Senior Designer, UX/UI - Unannounced Game

A Senior UX Designer role to help craft a new, unannounced game for Blizzard, focusing on intuitive design and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Craft the Experience: Create wireframes and mockups for all game features, with a focus on intuitive design choices
• Feedback Loop: Regularly present work within your feature team to gather feedback toward refining the player experience
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with team members across game design, engineering, sound, art, and production to integrate user experience principles into all stages of game development
• Build in Engine: Understand engine platform to both build layouts and communicate functional requirements to engineering
• Target Alignment: Stay up-to-date with production and engineering teams to ensure designs are aligned with project goals and technical constraints
• User Research: Work closely with user research to gather insights, identify pain points, and validate design decisions
• Utilize data to inform and refine design strategies
• Innovation: Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation in-game UX design

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in UX design in the gaming or interactive design field or combination of education and experience
• Visual design and motion graphics experience
• 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
• Expert understanding of hierarchy and layout design principles, UX process and usability design principles, PC/console specific design patterns
• Implementation experience in proprietary engine platform or commercial game engine (Unreal, Unity..etc)
• Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback

Key Skills

• UX design
• Visual design
• Motion graphics
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Conceptualization
• Pitching
• Implementation
• Design principles
• User research
• Data utilization
• Innovation

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