Job description
What we are looking for:
We are seeking an innovative and experienced UX Design Director to join our talented and passionate team working on our unannounced project. This is a unique opportunity to work on an exciting and upcoming project, shaping the user experience for an ambitious new title. As a UX Design Director, you will contribute to creating immersive and engaging experiences that resonate with our global player community.
What we will do together:
- Champion and be accountable for the quality of UX Design within the studio, working with an existing team and studio management to clarify what good looks like within the discipline
- Develop, evolve and lead the vision for UX Design within a cross-functional development environment across the entire game, ensuring that your team meets players’ moment-to-moment UX needs with the same level of excellence as platform-level metagame features such as monetization, social systems, and long-term engagement mechanisms (e.g., challenges and passes).
- Lead through influence and collaborate across all development Disciplines and levels, ensuring that developers know exactly how and where UX does its work, the value it brings, and how it is specifically solving problems the players will face
- Drive innovative UX solutions that align with both core design and product requirements while enhancing the player experience.
- Drive and deliver a vision for scalable UX frameworks that support multiple platforms in the same ecosystem (PC, Console, Mobile.)
- Present data-informed design decisions and solutions to team members, backed by clear rationale. Help your team to validate their designs to know when the work is truly done.
- Benchmark competing games and apply key insights to improve UI/UX design.
- Create and iterate on prototypes for new features and user flows, refining them based on feedback.
- Build game progression systems, user flows, and journey maps, communicating design rationale effectively.
What you will bring:
- 8+ years working on live service games’ UX design.
- Experience driving UX vision while building and managing a team of UX designers toward excellence, sharing accountability for both the development of software and the development of the people whom you lead.
- Priority for our players when making design decisions considering their diversity, limitations to their cognitive and physical abilities, etc.
- Data-informed designs.
- Proficient in user experience design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe XD, etc)
- Create clear and informative documentation.
- Have a strong sense for when the game’s graphic design supports or undermines the usability needs of a feature.
- Experienced with developing UX/UI on AAA games.
- Mobile game and Unreal Engine knowledge a plus
- Comfortable with prototyping in game engines, using editor tools/scripts.
- This role reports directly to the Game Director.
Interested… a bit about Escape Velocity:
Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits, on what we believe is a unique project with a committed publisher. But that doesn’t necessarily make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time.
To that end, we are ‘Fully Remote’ and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play, and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things.
A few benefits you can expect from us:
- A generous PTO allowance
- Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
- Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
- Private Mental Health scheme
- A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
- Discretionary Studio Bonus
- Top range tech for your home set up
- Other benefits based on your region
How to apply:
Click apply and complete an application along with a Resume / CV. If we would like to move forward with your application, a member of the Recruiting Team will reach out to you and guide you through our process.
Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities.
Applications will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
