R&D Interaction Designer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at DataDeletionTarget

We are looking for disruptors who are passionate about redefining reality through learning, experimenting and prototyping.

andculture is a design company.

Our human code is made of behaviors, grounded on values, lived intentionally day-in and day-out. We design and innovate alongside our clients, as partners, around the country and push for the lightbulb moments. The ‘culture of and’ guides us through our mission, while we pursue our vision and live our purpose to improve the world around us, through design, one experience at a time. We’re all grounded on the following values: courage, optimism, generosity, curiosity, vulnerability, and confidence.

Does that make sense to you? If your answer is ‘yes’, we’re off to a good start.

You’ll be joining us as a R&D Interaction Designer, where we believe that magic only happens when we push to make a difference through experimentation and designing proofs of concept to make the impossible possible. You will push the envelope of what can be, quickly establish what could work or what will not work and share the results of your findings with the organization.

Our R&D Interaction Designers thrive on crafting experiences, are curious about how things work, and love connecting pieces that seem unlikely to fit together. They are fearless and prideful risk-takers who use their imaginations to explore, invent and teach. They are proactive, resourceful, resilient, and open-minded to the endless amount of possible technologies, crafted experiences and paths to be shaped.

• Create immersive experiences throughout different types of realities. Whether it is a basic form or a mixed reality experience, you will seek to craft an engaging, user-friendly representation that will be utilized from developers to business consultants.
• Create the visual tone and concepts for our experiments and projects that we are creating that allow us to show the possibilities to solve different types of problems in the world.
• Research, explore and experiment with different software platforms that allow you to quickly test your experiences and share with other team members.
• Participate in brainstormings for new experiments, opportunity pitches, and project ideation across the team and organization.
• Communicate the status of your work frequently by showing and presenting the work you have done with the team.
• Communicate commitments and hold yourself accountable to deliver them on time in order to move on to the next set of established projects.
• Be collaborative with your work by ensuring that you engage with others on your team, have your work reviewed, and share your findings early and often.
• Demonstrate vulnerability by asking for feedback, and reaching out to experienced team members for advice on areas to improve your skills.
• Learn, educate and dive into unknown areas of design and problem solving that you may never have thought possible.
• Collaborate with others in order to establish quick results and takeaways from our experiments.
• Whether a web, mobile, desktop, or robotic solution, you apply your understanding of design and technology to change how we experience the world.

An ideal candidate will have most of these skills & qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that will assist in presentations, demos, and shared documentation on findings.
• Knowledge of design systems and tools that will enable you to quickly craft experiences that help meet the objective.
• Immersed in technology and how we can shape technology through the lens of design in order to change the world around us.
• Ability to continuously learn and engage with the world around us to help craft more immersive experiences that help shape how we utilize technology.
• Great organization and time-management skills are necessary to ensure that we are showing what is possible, capturing our findings, and doing so at a rapid pace.
• Experience using different types of software in order to help design and craft experiences in various technologies.
• Education that is commensurate with understanding how to build software, understand technologies and share the experiences created.
• Experience with mixed reality, gaming, 3d, and motion design is a plus.

You’ll also come ready for a challenge! You may often be asked to play a role over time in diverse areas outside of your core expertise. We really, really like collaboration and finding the clash in all we do. That’s where the magic happens.