emerging technologies

Zoox is developing fully autonomous vehicles and the supporting ecosystem required to bring the technology to market at scale. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments. We believe the transition to self-driving vehicles requires a combination of elegant vision and uncompromising execution.

You will be joining a diverse group of industry leaders and makers, where team success is as important as profound individual contributions. If you are excited about solving difficult problems and the opportunity to help define what an autonomous vehicle can be, we want to hear from you!