UI Designer

Company Overview

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments.

The Art and Design team at Red 6 defines systems to see and interpret the world around us. These systems synthesize and visualize synthetic reality into a hive mind of real-world knowledge. We are engineering, high performing and highly advanced augmented reality platforms and infrastructure, which support our military partners’ operations. This enables us to collaborate and train with the world’s most advanced military systems and develop our soldiers’ capabilities as the world’s most important line of defense.

The Role

As a UI Designer at Red 6, you will be responsible for concepting, creating, maintaining, and developing our user interfaces, defining the customer journey, and solving usability and experience challenges for government and commercial customers. You will take directions from our UI/UX Design Leads to create stunning, intuitive interface concepts and designs, and solve unique problems in a visual creative way.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience working in Art and Design, UI/UX, computer animation, psychology and human factors, or related field within a previous job, college or university setting.

• Ability to communicate across departments and teams, clearly and concisely.

• Be a great team player, experience in working with agile teams and the ability to collaborate with our UX designers.

• Minimum of 4+ years of hands-on experience with tools such as Figma, ProtoPie, Unreal or Unity Game Engine, or similar.

• Experience of 4+ with Adobe Creative Cloud software suite (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects skills are a must have skill).

• Demonstrable UI design skills across various platforms from touch screens to VR headsets.

• Ability to craft design documentation for developers and designers alike.

• Ability to incorporate feedback and take direction well.

• Competence in basic project management and task breakdowns, and the ability to take ownership of tasks.

• The ability to undertake and deliver to project deadlines.

• Be open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it.

• Strong portfolio or showreel demonstrating current and previous UI work.

• Applicants must be able to complete a small UI design project showcasing their skills as part of the application process.

Preferred / Additional Skills

• Experience with mobile application design, VR/XR, and web development pipelines.

• Experience and demonstrative of creating game HUDs, UI design and UI graphics.

• Experience with Lottie, Rive or After Effects.

• Rapid prototyping capabilities.

Full-Time Employee Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision (100% coverage for Employees)

• Paid time off, including vacation, sick, paid holidays, and parental leave

• Short and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Voluntary Worksite Benefits (Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity)
  

Note

Red 6 reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Red 6 has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications, and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.

Red Six Aerospace, Inc, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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