UX Designer, Twitch
Contract
$80-$90/hr, partially based on location
Gaming-focused livestream platform
Job no longer available
Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$80-$90/hr, partially based on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated strong UX and visual design skills through building solutions end to end for large-scale, complex systems
- Contributed to UI guidelines for a pattern library
- Produced prototypes for user research and engineering
- 3+ years of professional experience
- Empathy for the people using your software or products
What the job involves
- Contract Length: 6 months
- As a User Experience Design Contractor at Twitch, you will produce high-quality experiences which bring joy to people all over the world.
- UX designers are involved in every step of the process, from early brainstorming and definition with Product Managers and User Researchers, through to working with engineering to ensure the final product exceeds customer expectations
- In this role you will work with our Creator Growth team, building tools related to video management, short form content, analytics and more
- Deliver a cross-platform user experience that is simple and elegant
- Present and communicate your designs and rationale to the team and greater organization
- Create detailed wire-frames, beautiful mockups, amazing prototypes, and help implement your designs to pixel perfection
- Test, learn, and iterate on everything you do
- Collaborate and communicate with a development team of product managers, engineers, and designers
- Refine existing patterns and components
- Combine qualitative and quantitative information to develop hypotheses about customer motivations and use that to improve your designs
- Present and participate in design reviews and feedback sessions
Our take
Twitch is the world's leading video platform for gamers, allowing users to livestream gaming sessions and curate a dedicated community for their content. By dedicating the platform to gaming alone, it has amassed a loyal following of fans, and been able to launch its Partner Program where streamers can monetize their livestreams, incorporate corporate partnerships, and even attend TwitchCon, a convention where dedicated gamers can socialize.
Twitch's acquisition by Amazon in 2014 saw its viewers double in a year, bringing the platform to a wider audience. However, with YouTube streaming popularity on the rise, it has big competition to contend with, as some popular streamers prefer going live on the video giant. Interestingly, a recent move by the platform was to enable its partner streamers to make live content on other platforms - previously inhibited by its exclusivity clause - which may combat the possibility of losing streamers permanently to YouTube.
In 2022, Twitch had to contend with backlash for its proposal to cut creator income by reducing their cut of subscription earnings. However, with the plan only affecting a minute number of creators, the controversy appears to have died down. Needless to say, Twitch is for now entirely comfortable in the market - with possible plans to extend past gaming bringing the chance to generate more popularity yet.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2013
$20m
SERIES C
Sep 2012
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $43.2m
Company HQ
Belden Place, San Francisco, CA
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