Interaction Designer

Do you love music and technology? Looking for an exciting position in interaction design? Come help build the future of real-time social interactions. Doppelganger, the creator of music-focused virtual world, vSide, is looking for an interaction designer to join our creative team.

We are big believers in experience-centric product design. We start each release by agreeing on a theme and articulating the experiences that we will enable for our users. Experiences are comprised of features which drive interaction design, visual design and, finally, development. We are looking for an exceptional professional who will own interaction design in this process. This includes collaborating with the design team to articulate experience goals and define features, ensuring that feature design is complete from an interaction perspective, and working hand-in-hand with the development team to ensure a stellar final result.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with design team to articulate experience goals and define features
• Drive detailed interaction design as required for web and 3D client.
• Produce sketches and/or mock-ups to convey interaction flow and key visual design  
• Poduce final 2D visual assets
• Work collaboratively with development team to bring designs to life and refine them as needed
• Test and improve designs based on user observation, feedback and metrics

Qualifications:

• Passion for and a track-record of designing beautiful things that are a pleasure to use
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of interaction and visual design
• Effective working in a highly collaborative, agile, start-up environment
• Proficient with HTML, CSS and Photoshop
• Experience with rich applications and 3D games a big plus

Doppelganger is a social entertainment and media company located in San Francisco, California. We produce and operate vSide , a social massively multi-user virtual world where users engage in and experience new levels of self-expression, communication, community, and rich media programming. We target the youth demographic and deliver to them an immersive and emotionally connected entertainment experience around their interests: music, entertainment and fashion. vSide is open 24/7.

Doppelganger is venture backed by top tier venture capital firms, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Trident Capital and Velocity Interactive Group.

People with the above qualifications usually already have good jobs... but we bet ours is better. If you're qualified and looking for something new and exciting, please E-mail your resume and cover letter (including portfolio or link to portfolio) to jobs@doppelganger.com.

VP, Product

We are looking for an outstanding strategic leader with player/coach abilities to join us in building a revolutionary social experience. Our ideal candidate will love video games and music, and posses a solid background on the front lines of creative web properties, social networks or video games/virtual worlds. We are looking for someone to help us build more, better and faster without going crazy. We offer a unique opportunity to lead our Product Management efforts, drive user adoption and build phenomenal user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Refine and improve our current product strategy to deliver accelerating levels of initial and recurring usage of vSide
• Provide market analysis and recommendations based on current state of social networks and virtual worlds
• Define new features as well as track, measure, and optimize existing features
• Work side-by-side with engineers, artists and designers to collaboratively implement product vision and bring great ideas to life
• Build creative solutions to uncharted usability and interaction design challenges
• Champion the User Experience: advocate the release of exceptional consumer experiences
• Connect with users and gather feedback on features, experiences, behavior and interactions
• Lead and mentor the Product Management team

Qualifications
The successful candidate will have an outgoing and likable personality, be extremely creative, and have impeccable organization skills. This person must have the following additional qualifications:

• Candidates should have 10 years or more experience and have managed a team of at least 5 in the area of technical product management
• Direct experience in development of large-scale entertainment applications on time, on scope and on budget. Video game, social networking or virtual worlds experience all pluses
• Demonstrated ability and comfort working with founders and executives with strong product vision and ideas
• Knows the virtual worlds and/or social network space
• Strong technical foundation combined with experience driving creativity and innovation in product development
• Comfortable with agile design and development practices
• Technical understanding of video games, virtual worlds, and social networks (the more the better)
• Extremely self-motivated player/coach mentality -- not afraid to dig in
• Not afraid to work hard in exchange for a phenomenal experience
• Understand the rewards and challenges of a start-up environment

Please E-mail your resume and cover letter to jobs@doppelganger.com.