Senior UX Designer

Overview

Magnopus is seeking a Senior UX Designer for a fixed-term, project-based engagement to support active product and XR / interactive experiences
. This role is designed for an experienced UX designer who can step into work already in progress, operate independently, and contribute immediately within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary studio environment.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with opportunities for light mentorship and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

• Execute UX design work across active product and XR experiences with minimal ramp-up
• Support end-to-end product UX flows, interaction design, and experience definition
• Translate high-level goals, requirements, and constraints into clear UX solutions
• Produce and maintain UX artifacts, including:
  User flows and journey maps, wireframes and interaction models, UX documentation supporting design and development handoff

• Collaborate closely with design leadership, product, engineering, and creative teams
• Participate in internal and client-facing design reviews as needed
• Maintain UX consistency and quality across experiences already in development
• Provide light mentorship and UX guidance to cross-disciplinary team members
• Clearly document decisions and rationale to ensure continuity beyond the contract period

• 7+ years of professional UX design experience
• Strong background in product UX, including systems thinking, flows, and usability
• Experience designing interactive, immersive, or XR experiences
• Proven ability to work independently in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• Comfortable stepping into projects mid-stream and making informed design decisions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Adobe Illustrator, and related UX workflows

• Experience working in XR, spatial computing, games, or emerging technology platforms
• Background in agency, consultancy, or studio environments
• Experience designing web-based experiences (responsive layouts, information architecture, interaction patterns) as part of broader product or interactive systems
• Experience supporting client-facing work
• Portfolio of relevant work is a plus, but not required

$100,000 - $150,000 a year

Salaries offered are based on candidate experience, internal equity, and the level at which they are hired.

Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.

Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee s progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.

We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.

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