UX Designer Snowdrop

Job Description

Snowdrop is a powerful game engine that enables Ubisoft content creators to set their creative minds free. Fast and flexible, Snowdrop gives developers innovative tools designed from the ground up for creating the unknown. Snowdrop provides the perfect canvas for game developers to paint the games of the future.  

We are looking for a passionate UX Designer to join our team at Snowdrop, where your focus will revolve around enhancing the user experiences within our cutting-edge systems and innovations. Your primary mission is to bring user-centered design to life, from concept inception to seamless execution. You will also take on the challenge of structuring intricate content and information systems, transforming them into intuitive user scenarios, wireframes, and functional specifications.

As a creative problem-solver and strategic thinker, you'll meticulously evaluate the impact of every design choice. Armed with real user data and valuable feedback, you will make well-informed decisions to ensure a consistently seamless overall experience for our users.

We're offering a permanent position in Malmö, Sweden, with the flexibility to work partially from home (up to two days a week) under our Flexible Workplace Policy. Please apply using English, our company's primary language.

What you'll do 
• Create UX Deliverables: Perform research, usability studies, Craft wireframes, user journeys, flows etc to improve on the experience throughout the production cycle.
• Continuous improvement: Design and validate clear, simple and consistent UX solutions and interaction rules. Use a Build, measure, learn mindset to iterate on the product continuously.
• Embedd Research in Development: Discover insights through research & quant data, use a data informed approach to make decisions and use a design thinking methodology mindset to seamlessly integrate research findings across all product development stages.
• Facilitate workshops with various teams: Facilitate workshops between Snowdrop and Game teams to discover insights and create solutions to problems.
• Champion UX Advocacy: Wholeheartedly advocate for UX and research within the teams that you will be working closely with and advise on how to work with UX in their production cycle.
• Team player: Be an awesome team player and bring your positivity and great sense of humor to complete the missing piece of our team.

About Production Technology at Ubisoft  

At Ubisoft, there are no limits to creativity. Innovation comes from every corner and our game teams are constantly pushing the boundaries of technology to transform ideas into fantastical worlds. To bolster their efforts, Ubisoft's Production Technology department is a transversal group that unites more than 400 experts across the company around a mission to develop the best tools and technologies that enable our studios to bring their visions to life. From designing our proprietary game engines and state-of-the-art middleware solutions used by our worldwide developer community, to leveraging the latest machine learning breakthroughs in R&D, Production Technology team members don't just help Ubisoft creators make games: they work together to pioneer innovations that change the way games are made. 

Qualifications

What you'll bring 

You can work autonomously within your field and know how to collaborate in a multidisciplinary team. You're able to work utilizing an innovative and iterative process that you can integrate into your workflows. You're used to presenting and communicating your work and findings to different audiences. You're willing to take risks and always see the positive in any task while at the same time remaining open to feedback. Besides the above we're looking for someone aligned with our core values and the following skills and experience: 
• Provide a portfolio showcasing your UX skills and methodology
• Have professional experience working as a UX Designer or equivalent in software development
• You have worked on larger projects working with multiple stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of information & product architecture, interface & design thinking, service design, and various research techniques

Nice to have: Experience & knowledge working with game engines such as Unreal, Unity etc.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3zenn-3-147-54-242-42 in your application.