Lead UX Designer

Responsibilities

Collaborate with UX / UI Director and key game development stakeholders to ensure all Diablo IV features achieve game goals and improve player experience

Coach, mentor and support your team members to grow and advance

Establish and maintain strong relationships with game development stakeholders

Work as part of Diablo UX / UI lead team, develop Diablo UX / UI maturity and create healthy team culture with lead peers

Continually evaluate the UX / UI based on feedback from users, user research, game designers, product managers and etc

Identify opportunities to improve implementation standards, process, and collaborative workflows

Support interface screens implementation using efficient and flexible layout design

Review and iterate with your team to ensure features are built to design specifications and presentation / interaction to both look pixel perfect and feel great

Qualifications

Minimum 7 years of experience as a UX designer, interaction designer, or similar on public products

Minimum 3 years of experience as a lead or people manager in design field

Experience with UX implementation in a modern engine or platform (e.g. Unity, Unreal or HTML5)

Ability to adhere to a projects existing visual and interaction patterns

Experience with designing for multiple control schemes (e.g. Controllers, Mouse & Keyboard and / or Touch Screen etc.)

Positive attitude around receiving and providing objective feedback

A passion for video games, user experience design and userinterfacedesign

A portfolio showing a solid grasp of usability design principles, user flows and prototypes you have created for UI screens, as well as samples of your visual design ability

Pluses

Passion for the Diablo franchise and ARPG genre.

Interests in nurturing a healthy game community.

Experience designing interfaces for a variety of platforms and / or control schemes.

And yeah, you will need these things to apply

Resume.

Portfolio demonstrating relevant skills. Only online work submissions, please. (e.g. website, blog or online album).

Willingness to complete a test if requested to do so.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. ( a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ : MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including :

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.