Lead UI/UX Designer, Unannounced Game | Irvine, CA

Blizzard is seeking a Lead UI/UX Designer to help craft a new, unannounced game, focusing on delivering engaging and intuitive user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build a world-class UI/UX team; hire, train and mentor UI/UX designers.
• Craft rules and establish structures that set up the development team for success in designing exceptional user interfaces throughout the life of the game.
• Partner with user research teams to gather insights, identify pain points, and validate design decisions.
• Utilize data to inform and refine design strategies.
• Create wireframes and mockups for all game features, with a focus on intuitive design choices.
• Work closely with team members across art, audio, design, engineering, production, and sound to integrate user experience principles into all stages of game development.
• Develop understanding and use the game engine and supporting tools to both build layouts and communicate functional requirements to engineering.
• Regularly present work within your feature team to gather feedback toward refining the player experience.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design in the gaming or interaction design field.
• Proven experience leading design teams.
• Have a track record of providing designing direction, performance management, and professional development.
• Expert level understanding of hierarchy and layout design principles, UX process and usability design principles, color theory and visual design.
• Proficiency in UX design tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Photoshop), wireframing, prototyping, and user research methodologies.
• Expertise in AAA game engines with a solid understanding of art implementation and integration workflows.
• Demonstrable experience leading features and complex UI systems from concept through completion across multiple platforms with distinct inputs (PC and Mobile).

Key Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to conceptualize, pitch, and implement game concepts using various tools, technology, and visual language.
• Strong documentation philosophies and strategies to evangelize your designs.
• Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback.
• Experience manipulating UI materials like repeating animations and VFX.
• Motion graphics or animation experience.
• Active player of a variety of mobile titles, especially turn-based strategy games.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.