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

Blizzard is looking for a Lead UI/UX Designer to help craft a new, unannounced game. You will be responsible for delivering engaging, strategic, and approachable gameplay, and will be the key member of the development team.

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

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design in the gaming or interaction design field
• Proven experience leading design teams
• 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

Key Skills

• UI/UX design
• Hierarchy and layout design principles
• UX process and usability design principles
• Color theory and visual design
• Figma
• Miro
• Photoshop

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation
• Paid sick time
• Compassion and bereavement leaves
• Parental leave