Job Description
Senior User Experience Designer
Location: Onsite in Vancouver BC | Remote work available in most Canadian and US locations
We are looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to join our mobile game team.
Our sports mobile teams are founded on inclusivity, innovation, and creativity with a mission to bring immersive sports gaming experiences built for mobile devices to millions of gamers around the world. With teams located in Canada, Romania, and the United States, we are powered by global talent and looking for passionate and creative new team members to design the future of mobile gaming.
You will report to the UX Director and work with cross-disciplinary partners and team leadership to shape the user experience of a new title in development.
We are considering on-site and hybrid working options, and welcome full-time remote candidates who are within a three hour time difference to the Pacific Time Zone to apply.
Who you are:
• You love making games and enhancing the player experience
• You value collaboration with teammates from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines
• You understand how to leverage qualitative and quantitative feedback from a variety of player research practices to improve your designs
• You enjoy mentoring other designers, explaining UX design principles to non-designers, and evangelizing best practices across your studio
How you'll contribute:
• Work closely with Game Designers and Product Managers to craft an experience that delivers on player aspirations and business goals
• Help to shape the process the team uses to incorporate UX best practices and produce the highest quality player experiences
• Collaborate with UI Designers to produce a beautiful, frictionless experience that facilitates deep immersive gameplay
• Provide a strong interactive point-of-view to help the team understand problem spaces and identify solutions that align with the creative vision
• Map the player journey all the way from day one through the elder game to align with target player personas
• Build a deep understanding of competitors in the market to inform designs that will meet player expectations and create a best-in-class experience
• Establish consistent rules for how communication tools are used and formatted throughout the game
• Drive user testing by recognizing areas of high risk, identifying the best method of garnering feedback to answer key questions, and designing wireframes, prototypes, and surveys
• Interpret results of user and market tests to identify experience optimizations and present your findings to the broader team
What you'll need
• 6+ years in mobile UX design on shipped titles
• A degree in Interaction Design, Psychology, HCI or demonstrated proficiency and experiences in the field of user experience
• Fluency in best practices for interaction design in mobile free-to-play games
• Understanding of user research methodologies and hypothesis-based testing
• Proficiency with prototyping in tools such as Adobe XD, Figma or others
• Experience with Unity is preferrable
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0mq68-3-235-139-122-42 in your application.