Design Principal

ustwo Games
New York, New York, United States
29 days ago
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At ustwo, we design and build digital products, services, and immersive experiences that people love and lead to business growth. Increasingly, we help our clients boost their digital culture and capabilities.

ustwo is looking for a Design Principal to join our design team in the NYC studio. We are a global studio committed to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives. We work across the entire product lifecycle, from visioning and discovery, validating propositions to launching products and services that are valuable to both users and businesses. As a result, we have a lasting and transformative effect on the companies and organizations we work with.

To meet these opportunities, our design team is made up of versatile designers who have and are constantly developing and broadening their wide skill sets and deepening their process knowledge. Our designers are skilled, confident, and multi-faceted, collaborating across all disciplines involved in the product and service development process.

We believe passionately that diverse teams help us make better services and products. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, stories and backgrounds. It adds value and impact to our clients and industry.

About the role

As a Design Principal at ustwo, you will partner with global design leadership and global and local design teams to enable a differentiated design service that delivers measurable value to our clients and our business.

Your experience spans winning new business, delivering brilliant, impactful work, and fostering a strong design culture and teams.

We will look to you to create deep, effective partnerships with our clients, to define and deliver work that creates lasting value, and to have an inclusive and inspirational leadership style essential to maintaining a diverse, inclusive culture within project teams. As someone skilled at managing others, you are comfortable adapting your approach to the needs of each member without compromising on honest feedback and keeping fairness front and center.

Location

This role is based in our Brooklyn studio at 20 Jay Street. We have a hybrid policy: you're required to be in the studio on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and you can choose between studio or remote work for the rest of the week. Able to travel, from time to time.

Design & Leadership Responsibilities

In this position, you will:

Who we're looking for

We're seeking a designer who embodies the following distinguishing qualities:

Compensation and benefits

The base salary range for this full-time role is between $170,000 and $205,000. The actual salary amount within this range will depend on the candidate's experience, skillset, market knowledge, and the salaries of current employees in similar roles. We benchmark our salaries regularly against competitive market data, so these ranges are subject to change.

Full-time employees also qualify for ustwo's Profit Share Scheme, in which the studio group shares up to one-third of operating profits with all employees, subject to hitting certain safety thresholds and targets.

Additionally, all full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

Please provide a link to your online portfolio and any released products or experiences you have contributed to.

Interested but think your experience doesn’t perfectly align with this job description? That’s ok. Research shows underrepresented groups in particular are less inclined to apply for jobs where they don’t meet 100% of the requirements listed. We’d still love to hear from you if you feel passionate about this role! We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our colleagues, clients, community, and the users of our products. We don’t have all the answers, but we’re on a journey, and we are learning together

About ustwo

ustwo combines expertise in product and service development, ventures and gaming to make a meaningful impact on the challenges companies and individuals face in contemporary culture.

Over the years, we have been carving out a reputation in the space between digital product development and new experience design.

Our deep product development knowledge, our design heritage and our leadership at the edges of technology and culture, means we are capable of providing fresh creative and strategic direction on genuinely new experiences, as well as deep technical expertise on implementation - never disconnecting strategy from implementation.

This combination of capabilities is rare and valuable, particularly in a market that’s seeing ever-increasing convergence of entertainment, gaming, content, commerce, and platforms.

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