Peoplefun - UX Designer - Richardson, TX

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Company: Peoplefun

Job Title: UX Designer

Role Type: UX Designer

Experience Level: Mid-level, Senior, Legendary

Permanent or Contract Length: Permanent

Location: Richardson, TX

Job Description: Description

About PeopleFun



PeopleFun is a rapidly growing studio where development teams thrive on collaboration, creativity, and fun! Our mission is to create the best family-friendly casual games in the mobile market while having a great time doing it.



Job Summary



PeopleFun seeks a multitalented UX Designer who has a passion for games, especially in the casual/mobile space. You’ll work on game features for our (new &) existing projects that are seen by millions of players daily! As a UX Designer at PeopleFun, you will be an integral part of the pipeline; designing and creating awesome looking and endearing experiences for all of our players. You will be surrounded by passionate people who will challenge you to become an even better game developer every single day.



About You



You inspire team members and stakeholders and help create captivating and endearing game experiences

Your game-design and layout-design feedback is creative and constructive

You’re always looking to learn, and looking at what is working in our industry, and trends that we may want to adopt for current or upcoming features

You understand game design processes and can also think like a player to give thoughts and insight on what can make the best experience

You always know what to do and how to tackle problems in an ever changing environment

Responsibilities



Produce wireframes, pre-visualization prototypes, full play-through flows & walk-throughs, mock-ups and design documentation for the team

Help facilitate cross-functional design discussions/workshopping sessions and represent the voice of the player during these sessions

Be a champion for UX design standards and help educate team members on usability best practices

And you will design user interfaces and interaction architecture to work with a variety of game features





Important: To be considered, please provide a cover letter to explain, in your own words, your interest in this position and why you feel you'd be a great fit.



Requirements

Proficiency with visual design tools (e.g. Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Balsamiq etc.) and pre-visualization/prototyping tools (e.g. Invision, Figma, Proto.io, Adobe XD, Flinto etc.)

A demonstrated knowledge of UX best practices, ideally through work samples or a portfolio that can validate your approach to experience design

Ability to understand the key pillars of a game or feature and iterate toward the best player experience possible

Ability to communicate clearly your design by referencing the best practices and expanding on comps that inspire solutions being presented to the team

Comfortable with flexibility on what UX role and support looks like per feature. The ability to give meaningful feedback to design documents to the ability to own the entire UX process by assisting a feature design through its life-cycle .



Valuable Additional Skills



A gamer who not only understands, but deconstructs successful UX across core and casual games

Familiarity with user research trends/procedures and experience organizing/conducting usability tests on proprietary products

UI experience and knowledge of visual/graphic design best practices

Familiarity with feature design in the mobile free-to-play gaming space

Working knowledge of the Unity game development platform

Experience working within a sprint structure alongside a multi-disciplined team

At least one launched mobile gaming title

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Performance bonuses

401K with 3% employer matching

Family friendly culture

Flex PTO policy

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

On-site gym and free Yoga classes

$1,000 annual game device and IAP budget

Free drinks & snacks, catered lunch on Fridays

Happy hours, social events and more





PeopleFun is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law..





Posted By: John Brown - john....@peoplefun.com

More Information: https://apply.workable.com/peoplefun/j/73E705A5CF/