Interaction Designer - Maternity Cover

Job Description

Technicolor Creative Studios is the division with Technicolor, which contains Technicolor's world-leading Visual effects and Animation brands such as MPC, Mr. X, The Mill, and Mikros.

Technicolor's brands have worked on the spectacular scenes and tiny details that make movies, advertising campaigns and Animation movies genuinely mind-blowing. We're the people behind the effects in countless blockbuster films like The Lion King, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and advertising campaigns for clients such as Samsung, Audi, Nike and Apple. We are continually looking for the best talent globally, enthusiastic people who come in every day to be a part of some of the industry's best work.

Technicolor's artists are wildly creative, uber-talented and passionate about the possibilities of VFX, Experiential, Animation and Technology. When you join the team, you'll be working with and learning from the most skilled people in the business.

Technicolor Production Services is the division that contains our world-leading Visual effects and Animation brands such as MPC, Mr X, The Mill, and Mikros. Key to the success of our division and its brands is winning the war on talent through acquiring and growing a community where artistry meets technology.

ABOUT MILL EXPERIENCE

The Mill Experience is The Mill's Immersive Experience Studio. We pioneer storytelling at the forefront of immersive technology.

We are world renowned visual storytellers - master crafters of simulated, elevated and extended realities. For over 30 years we have led the evolution of computer graphics from the linear stories of the screen to real-time fantasies in virtual spaces and incredible interactions in real places, perfecting our interactive craft in step with emerging real-time technologies.

With our global team of world class artists and creative technologists we work across the range of immersive Experiences: Location-based, Augmented and Virtual.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Mill Experience Studio is looking for a senior digital designer who is at the forefront of interaction design and art direction for immersive storytelling. With a strong knowledge of UX and customer behavior, you will be able to design beautiful and highly engaging interfaces for virtual, location-based and mixed reality experiences. The future is spatial, whether in digital, physical or hybrid realities, you are experienced in designing within these spaces. You are creative and ambitious in driving your craft to the highest industry standards, you have gained public recognition with awards in your field and are considered to be a trend leader.

This is a 6 month fixed term contract with the view to extend and/or with a possible view to a permanent role.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Collaborate with Creative Directors, UX Designers, Strategists, Storytellers and Creative Technologists to critically drive concepts to the highest quality.
• Be the lead designer on production projects, consolidating the creative director's vision with the client's feedback and add your own senior perspective to ensure that all work delivered is critical and to the highest possible standard.
• Present your designs directly to clients, articulating and defending your design rationale to both internal stakeholders and clients.
• Follow best practices and human-centric design practices to design emotional experiences for brands to build lasting memories with their audiences.
• Craft efficient mockups and visualizations of concepts during the pitch phase of a project. Working together with other creatives to build beautiful, on-brand and captivating decks in google slides.
• Captivating pitch decks are all about storytelling, and your role is a pivotal part in immersing our clients in the creative experiences we are proposing to craft. Animated interface designs that come to life through gifs in deck will be one of the formats.
• Bring together references, build moodboards and sketches at the initial stage of a pitch. Working together as a team to build a clear response structure from the creative vision.
• Work closely with our Experience Director and UX Designers on Figma through a collaborative process during both production and pitches.
• Attend standups and team tissue sessions to collectively solve problems and drive a pitch or project forward both conceptually, visually and from an experience perspective.
• Assist or assign front-end build production (guides, slicing, layout, etc.), in addition to providing technical feedback to development team via bug tickets.
• Create interactive prototypes for client workshop sessions and presentation.
• Mentor and lead more junior designers visualizing concepts with a strong leadership in art direction and in line with the creative vision.
• Attend conferences, talks and events to feed your curiosity and bring knowledge back to your team to keep everyone at the forefront of new discipline trends.
• Research and share work from within the industry with the Experience Department to build general awareness on work that is outstanding and trend setting.

@Stephan Bischof should this be UI? [LB1]

no, that's correct, since they will need to understand UX to make meaningful UI decisions. I think. [SB2]

Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS
• 6+ years experience in a studio environment.
• Design – Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, Illustrator, etc. You should be good with all aspects: layout, typography, colour, photoshop comps, visual research etc.
• Motion Design to express the emotional atmospheres of initial concepts or to guide developers. Ideally you are comfortable working in After Effects and Cinema4D.
• Strong communication skills with clients and your team.
• Organized and have a clear overview of the tasks at hand.
• An understanding of UX and CX. Basic user flows and wireframing.
• Experienced in interface designing for AR, VR, MR and XR.
• Knowledge of 3D can be a big plus!
• Strong sense of humour, we always want fun teammates.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqb081-18-189-2-122-42 in your application.