UX Design Engineer Position at Gym Class VR Sports Game
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Summary
Gym Class, a top-rated social sports VR game on Meta Quest, is hiring a founding UX Design Engineer to lead development of their mobile web app and web surfaces within their VR experience. The role involves end-to-end ownership of UX surfaces, including designing in Figma and building production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS. The ideal candidate has 3-6+ years experience in consumer web products, strong front-end skills (React, TypeScript, CSS), and combines design taste with engineering expertise to create responsive, performant interfaces for both mobile and VR platforms.
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You'll own key UX surfaces end-to-end - crafting in Figma, then building responsive, production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS
A designer-who-codes (or an engineer with taste): 3–6+ years building consumer web products. Strong Figma skills and a shipped portfolio of design + code work
Entrepreneurial: High-ownership, comfortable with ambiguity. Ex-founders and builders who like to run with problems do great here
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