Senior Technical UI Designer

Description

Bungie is seeking a Senior Technical UI Designer to join our UI/UX discipline in an environment of passion, creativity, and refinement! This design role will focus on implementation of established design specs using sophisticated, proprietary authoring tools while simultaneously helping to shape our designs, visuals, and animations. The ideal candidate will be both visually creative and technologically savvy.

Responsibilities

• Learn and then independently utilize proprietary software tools and pipeline processes to implement visual designs (including visual elements like text, bitmaps, and animations) to a fully-functional state
• Collaborate with engineering on toolbox, technical requirements, and data flows
• Creatively solve design problems, taking into account UX principles and technical limitations, in collaboration with the rest of the team
• Devise and champion best practices for implementation in the areas of structure, organization, reusability, and maintainability
• Communicate with parties involved in each aspect of an interface in order to complete UI content tasks
• Design and produce graphics for UI content utilizing graphics software applications
• Work on final design and visual polish of various in-game elements, as needed

Required Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience in the field of technical implementation and deployment of large-scale games or software solutions
• Excellent skills in implementing a fully functional and visually polished User Interface
• Excellent understanding of UX methodology, UI mechanics, and Design theory
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• An understanding of graphics optimization and engine constraints
• Fearless and creative approach to solving challenging, complex problems
• Strong organization skills and the ability to follow established conventions
• Technical ability to pick up complex authoring tools quickly
• Passion for making industry leading game UI

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Scripting/programming experience
• Experience working in Agile and using a User-Centered Design process
• Previous working experience in games across multiple platforms
• Good eye for Motion Graphics and Visual Effects
• A passionate gamer who understands the unique characteristics of a good overall user experience in entertainment and game design theory