Senior UX Designer, Zynga
Poker
Social game developer
Posted today
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area required. A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI, having worked on 3+ different game titles
- A portfolio with relevant industry/personal work
- Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced setting. Be able to rapidly develop new skills and behaviors in response to changing circumstances
- Ability to present complex ideas to diverse audiences and articulate a convincing point of view
- Highly proficient written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing
- Ability to utilize new tools and technologies as they evolve with AI
- Ability to prioritize tasks, work efficiency, handle time effectively, and complete your work with minimal oversight
- Proactive self-development and interest in leveling up personal, interpersonal, and craft skills
- An authority on the UX Design process: Defining usability challenges, researching the problem space, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, designing appropriate solutions, and validating ideas through testing
- Experienced expert in designing for games vs. task completion, specifically supporting fun and engagement
- High degree of competence in assessing and addressing product usability and applying user psychology
- An accomplished expert with prototyping design software
- An accomplished expert in user interface layout design, hierarchy, color theory, and information architecture
- Can consistently produce high-quality visual assets for user interfaces
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to join the Zynga Poker team. As a Senior Designer you’ll shape the end to end experience for a live, social, real-time competitive game for millions of players globally where clarity, trust, and delight matter every hand played
- Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield extraordinary experiences for our players
- Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation
- Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results
- Create UI design/layouts
- Collaborate with the art team to define/adhere to a thematic art style
- Design functional animation for user interactions
- Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing
- Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs
- Conduct heuristic evaluations of internal & external products
- Partner with technical artists and engineers to ensure designs will work well in the game engine
- Set examples, guides, and standard methodologies in UI/UX for others in your game team
- Lead and participate in company-wide UI/UX community events, critiques, product reviews, and feature retrospectives
Our take
Zynga is a games developer that rode Facebook's platform to success back in the late noughties and early 2010's. It is now one of the biggest casual game producers globally, with a presence across over 170 countries and regions and millions of monthly active users.
Though the company hit a number of roadblocks after its initial success - such as falling stock prices, and numerous calls it was copying other games - its subsequent resurgence is proof of its staying power. It continues to use social media as a distribution channel, and boasts titles such as FarmVille, Merge Dragons! and Words With Friends.
Future success will lie in the company's continued investment in building viral games that people love. It will also need to attune to the social media waves and keep track of where users can be found, as the landscape has become more mobile. In 2024 the company announced it was developing push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application, which will be an interesting addition to its outputs.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2011
$490m
SERIES C
Oct 2010
$6.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $865.5m
Company benefits
- COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
- HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
- FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies
- WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
- FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
- WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
- TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
- RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Pincus
(Chairman & Co-founder)Previously founder and CEO of Freeloader, Supportsoft and Tribe.net, an early social network
Michael Luxton
(Co-founder)Previously an engineer at NetApp
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