Concept Designer Verizon
New York, NY

Job Description

What you'll be doing...

As a member of the 5G Labs team, you'll be focused on building proofs-of-concept that accelerate Verizon's 5G Ecosystem. Verizon is leading the industry in developing capabilities with 5G that will unlock new opportunities and experiences for consumers and enterprises. In this role, you'll be stitching together the latest in enterprise and consumer technology to feed insights back to the business and bring the 5G network to life for Verizon's customers.

Activities will include:

* Understanding 5G and technologies that benefit from it in order to make recommendations and stitch these technologies together for proof-of-concept builds.
* Assess concepts for feasibility from a technical design perspective.
* Develop wireframes and user journeys that describe the bigger picture and support proof-of-concept development by telling a compelling story.
* Bringing the "wow" moments to product design and prototyping.
* Work with product managers, creative storytellers, and designers to build impactful, easy-to-understand prototypes.
* Participate in internal concepting and ideation sessions and bring an engineering perspective to the discussion.
* Apply design thinking to problem solving.
* Develop the underlying design infrastructure for the team to support faster development of future proof-of-concepts.

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

* Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
* Four or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have:

* 2 - 4 years as a product and / or experience designer with fluency in software development approaches and design methodologies.
* An ability to marry design quality and business need for the 'right' level of elegance for a given piece of code.
* A desire to work with people and not just tools.
* A "jobs-to-be-done first" approach to product decisions.
* Experience working closely with a product manager or product team.
* Excited to work in a fast-paced environment.
* A desire to grow your familiarity with a breadth of new technologies and apply them, e.g. new digital or physical interfaces such as volumetric video studios, AR glasses, VR goggles, or 360° treadmills.
* Experience with across a broad range of platforms (software + hardware).
* Experience with Unity, Unreal, and other high poly asset environments.
* Experience writing UI tests.
* A hunger to change the world for the better through technology.
* Passion for what's next.

When you join Verizon...

You'll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America's fastest and most reliable network, we're leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we're about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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