Principal UX Designer
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Job Summary
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UX & UIJob Description:
We craft brilliant games of mass appeal that bring moments of magic to everyday life. Were seriously playful; we balance art and science learn fast and support each other to deliver outsized impact.
Your role within our Kingdom
If you love designing complex systems that help internal teams work smarter and ultimately make players happier this is your playground.
As a Principal UX Designer in the Player Experience Operations (PXO) group focused on Live Operations youll help shape the UX strategy and the tools that help game teams observe player behavior decide on actions and deliver live updates quickly - what we call the Observe-Decide-Act loop. Youll create clarity in ambiguity evolve shared standards and systems and partner with product and engineering to deliver faster smarter Live Ops at scale. Your work will create a more seamless user experience across tools make systems easier to use and help teams deliver player value faster.
What youll do
Strategy & Systems
Lead the UX strategy for key LiveOps systems (such as our internal operations and experimentation platforms) connecting user needs to the foundational tools that help teams deliver improvements faster.
Lead the evolution of our Unified Design Standards our internal design-system foundation by defining shared components usage guidelines and best practices that improve quality and speed.
Partner closely with Product Managers Engineers Data Scientists and Machine-Learning specialists to run discovery shape problem spaces and success measures and land stepchange improvements in highvalue loops.
Delivery & Craft
Design end-to-end systems from information architecture and interaction design to workflow orchestration that simplify complex internal tools improve user velocity and enable confident experimentation.
Promote an evidence-driven design culture using research and usage data to guide design decisions
Leadership & Influence
Coach Senior Designers and champion design quality across our LiveOps and Shared Tech teams.
Create shared clarity: document vision key decisions and trade-offs; facilitate alignment across Live Ops and game teams to keep work moving.
Work closely with frontend and platform engineers to explore feasibility early ensure usability and accessibility and deliver high-quality experiences.
Skills to create thrills
Extensive experience in UX with recent senior-level or principal experience leading complex systems or platforms; portfolio shows outcomes (metrics learning impact) not just artifacts.
Mastery in interaction design information architecture and systems thinking; experience building or maintaining large-scale design systems ensuring consistency and quality across teams.
Strong research integration; understands when and how to use qualitative and quantitative research methods and how to translate insights into product decisions and standards.
Exceptional communication and facilitation; aligns diverse stakeholders and collaborates effectively in complex cross-team environments with evolving goals.
Experience working with complex operational tools or data-driven internal systems
Nice to have: hands-on experience with frontend technologies (such as React) to prototype in code and work closely with engineers.
Ways of working
Hybrid; primary hub Stockholm with collaboration across distributed teams.
Youll collaborate with leaders from Product Engineering and Data across our Shared Technology organization and game teams.
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 Malmö 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- CSS
- InVision
- Balsamiq
- HTML5
- Information Architecture
- Ux
- Usability
- Wireframing
- UI
- Axure
- Responsive Web Design
- Sketch
About Company
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world’s largest interactive entertainment company, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, ... View more
