UI Visual Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

MindMaze is the world’s leading Neurotechnology start-up built on more than a decade of pioneering research at the intersection of virtual reality and neuroscience. Our breakthrough platform combines virtual & augmented reality, neuroscience and artificial intelligence to build intuitive human machine interfaces. Our first products help patients suffering from severe disabilities following a neurological incident.

Join our eclectic mix of scientists, physicists, engineers and clinicians, and grow with MindMaze.

Job Description

Your mission

We have great products but we want to make them even greater with the lead and input of someone who is both creative and rational. You understand the power of graphic design to make product that are distinctive, appealing and comfortable to use. You have an artistic eye but remain mindful of context of use, target audience and constraints. You thrive in cross-functional environments and will collaborate with MindMaze marketing, clinical, neuroscience, engineering (including video game developers and artists), QA&RA, UX & IxD team members.

Your time will be roughly split by 70% UI Graphic Design, 20% Illustration and 10% General Graphic Design.

Your key responsibilities

As Visual Designer you will have the opportunity to :

  • Closely collaborate with Human-Centered Design internal and external teams such as UX Designers, Interaction Designers and Visual Designers
  • Make evolve and create User Interface graphic design for our various products and solutions
  • Define and create custom iconography within a consistent ecosystem
  • Create infographics to communicate to various target audiences
  • Provide graphic design inputs for game related assets (score boards, gamification badges, ...)
  • Cooperate on design elements for user guides and documentation
  • Be the gate keeper of the look & feel consistency among the MindMaze ecosystem
  • Build and maintain an internal design system and advocate for scalable design solutions
  • Ensure efficiency of the design production pipeline

 

To support you, MindMaze will:

  • Provide an international collaborative work environment
  • Provide mentoring
  • Allow flexible employment terms and conditions

Qualifications

Skills that we look out for are among

  • Bsc or Msc in Graphic Design or similar relevant field
  • Previous experience of 3 to 5 years as UI designer/Visual designer for application (web, mobile, software)
  • Experience in an iterative graphical assets production pipeline for multi-screen density context.
  • You can demonstrate a portfolio including Graphic Design, User Interface graphic design and Illustration (Icons, instructional illustration, Observatory Illustration, ...) work.
    Advance knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop is mandatory, InDesign is a plus to have
  • Excellent communication skills and fluent in English

Design

  • You are able to quickly think visually concepts and produce visualizations with the right level of details (from hand drawn sketches down to pixel perfect) adapted to the target audience
  • You are a very creative designer able to reuse, but also create from scratch and innovate.
  • You have the ability to propose viable variants of the same concept
  • You are able to understand the needs and constraints of the engineering team to produce a viable design
  • You embrace design principles at every stage of creation
  • You have great sense of aesthetic, are continuously up to date with the latest UI and Graphic Design trends
  • You have strong illustration skills to design custom made iconography to express complex concept

Communication

  • You have a positive attitude and an agile mindset
  • You’re a team player and you’re resilient in the face of challenges.
  • Outstanding listening and communication skills to ensure messages are clear and unambiguous
  • Humble on what you create, you accept criticism, defend your ideas with arguments and use others feedback as a way to improve for a better outcome
     

Icing on the cake

You have experience in:

  • Instructional design
  • Print production
  • Font design (might be academic only)
  • 2D animation and motion graphics (Adobe animate, after effect, ...) for animated UI elements
  • 3D graphic design/illustrations with tools such as 3DS MAX, Cinema4D and others

Additional Information

To be successful, you can illustrate the fact that you have the following abilities:

  • Working autonomously: setting tasks and direction under limited supervision
  • High quality of work: detail oriented, always looking for an excellent quality of work and delivery 
  • Oral and written communication: ability to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; ability to get messages across that have the desired effect
  • Planning accurately: setting objectives and goals; breaking down work into the process steps; developing schedules and task/people assignments; anticipating and adjusting to problems and roadblocks
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