UIUX Designer

Position Summary

Now part of Light & Wonder Grover Gaming brings a legacy of innovation integrity and game design excellence to our growing for its award-winning electronic gaming experiences and vibrant culture Grover Gaming has built a reputation as a top workplace and a trusted name in the industry. Together were expanding our impact and shaping the future of charitable gaming with even greater creativity purpose and reach. This is more than a jobits a chance to make a lasting impact grow your career and work with a team that values collaboration creativity and technical excellence.

Job Summary:

Join our team as a UI/UX Designer to help productize and elevate our game development suite for partner studios. Focused on tooling and editor interfaces you will transform functional development tools into world-class experiences that will make Unity jealous of your output. Youll design intuitive workflows editors and wizards that empower game creators streamline content creation and set new standards for usability and efficiency in game development environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Design and optimize user interfaces for game development tools editors and content creation workflows.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate functional requirements into intuitive efficient and delightful user experiences.

• Create wireframes prototypes and flow charts for tool interfaces game editors and workflow wizards.

• Advocate for user-centric design solutions that balance business goals and developer needs.

• Conduct user research usability testing and stakeholder interviews to inform design decisions.

• Iterate on UI/UX based on feedback from partner studios internal teams and end users.

• Develop and maintain design systems and documentation for development tools.

• Ensure accessibility usability and consistency across all tool interfaces.

• Present design concepts and rationale to cross-functional teams and leadership.

• Stay current with trends in developer tooling game engines and content creation platforms.

Our studio is located in Raleigh North Carolina. Were offering a lump sum payment to assist with relocation for out of states candidates!

This role requires full-time on-site presence with plans to move to a hybrid structure as the studio matures.

Qualifications

Training and/or Experience

• 5 years of experience in UI/UX design with a focus on tooling editors or workflow products.

• Experience designing interfaces for game development environments creative tools or similar platforms.

• Prior gaming industry experience is preferred but not required.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Innovative yet user centric design abilities.

• Strong portfolio showcasing design for development tools editors or workflow products.

• Expertise in usability accessibility and interaction design principles.

• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (Figma Adobe XD Photoshop Illustrator etc.).

• Experience with user research personas scenarios and usability testing.

• Ability to create wireframes prototypes and detailed design specifications.

• Excellent communication presentation and storytelling skills.

• Familiarity with game engines (Unity Unreal) and implementation of UI assets is a plus.

• Understanding of information architecture and design systems for complex tools.

• Collaborative mindset and ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in related field or equivalent professional experience.

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit stand walk bend use hands operate a computer and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions:

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming a result certain L&W employees may among other things be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s) undergo background investigations or security checks or meet certain standards dictated by law regulation or contracts.

In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law) you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

L&W is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race ethnicity gender sexual orientation veteran status or on the basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. If youd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law please click here: EEOC Poster

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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. If youd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law please click here for EEOC Poster.