Senior UX Designer

Description

• Collect product requirements from multiple departments including game design, marketing, art, medical, and company leadership
• Collaborate closely with game design to define and prioritize high-impact research through user testing and analytics
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and user flows that demonstrate user goals and behaviors
• Design and conduct qualitative and quantitative studies that address both interaction patterns and attitudes
• Drive change by communicating research with direct action items
• Provide design support during development as well as execution and post-launch
• Assist with QA to ensure designs are implemented accurately and with the highest standard
• Collaborate with medical researchers ensuring user interface content is based on solid medical reference 
• Work with producers to understand project goals, time constraints, evolving priorities, and deadlines

• 5+ years of professional experience creating user interaction content for mobile apps, console games, or mobile games
• 2+ shipped games or mobile apps worked on from inception to completion
• Deep proficiency using UX and prototyping tools (Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Proto.io, etc.)
• Proven experimental design and/or A/B testing skills; you understand how to plan, execute, and analyze experiments in a statistically rigorous way
• Able to determine and execute the right research method for the question at hand, including when to use qualitative research methods
• Approaches problems with a user-first mentality
• Strong communication skills and comfort influencing stakeholders in varied roles and at varied levels of the organization
• Willingness to look holistically at qualitative and quantitative research, identify gaps, and work cross-functionally to fill those gaps
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, interactive media, game art or similar field
• Demonstratable experience creating, iterating on, and maintaining wireframes and user flows
• Diverse portfolio examples of sketches, workflows, interactions, and end state work
• A deep understanding of the foundation and principles of UX, and how they apply to a player's experience

• Experience in Unity3D or Unreal Engine 4
• Experience creating UX for AR and/or VR
• Experience in building or incorporating tools into organizations for maximum impact across teams
• Experience in animation/motion graphics

• Multiple health insurance plans with 100% company-paid premiums
• 401(k) with company-paid match
• Dental and vision insurance 
• Pre-tax flex spending and commuter accounts
• Paid vacation, sick days and holidays
• Downtown Loop location convenient to public transportation, and plenty of nearby food options
• Unlimited cold brew and gourmet coffee, kombucha, Bevi sparkling water, and craft beer
• Full kitchen and food options including breakfast, and both healthy and comfort snacks
• Team after-hours events, like Board Game Night