Careers

Second Story offers individuals with a passion for interaction rewarding careers pioneering new forms of interactive media and opportunities to inform, inspire, and educate audiences through diverse projects for influential cultural institutions.

Second Story seeks an experienced interaction designer or design director to lead the creative execution of innovative interactive media projects. The lead designer is a visionary thinker, an innovator, and a natural leader with a proven understanding of interactive technologies and storytelling techniques. As a core part of a project team, the lead designer will define the projects’ creative trajectory, including early strategy and concept development, and will create documentation that defines and articulates the experience design through to execution of visual design and overseeing design production.
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Second Story seeks a multi-talented individual that bridges interaction, motion, and environmental design to lead the creative execution of large-scale interactive media installations. This hybrid designer has a proven understanding of interaction beyond the Web where innovative technologies, non-traditional interfaces, and physical space converge to immerse visitors in memorable experiences. As a core part of a project team, the experience designer will define a project’s creative trajectory from early strategy to the development of visual, physical, motion, and interaction design to implementation.
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Second Story seeks an experienced designer to expand the studio’s interactive experience design capabilities beyond the screen. The designer will collaborate with studio producers, interaction designers and other creatives to craft concepts for story-driven interpretive visitor experiences and design exhibitions that blend media, interactivity, technology with the physical world. As a key member of the interdisciplinary experience design team, the designer’s capabilities with industrial design will define a media installation’s physical properties; their experience with exhibition and environmental design will define how media installations are integrated into environments; and their architectural literacy will bridge these environments with buildings and the landscape. The designer is a visionary thinker, an innovator, and a natural leader with a proven understanding of various physical design disciplines and storytelling techniques.View position description.

Second Story seeks an experienced interactive developer to inform and execute innovative interactive media projects. The interactive developer is a visionary thinker with an inquisitive mind to learn new technologies and is accomplished at expressing creativity through Actionscript and Flash to build informative, useable, and inspiring media installations, multi-touch surfaces, and immersive Web sites. As a core member of the project team the interactive developer collaborates with designers, producers, and production coordinators to inform the projects’ development trajectory, including prototyping, planning, architecting, and executing code. View position description.