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Senior UX Designer - Candy Crush
2 years ago
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Job Description:
Candy Crush Saga is building a world- class in- house UX team. We seek a Senior UX Designer to bring their passion for games, design, and user research to craft delightful and player- centric experiences for our players worldwide.
Your role within the Kingdom
Your role is to craft experiences that surprise, engage and delight our global Candy Crush Saga audience.
The role requires someone versatile and prepared to take on various creative challenges on a worldwide scale. Across all stages of the design process, you will work closely with other designers, writers, engineers, researchers, and business stakeholders to uncover new opportunities, examine hypotheses through user testing, execute compelling design ideations, and develop end- to- end solutions which bring simplicity, intuition, and delight to complex systems.
Roles and Responsibilities
- You have an enthusiastic and solution- focused attitude - you’re determined to ascertain the best outcome for all projects within a collaborative team.
- You deeply value the importance of an elegant and efficient design process.
- You have proven success in strategic and design thinking along with validated expertise in content strategy, system design, usability, analytics, user testing and information architecture.
- You possess strong oral, written and social skills to express the rationale behind design decisions articulately.
- You can present and articulate the vision purposefully and thoughtfully, and your design sensibility and a keen eye for aesthetics are unparalleled.
- You work closely with UX researchers to ensure that the product is going in the right direction - and when it’s not, you work with product leads and designers to iterate accordingly.
- You explore new business opportunities and practices, tooling, and UX theories to enhance our methodological toolkits.
- You mentor less experienced designers to build their skills, communication abilities, and design processes.
- You ensure the necessary processes and resources for successful delivery, business outcomes and team success.
Skills to create the thrills
- Knowledge of technical constraints, optimisation and implementation
- Knowledge of and an interest in game design and freemium best practices
- Experience working in an agile project environment
- Experience working with Game Design and Narrative
- Experience running co- creation sessions with product, design, and engineering
About King
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.
We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the
company.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!
Applications needs to be in English.
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