Lead UI/UX Designer, Jam City
$108.5-158.5k
Mobile gaming developer
Job no longer available
Mobile gaming developer
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$108.5-158.5k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide unique and deeply engaging mobile games that are played by tens of millions of people across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to own UX and UI design from concept to launch
- Strong experience with training UX/UI Designers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent visual design sense
- Firm grasp of the pillars of usability and engageability
- Expertise in Art software (Photoshop, Illustrator, or others), UX design software (Figma, Sketch, or XD), and version control software
- Experience with UI/UX workflows inside Unity, including setting up prefabs, implementing UI art, and best practices
- Excellent collaboration skills
- Understanding of heuristics, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, and other psychological principles that create the foundation for UX design
- Ability to articulate design decisions to teammates both within and outside of the UI/UX department
Desirable
- Experience creating animated mockups of UI flows and transition -prototypes
- Flash and or After Effects knowledge
What the job involves
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, UI/UX department, game design and engineering to define, design and implement fun and innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
- Execute at all stages of the product from concept to final product launch
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Present designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and stakeholders while clearly communicating design rationale
Our take
Jam City is a game development company behind some of the most popular mobile games played today, including Jurassic World Alive, Disney EmoJi Blitz and Cookie Jam. The company differentiates itself from others in this with its focus on licensed properties, holding deals with Disney and Warner Brothers among others to produce games featuring their characters. This instant brand recognition has vaulted it to a strong market position, with billions of games downloaded and over $4 billion in sales to date.
Despite extremely strong investor backing and a solid revenue stream, the company has encountered difficulties in the market. After scrapping plans to go public through a merger in 2021, it reduced its headcount to bring its operations in line with market conditions. Having also reshuffled its leadership team, it is now in a stronger position for sustained growth going forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$175m
LATE VC
Jan 2019
$145m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $477m
Company benefits
- We have several choices of medical plans with a range of coverage levels and costs, including a 100% employer-covered plan
- Healthy teeth and gums are important to your overall wellness. Jam City has 2 PPO plan options
- Your eyes are important to us. We offer vision coverage so you can save money on eligible eye care expenses
- So you can focus on you, we offer access to a free personal health assistant
- Regular, full-time employees are eligible to take up to 12 weeks of paid parental benefit within the one-year period
- Jam City has an online community to meet and exchange stories, tips, and joy with your fellow Jam Citizen Parents
- 5 days for Kin Care for family members including (but not limited to) your grandparents, siblings and pets
- You can purchase supplemental life insurance in addition to the Company-paid Life and Accidental Death (AD&D) insurance provided to you on day one
- Start saving for a financially secure retirement with the Jam City 401(k) savings plan—it has benefits that beat other savings accounts
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid Sick Time
- Wellbeing Programs
- Casual Dress
- Company Events
- Dog-Friendly Offices
Company HQ
Hayden Tract, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Josh Yguado
(CEO)Former Investment Banker at ING. Since then, has been in Strategic Planning at MTV Networks/Nickelodeon, and Strategy & Business Development at Fox Networks Group. Was previously COO of Jam City since its founding but has stepped up to CEO in January 2023.
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