Concept Artist

FitXR is a fitness technology company working at the cutting edge of VR and MR, building a movement for movement.

We started life in 2016 in a garden shed in the UK. Today, we’re building FitXR, one of the top-downloaded apps on the Meta Quest store. We’ve raised close to $30m from top investors such as Maveron, Hiro, and BoostVC.

We've built a growing range of fitness studios, from box workouts with world-class trainers like Olympian Nicola Adams to immersive Zumba dance classes. While nothing compares to trying it yourself, you can watch a trailer here.

Our team is distributed across Europe and the US. We’re guided by our Principles of Play: four core beliefs about how we treat each other and our community. We make space for every voice, believe in the importance of a learner’s mindset, and prioritize team success over individual glory.

FitXR is available on Meta Quest 2 & 3 and has been downloaded by over a million people worldwide and featured in Forbes, Empire, T3, Washington Post, Men's Health, GQ and more. In 2022, FitXR ranked 6th in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups.

TLDR

We’re looking for a passionate and dedicated Concept Artist to join our incredible team! As a Concept Artist, you'll be the visionary force driving the visual exploration of our environments, working closely with our Art Director and Creative Director.

What You’ll Find Here

• A highly collaborative team of multi-disciplinary specialists, who manage a huge range of experimental and high-impact product initiatives - your thoughts, challenges and ideas are actively encouraged!
• An ambitious but ambiguous environment - we’re here to build a category-defining product that radically changes how people experience fitness. This means there is no defined path for us to follow: we’re breaking new ground every day and learning as we do. You’ll thrive here if you’re as passionate as us about changing people’s lives for the better while being comfortable navigating ambiguity and creating your own certainty in the uncertain
• A culture built on delivering greatness, iterating, sharing feedback and trying new things - we want you to take bold bets focused on driving value to our customers, and tell us what you learn if it doesn’t work!
• A highly invested senior leadership team who believe our people are what will take our business to the next level - they are your teammates, cheerleaders, coaches, support team - working beside you as we build the #1 immersive fitness app in the world
• Strong foundations, but an openness to work your way - we have a high quality bar when it comes to delivery, but teams have the freedom to self-organise how they achieve this
• An excellent benefits package - see below
  
  

Where you’ll spend your time

• Conceptualising and developing distinctive designs for world building and workout environments, ensuring they align with the overall theme and objectives of the project
• Creating engaging and immersive environments that motivate and excite users
• Collaborating with the Art Director, Creative Director and wider teams by engaging in brainstorming sessions to conceptualise visual elements
• Designing specific elements, including environmental scenery, lighting, and colour schemes
• Proposing unique features that enhance user interaction and overall experience
• Iterating on designs based on feedback from internal stakeholders
• Contributing to the creation of visually compelling and cohesive experiences
  
  

We’d love to see from you

• Proven experience as a Concept Artist
• Strong portfolio showcasing conceptual and environmental design skills
• A strong background in stylised realism with painterly-like qualities, showcasing your ability to bring a diverse range of visual styles to life
• A genuine passion for VR, MR, and Fitness, demonstrating your enthusiasm for pushing the boundaries of artistic expression in the context of immersive fitness experiences
• Proficiency in digital art tools and software
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Be an artist at heart!
  
  

Our mission is to make fitness fun and accessible for everyone. To build inclusive products, we need to build an inclusive team. Please know that this list is indicative and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel you only are a 75% match. Skills can be learnt, diversity cannot. We promote a diverse and inclusive culture at FitXR.

Logistics 🛠

Our interview process takes place on Google Hangouts and tends to consist of the following stages:

• Initial screen with the talent team
• Hiring Manager / technical interview
• Chat with our Creative Director
• Cultural chat
• Final stage with our CEO, Sam
  
  

Some roles will have extra stages but we’ll let you know as early as possible if so.

Please let us know if you require any accommodations for the interview process, and we’ll do our best to provide assistance.

Benefits 🌱

As well as being fully remote, our benefits include:

🏝 Unlimited annual leave

📈 Stock options - everyone is an owner

🌱 £800 per annum learning budget and £400 home office setup budget

🧘 £900 per annum wellbeing budget (Private Health Insurance available)

🤗 Annual company retreat & regular get-togethers

💻 VR headset

🚴‍♂️ Cycle scheme

👶 12 weeks full paid family leave

FitXR is a fitness technology company working at the cutting edge of virtual reality. We started life in a garden shed in the UK, but fast forward to today, we’re known as the team behind the award-winning VR App FitXR which is one of the top-selling games on the Oculus and Steam stores.

We're a fast-growing funded scale-up breaking new grounds in how people move. With backing from top investors such as Hiro Capital we've achieved 1M+ downloads were changing even more people's lives through virtual reality fitness.

We are a global remote first company and our team spans across the UK, US and Spain. Our team comes from a variety of backgrounds including fitness and some of the most successful technology and gaming companies in the world.

Our mission is to redefine fitness and prove that exercise can be fun - and for everyone. We believe in a future where exercise everywhere - whether that is the gym, the park, or at home - is enhanced through engaging technology that extends your reality.

FitXR have been rated one of the top 10 Most Promising Startups, #2 in Flexa's most flexible VR startups and #28 in Tempo's top 100 super startups to work for 🎉