UX Designer Pokémon GO
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 120600 - 174000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Niantics UX Design team builds innovative mobile experiences for tens of millions of users worldwide encouraging discovery exercise and meaningful social experiences.
The Pokémon GO team is looking for a well-rounded UX Designer to help us deliver the next wave of experiences for our players. Working in a collaborative environment youll partner closely with peers across game design art product and engineering teams to champion the best interests of our broad player base through the design of intuitive engaging and usable game UX.
Were looking for someone who is a strong voice for the player applying both intuition and data-informed research to drive creative solutions for existing and new experiences. We value adept storytellers that can translate complex use cases into simple scalable designs that can be implemented by the team. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and can help teams shift and re-focus efforts as needed.
Are you interested in helping craft the future of real-world interactive experiences Wed love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Support UX design efforts from concept to implementation for multiple key projects.
- Develop mockups wireframes prototypes and detailed design documentation to clearly describe interaction flows and design concepts.
- Clearly communicate UX designs to internal and external partners.
- Lead team rituals to conceptualize and brainstorm new features.
- Improve and extend existing UI design system patterns and brand guidelines.
- Partner with user research to incorporate player insights throughout the development process including leading user studies as needed.
- Proactively make contributions towards UX team rituals and process improvements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and partners including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office min 2 days a week
Qualifications
- 3 years or equivalent experience in UX design for consumer-facing products with a portfolio of shipped features/titles and personal projects.
- Portfolio of work showcasing examples of consumer-facing mobile UX covering both interaction and UI design
- Experience working on gaming and non-gaming products
- Experience with wireframing and prototyping in Figma collaboratively using shared design libraries and patterns.
- Familiarity with mobile UX design patterns applied in gaming fitness or live-service applications.
- Strong visual design motion design and UI art skills.
- Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to develop novel UX patterns as needed.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications including asynchronous interactions with others.
Plus if...
- You can implement and manipulate UI in Unity.
- You have Japanese language proficiency.
For candidates in CA CO NJ NY and WA the annual salary range is provided addition to base pay employees may be eligible for equity bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare benefits retirement benefits pet insurance paid holidays paid Scopely free days and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.
CA CO NJ NY and WA Annual Salary Range
$120600 - $174000 USD
About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company home to many top award-winning experiences such as MONOPOLY GO! Star Trek Fleet Command Stumble Guys MARVEL Strike Force and Yahtzee With Buddies among others.
Scopely creates publishes and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience across multiple platforms--from mobile web PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011 Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia EMEA and North America and is home to many internal game development teams referred to as Scopely Studios with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
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Key Skills
- CSS
- InVision
- Balsamiq
- HTML5
- Information Architecture
- Ux
- Usability
- Wireframing
- UI
- Axure
- Responsive Web Design
- Sketch
About Company
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
