UX Designer

Position Overview: We are looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to join the Zynga Poker team. As a Senior Designer you’ll shape the end to end experience for a live, social, real-time competitive game for millions of players globally where clarity, trust, and delight matter every hand played. What You’ll Do: - Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield extraordinary experiences for our players. - Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation. - Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results. - Create UI design/layouts. - Collaborate with the art team to define/adhere to a thematic art style. - Design functional animation for user interactions. - Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing. - Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs. - Conduct heuristic evaluations of internal & external products. - Partner with technical artists and engineers to ensure designs will work well in the game engine. - Set examples, guides, and standard methodologies in UI/UX for others in your game team. - Lead and participate in company-wide UI/UX community events, critiques, product reviews, and feature retrospectives. What You Bring: - Education: Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area required. A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree. - 5+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI, having worked on 3+ different game titles. - A portfolio with relevant industry/personal work. - Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced setting. Be able to rapidly develop new skills and behaviors in response to changing circumstances. - Ability to present complex ideas to diverse audiences and articulate a convincing point of view. - Highly proficient written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing. - Ability to utilize new tools and technologies as they evolve with AI. - Ability to prioritize tasks, work efficiency, handle time effectively, and complete your work with minimal oversight. - Proactive self-development and interest in leveling up personal, interpersonal, and craft skills. - An authority on the UX Design process: Defining usability challenges, researching the problem space, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, designing appropriate solutions, and validating ideas through testing. - Experienced expert in designing for games vs. task completion, specifically supporting fun and engagement. - High degree of competence in assessing and addressing product usability and applying user psychology. - An accomplished expert with prototyping design software. - An accomplished expert in user interface layout design, hierarchy, color theory, and information architecture. - Can consistently produce high-quality visual assets for user interfaces.