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Senior UX Designer
2 years ago
Ripple Effect, an evolution of Battlefield's DICE LA, is a Los Angeles-based game studio on a mission to build community-first experiences through continuous innovation and boundary breaking technology.
Our Values: We believe in an honest and transparent environment, where developers grow in our crafts. We value bold risk-taking followed by excellence through iteration. We are looking for developers with diverse experiences who will enrich our studio creativity.
We are looking for an experienced UX Designer like you, to join us in our mission to create amazing games and experiences, and to improve ourselves and our craft. You will work on an exciting new project at the studio and report to our Studio Design Line Director, based in our studio in Los Angeles, California. We are considering on-site and hybrid working options, and welcome full-time remote candidates who are within a three hour time difference to the Pacific Time Zone to apply.
Responsibilities:
- Work with, and take direction from, the design director and lead UX designer to take important UX-heavy features from concept to completion on a large project
- Work with other designers and engineers, to understand and determine UX goals for new and evolving features
- Independently design solutions: concepts, wireframes, and prototypes while iterating based on your research, team feedback, and user feedback
- Create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups to conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors for multiple environments and audiences
- Work within Frostbite engine to implement your work through iterative prototyping, ensuring they make for the best possible player experience
- Document and promote awareness of UX standards, and push to improve UX design workflow processes
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in UX design
- Shipped at least 1 game or large-scale project, in a UX design role
- Passion for games and user-centered design and a fascination for understanding how users experience a product
- Proficient in user experience design tools (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe XD, Figma, Axure, or Omnigraffle)
- Understand the importance of documentation and teaching others
- Enjoy creative problem-solving, and value respectful feedback processes
- Broad taste in games
Valuable additional skills:
- Experience developing UX for AAA games, multiplayer games, live service games or FPS genre
- Understand interaction design on console, pc and mobile
- Interest in user generated content for games
- Comfortable with technical implementation; use game editors, scripting languages and tools
- Degree in Interaction Design, Psychology, Human Factors, Industrial Engineering or related HCI discipline
Benefits:
We are proud of the great perks we offer like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that appreciates creativity and individuality.
Next Steps:
As part of the application process we might ask you to complete a practical work exercise. Apply online with a resume and portfolio.
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