Senior UX Design Manager
Senior UX Design Manager
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04-09-2025
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The Senior UX Manager at Level 13 is a cross-functional strategic design leader who operates at the intersection of player experience product outcomes and craft excellence. You will be responsible for end-to-end creative leadership across a product theme or initiative with accountability for the quality coherence and player impact of the design output. You lead through influence and ownershipnot controland you elevate both design standards and cross-craft collaboration. This is not a role for individual brilliance or decorative design. Its for a systems thinker who can embed quality and player value into the core operating model. Shape Key Responsibilities 1. Strategic Design Leadership Own the end-to-end creative vision within a product theme translating strategic goals into coherent high-quality player experiences. Drive decision-making on design principles quality benchmarks and experiential polish within the theme. Actively contribute to product strategy shaping priorities trade-offs and constraints through deep design and player understanding. Serve as a key design voice in cross-functional triads with PM and Tech ensuring design is a driver of product direction not an afterthought. 2. Executional Craft and Systems Set the creative bar and ensure alignment with player-first and quality-first principles. Lead the design and rollout of scalable systems (e.g. design systems UX patterns interaction frameworks) that drive consistency and speed. Embed feedback loops within delivery ensuring continuous refinementnot just delivery. Own and enforce the standard of definition of done from a design perspective: nothing ships that doesnt meet it. 3. Team Empowerment and Growth Lead a small team of designers (embedded or centralized) across one or multiple initiatives. Coach mentor and elevate the craft maturity and ownership mindset of individual contributors. Create space for ICs to drive parts of the work while ensuring alignment with the broader design system and player goals. Drive peer feedback culture and ensure regular critique and quality elevation rituals. 4. Cross-Craft and Cross-Functional Collaboration Operate as a key driver of integrated collaboration across design product art tech and data. Define and reinforce shared rituals and processes that reduce hand-offs and duplication. Ensure design is deeply embedded from problem discovery to post-launch iteration. Actively reduce dependency on PM as the coordination hub; design should pull its own weight in driving progress. 5. Continuous Improvement and Cultural Leadership Actively challenge legacy ways of workingsimplify processes eliminate friction and remove noise. Champion growth mindset: give and receive feedback use data to disprove biases and treat iteration as the job. Represent One Soda mentality: no silos no turf warsjust collective ownership for what ships and how it impacts players. Model ownership urgency and rigor in all interactions. Role Expectations Scope of influenceArea-wide or multi-team impact; key driver of cross-theme design standards Autonomy Operates independently; escalates only systemic blockers Output Ownership Accountable for both design quality and how well the design serves business and player goals Communication Frames design problems clearly influences without ego and drives alignment across functions Mentorship Directly grows ICs through structured coaching feedback and delegation Craft Elevation Improves not just outcomes but the system that produces them (e.g. via playbooks reviews templates) What Success Looks Like Clear player value delivered in every major release within your scope. Design team members under your guidance grow in clarity capability and confidence. Fewer meetings fewer approvals faster feedback cyclesand higher design impact. Other disciplines seek your input early not because they must but because it improves outcomes. The product becomes more intuitive cohesive and delightful over timeand this is traceable to your leadership. Required Skills & Experience 810 years in product design UX or game design with at least 3 years in leadership or principal-level roles. Proven ability to lead complex multi-stakeholder initiatives from problem space to shipped solution. Deep fluency in systems thinking interaction design and player-centered development. Demonstrated ability to grow others not just deliver yourself. Strong collaboration skills across product engineering data and marketing. Comfortable with ambiguity complexity and change. Thrives in transformation.About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the worlds most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has Kingsters in Stockholm Malm London Barcelona Berlin Dublin San Francisco New York Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.
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