Senior UX/UI Designer

Position:
Senior UX Designer - Poker

Company:
Zynga

Location:
United States, Austin, TX

Employment type:
Not Specified

Work Arrangement:
Not Specified

Short Summary:
We are looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to join the Zynga Poker team. As a Senior Designer, you’ll shape the end-to-end experience for a live, social, real-time competitive game for millions of players globally where clarity, trust, and delight matter every hand played.

Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield extraordinary experiences for our players.
- Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation.
- Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results.
- Create UI design/layouts.
- Collaborate with the art team to define/adhere to a thematic art style.
- Design functional animation for user interactions.
- Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing.
- Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs.
- Conduct heuristic evaluations of internal & external products.
- Partner with technical artists and engineers to ensure designs will work well in the game engine.
- Set examples, guides, and standard methodologies in UI/UX for others in your game team.
- Lead and participate in company-wide UI/UX community events, critiques, product reviews, and feature retrospectives.

Requirement:
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area required.
- 5+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI, having worked on 3+ different game titles.
- A portfolio with relevant industry/personal work.
- Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced setting.
- Highly proficient written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing.
- An authority on the UX Design process: Defining usability challenges, researching the problem space, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, designing appropriate solutions, and validating ideas through testing.
- Experienced expert in designing for games vs. task completion, specifically supporting fun and engagement.

Benefits:
Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site.