UI/UX Designer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Oregon.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete UX for data-driven actions and player interactions across core card gameplay, persistence, progression, and associated metagame systems.

• Convert game design objectives, rules, and system data into information architecture, user journeys, screen flows, wireframes, prototypes, and specifications ready for implementation.

• Establish interaction behaviors, content hierarchy, states, transitions, edge cases, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.

• Collaborate with game design, UI art, engineering, production, QA, and external stakeholders throughout the process from concept to implementation, validation, and delivery.

• Lead UX reviews, articulate design rationale, address feedback, and ensure a consistent player experience.

• Validate designs through playtests, usability assessments, and player feedback, followed by iterative improvements.

• Develop reusable UX patterns and documentation methodologies.

• Scope and plan your work, identify risks and dependencies, and provide guidance to designers working on interconnected flows.

• Act as a senior UI/UX individual contributor and the primary experience-design owner for a prominent digital collectible card game.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong skills in interaction design and systems thinking.

• Proven experience in translating complex rules, data, and state changes into clear player actions and feedback.

• Expertise in information architecture, user flows, wireframing, interactive prototyping, and annotated production specifications.

• Strong knowledge of visual hierarchy, usability, accessibility, readability, and consistency in data-rich interfaces.

• Ability to foresee alternate states, transitions, edge cases, error conditions, and content scaling.

• Proficiency with Figma or similar UI/UX design and prototyping tools.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with UI artists and engineers during implementation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• A minimum of five years of professional experience in UI/UX, product design, or game design.

• Contributions to two or more released games or similar production projects, including at least one feature or system developed from concept to delivery.

• Experience with free-to-play collectible card games is highly desirable.

• Background in designing UI/UX for digital collectible card games, deck-builders, strategy games, or other data-intensive gaming systems.

• Experience owning elements related to persistence, progression, collection, or other interrelated metagame experiences.

• Familiarity with licensed intellectual property or co-development environments involving external partner reviews.

• Knowledge of in-engine UI frameworks, proprietary UI tools, or implementation processes.

• Ability to use usability studies, playtest insights, or telemetry to assess and enhance player flows.

• A portfolio showcasing ownership of complex interaction flows, design rationale, iterations, cross-discipline collaboration, and final results is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• 401K plan with employer matching.

• Employer-paid life insurance policy.

• Generous paid time off.

• 18 paid company holidays.

• Relocation assistance.

• Paid parental leave.

• Employee assistance program.

• Discounts at fitness clubs.

• Sponsorship for sports teams.

• Annual company events.

• Project wrap parties.

• Flexibility to choose remote, in-office, or hybrid work arrangements.

• Opportunity for extension or transition to regular full-time employment after six months.