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Senior UI/UX Designer
1 year ago
Are you a top-talent Senior UI/UX Designer with a passion for gaming?
Join us to create the UI/UX for an exceptional leading platform for competitive mobile games. Enhance the experience of millions of Skillz players worldwide. If you have experience creating UI/UX for games, then show us that you can work with some of the best in the industry.
Over fourteen thousand developers have launched Skillz games. Players compete in 6M tournaments a day, winning $100M in prizes each month. Our mission is to bring fun and fair social competition to casual games, enabling developers to create multi-million dollar franchises.
Creating the UI/UX for mobile games is fun, challenging, and rewarding. Our teams love to ship features, so you’ll be expected to deliver high quality UI/UX by partnering closely with PM’s and engineers and being the CEO of your work. We value action over words, clarity over ambiguity, and testing over assumptions.
You’ll be mentored and supported by our Head of Product Design. In turn, we expect you to mentor others as you grow in your career at Skillz.
Our Values
- Honor
- Mission
- Collaboration
- Productivity
- Willingness
- Frugality
- Balance
What You'll Do
- Work end-to-end, tackling complex user needs from sketching to low and high fidelity prototypes
- Own feature designs that create engaging and immersive mobile experiences across multiple device types on iOS & Android
- Leverage solid design rationale to create intuitive platform experiences that engages and delights players
- Gain a deep understanding of our target users through observations, research, and analytics so that you can champion their needs
- Be the champion of our target users by deeply understanding their needs through observations, research, and analytics
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other designers to incorporate feedback and uncover compelling design solutions
- Think about design as a system, contributing to and maintaining our design system in order to influence quality and efficiency for all our teams and products
Requirements
- Game UI/UX experience, preferably mobile
- 4+ years of professional experience as a UX or Product Designer, showing the skill needed to operate at a senior level
- Portfolio that showcases sound product thinking and strong design rationale through navigation, user flows, interaction design, and information architecture
- Portfolio that demonstrates strong understanding of how users engage with the aesthetics of a product through the use of typography, color, imagery, layout, and grid systems
- Ability to manage deadlines and collaborate in a cross functional environment
- Capable of supporting your designs with strong rationale, research, and effective communication
- Experience with motion design and animation is HUGE plus
Along with your resume, please include a link to your portfolio and a password if needed.
About Skillz
Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for a booming mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with access to fun and fair competition for real prizes, shifting the paradigm to make esports accessible to anyone, anywhere.
Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world’s 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 20,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host billions of casual esports tournaments for 30 million players worldwide.
Last year, Skillz was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies. In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America.
The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.
Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000, and in May 2021, Skillz was awarded “ Best Places to Work ”.
Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .