Product Designer

About Ascendion :

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:Position: Production DesignerLocation: Remote / PSTSummary:Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is working on a studio supporting industry solutions engineering by using emerging tech to work with external customers on how to leverage that tech. The team leverages emerging technologies such as AR/VR, GenAI, robotics including physical AI to create visionary prototypes and solutions that demonstrate value at scale for customers across multiple industries. The team will be asked to create a vision for what the future of a product or industry may look like, do some research, then brainstorm. Initially they will create a powerpoint deck to show their vision to the customer, then create a video on how to utilize emergent tech for this vision. Most projects last 2-3 months.

• Key projects: This role will contribute to all of the above, specializing in 3D visualization and utilizing AI. The role will help brainstorm and build out these prototypes, creating 3D animations or world, then layering data and AI on top of the prototype.

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications

• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts

• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution

• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area

• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment

• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner

Candidate Requirements

• Years of Experience Required: 10+ overall years of experience in the field.

• Degrees or certifications required: No degree is required to be eligible for this role.

• Disqualifiers: Candidates who lack demonstrable 3D visualization skills or do not have a portfolio submitted will not be a great fit.

• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain previous experience using Gen AI, being up to date on emergent AI tools as well as having created some video or imagery using AI. Significant previous experience in UI/UX is a big plus as well.

• The Ideal portfolio will demonstrate a good understanding of 3D, lighting, camera placement, storytelling using data. The ideal portfolio will also include UI/UX design work, previous work with video and/or audio, and include various types and styles of animation as well as representing reality and mechanical/manufacturing styles well.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required

• 0-2 years experience required

• Development experience in needed language or technology (e.g. - C#, C++, HTML)

• Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end

• Hands on experience in following the iterative and agile SDLC

Salary Range: $ 140,000 - 150,000 Annually - Factors that may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal day accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 day of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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