UI/UX Director

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the UI/UX vision for Marathon, effectively driving and communicating it based on creative and production priorities.

• Ensure the highest standards of UI/UX quality, design craftsmanship, and consistency, while holding UI/UX teams accountable for meeting the established vision and objectives.

• Prioritize the UI/UX backlog, deconstructing UI/UX challenges for the UI/UX Leads to manage and updating other leaders on progress.

• Foster alignment within the Director leadership group regarding UI/UX goals, constraints, and implementation strategies.

• Collaborate with the Executive Producer to ensure teams have the appropriate resources aligned with the size and shape of objectives, including strategies for utilizing external development.

• Develop and advocate for best practices in the UI/UX process.

• Engage in collaborative creative problem-solving for product-wide challenges that extend beyond UI/UX.

• Partner with the Executive Producer and Engineering Director to address the goals and requirements for UI Technical Design, Visual Design, and UI/UX tools and workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a UI/UX Director responsible for developing and implementing the UI/UX vision for large-scale, multiplatform, live-service competitive FPS games.

• Ability to creatively align and collaborate with other director-level discipline leaders to define and dissect problem spaces.

• Experience leading UI/UX teams in formulating philosophy, processes, capabilities, and execution.

• In-depth experience with the philosophy, process, design, documentation, and workflows of UI/UX systems.

• Expertise in guiding UI/UX teams to translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear goals, strategies, and tactics with measurable hypotheses and tracking metrics.

• Define what successful UI/UX collaboration and integration entails with other disciplines, including User Research.

• Manage the UI/UX discipline, which includes defining roles, performance expectations, overseeing the hiring process, and building a highly effective team.

• Extensive demonstrated ability to work independently, driving tasks to completion efficiently and reliably.

• Proactive in making design decisions and solving issues with a focus on the broader impact on the overall project.

• Strong social intelligence, excellent interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Matching 401(k)

• Paid time off

• Wellness program

• Coveted employee discounts for Sony products