Senior UX/UI Designer, Unannounced Game

Netflix seeks a Senior UX/UI Designer to develop core interaction and experience design for a dual-screen game, ensuring intuitive and satisfying player interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype engaging game UI using industry-standard tools like Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, and Figma, ensuring intuitive and satisfying player interactions.
• Utilize technical skills to implement UI features directly in-engine, ensuring seamless integration and ownership over the UX we ship to our members.
• Advocate for execution quality in various areas of expertise and influence, ensuring that all deliverables meet the highest standards.
• Mentor and guide team designers on UX/UI craft excellence.
• Direct and collaborate with outsource partners and vendors to achieve exceptional UX/UI execution quality.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to guide the development and refinement of key features, screens, and menus, ensuring a cohesive and extraordinary player experience from sketches through full implementation.
• Drive UX vision across disciplines, acting as an Informed Captain, even when other leads may disagree.
• Collaborate with leadership to establish experiential vision, goals, and quality metrics, driving a unified player experience across all game features and systems.
• Enhance cohesion and clarity in outward-facing materials, such as creative briefs and stakeholder review decks, to convey our creative vision effectively.
• Partner with Creative and Art leads to produce mockups, prototypes, or videos that help drive and align UX/UI with the product's holistic artistic vision.
• Serve as a constant source of inspiration and advocacy, pushing the team to achieve the best work of their lives by helping foster a culture of excellence and creativity.
• Act as a bridge between our members, Consumer Insights, and core dev teams. Gather and present materials that align the team’s vision with broader business goals and member needs, initiating new research and insights where there are gaps.
• Balance schedules, budgets, and experience aspirations with data and deep production experience. Help organize project scheduling along with staffing and outsourcing needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressively complex, related experience in UX/UI design, with a proven track record of shipping multiple games in a UX/UI design-focused role.
• Deep understanding of game design theory and practices, especially as it relates to UX/UI, approachability, controls, and interaction.
• Experience in designing for mobile and touch devices—bonus for second-screen experiences.
• Can produce baseline mock-ups, especially in early prototyping stages, without additional UI art support.
• Capable and well-versed in basic scripting and/or C# to implement UX directly in-engine, in Unity, or similar game engines.
• Thrives as a member of a cross-functional multidisciplinary team.
• Communicates with authenticity, intention, and curiosity.
• Gets excited by learning new skills, dashing to pitch in, even if this means flexing beyond this role’s core responsibilities, if it can help us win.
• Plays broadly across multiple games of varied genres.
• Works effectively off-site on shared projects.

Key Skills

• UX/UI design
• Game design theory and practices
• Designing for mobile and touch devices
• Basic scripting and/or C#
• Cross-functional team collaboration
• Communication skills
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new skills
• Playing broadly across multiple games of varied genres
• Working effectively off-site on shared projects

Benefits

• Health Plans
• Mental Health support
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Stock Option Program
• Disability Programs
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Family-forming benefits
• Life and Serious Injury Benefits
• Paid leave of absence programs
• 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
• Flexible time off for full-time salaried employees