UI Lead

Job Description

UI Lead - (Open to Remote)

Your Platform

Toys for Bob, a collaborative team of stellar individuals that have inspired love, joy, and laughter through epic AAA entertainment for more than 30 years, is open to remote work! Our passion for developing award-winning games with diverse genres includes the Crash Bandicoot®, Call of Duty®, Overwatch®, Spyro®, Skylanders®, and Tony Hawk® franchises. We are constantly evolving and support our growing employees to be as innovative as they can be. Toys for Bob's experienced developers are looking for creative individuals ready to take on exciting and new projects. Join us!

Toys for Bob is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, visit us at www.toysforbob.com and @ToysForBob on Twitter.

Your Mission

As a UI Lead, you will lead and grow a small team of UI artists, engineers, and designers to develop each of our game's unique interface to the highest standards of clarity, usability, and enjoyability. This role will report to the Engineering Director and collaborate closely with Design and Art leads.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Develop, articulate, and maintain each game's unique UI vision and standards of its user flows, screen layouts, and individual components through wireframes, flowcharts, mockups, write-ups, or any means necessary.
• Review and steer the functional design of UI elements and screens to high usability standards in close coordination with Design and Engineering leads.
• Guide the development of UI aesthetics in close partnership with Art leads to support design goals and improve the game's accessibility and clarity.
• Lead a small team of UI engineers, designers, and artists.
• Lead by example - implement flows, screens, and widgets in-game when needed.
• Be the owner of standard processes; review, document, share, build knowledge and process within the team
• Extract usability insights from playtests, user research, and community feedback. Work with Production to translate feedback into scheduled, practical tasks to improve the user's experience.
• Partner with studio leadership to grow the team through new hires and development strategies.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Strong understanding of user experience/technical design fundamentals
• Leadership experience
• Ability to deliver and receive feedback constructively
• Eagerness to support the team through direct contribution
• Preference to fail fast and iterate through feedback
• Attention to detail

Bonus Experience:
• Experience leading UI team on a shipped game/product
• A passion for accessibility
• Experience and interest in mentoring designers and UI artists

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• 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.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $121,500.00 - $224,880.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the US and is not applicable to locations outside of the US Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g40w21-3-133-108-241-42 in your application.