Senior UI/UX Designer, Zynga
Echtra Games
$75.1-134.8k
Salary dependent on location
Social game developer
Job no longer available
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$75.1-134.8k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate should possess a multidisciplinary skillset in UI design, UX design, and a familiarity with the Unreal Engine
- We are looking for an enthusiastic team-player with a proven track record of guiding user experience initiatives from inception to delivery, with a strong focus on player satisfaction and usability
- Education: Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area; a combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UI
Desirable
- Familiarity with ARPG UI and UX
- Experience developing UI and UX for a wide range of screen sizes and resolutions
- Shipped titles on console
- Unreal Material development
- 3D skillset
What the job involves
- Echtra Games is looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer to join our growing team for a new AAA PC and Console ARPG project
- We are looking for a Senior UI/UX designer who is dedicated to creating exceptional player-focused games
- Develop design specs into well crafted Figma documents and prototypes
- Actively pursue and gather feedback to ensure feature goals are satisfied
- Iterate over existing designs to ensure usability
- Maintain, evolve and contribute to our design system
- Shepherd features from prototype to engine
- Provide creative solutions to complex problems
- Documentation of your work is tidy and can adhere to naming conventions and structures of existing designs
- Highly competent written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing
- Ability to co-work and communicate with multiple studio locations, teams, and partners
- Able to collaborate with proactive communication and a willingness to build consensus with competing perspectives
- Ability to prioritize tasks, work efficiently, manage time effectively, and deliver work with minimal oversight
- Demonstrate proactive self-development with interest in leveling up personal, interpersonal, and craft skills
- Find opportunities to mentor, share your knowledge, insight, and experiences with others
- Technical
- Design and Prototype in Figma
- Document design work in Figjam / Confluence
- Strong understanding of Unreal’s UMG and ability to build widgets and materials to support your work
- Strong sense of visual hierarchy / value structure
- Fundamentals of animation
- Clean and modern design philosophy
- Figma / Adobe Creative Suite
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 175 countries and regions and over 80 million 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. Notable recent activity includes a collaboration with BBC Earth ahead of 2024's Earth day, and grant to develop actionable push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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)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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