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About the Role
As a Principal Designer on the Zynga Poker team, you will shape the end-to-end experience for a live, social, real-time competitive game played by millions globally, where clarity, trust, and delight are paramount.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield extraordinary player experiences.
- Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation.
- Employ the classic design process: defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results.
- Create UI design/layouts.
- Collaborate with the art team to define and adhere to a thematic art style.
- Design functional animation for user interactions.
- Participate in the planning and moderation of user testing.
- Conduct market competitor research and deconstructions.
- Conduct heuristic evaluations of internal and external products.
- Partner with technical artists and engineers to ensure designs are compatible with the game engine.
- Set examples, guide, and establish standard methodologies in UI/UX for your game team.
- Lead and participate in company-wide UI/UX community events, critiques, product reviews, and feature retrospectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or a related area, or a combination of education and experience.
- 6+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI, with experience on 3+ different game titles.
- A portfolio showcasing relevant industry/personal work.
- Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced setting, rapidly developing 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 efficiently, handle time effectively, and complete work with minimal oversight.
- Proactive self-development and interest in leveling up personal, interpersonal, and craft skills.
- 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 versus task completion, specifically supporting fun and engagement.
- High degree of competence in assessing and addressing product usability and applying user psychology.
- Accomplished expert with prototyping design software.
- Accomplished expert in user interface layout design, hierarchy, color theory, and information architecture.
- Ability to consistently produce high-quality visual assets for user interfaces.
Skills
- UX/UI
- Game Development
- User Flows
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Design Documentation
- UI Design
- Layout Design
- Animation Design
- User Testing
- Market Research
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Prototyping Design Software
- User Interface Layout Design
- Hierarchy
- Color Theory
- Information Architecture
- Visual Asset Creation
- AI Tools
Location
- Ontario
- California
- Illinois
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- 6+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area
Salary/Compensations
- Ontario: $96,400 - $142,660 CAD per Year
- California: $123,200 - $170,000 USD per Year
- Illinois: $107,000 - $150,000 USD per Year
Benefits
- World-class benefits package
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year
- Paid vacation time (15 to 25 days) or eligibility for discretionary time off program
- Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
- Paid parental and compassionate leave
- Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
- Family planning support through Maven
- Commuter benefits
- Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses
- Eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan
- Eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program
About the Company
- Zynga brings people together through the power of play as a global leader in interactive entertainment and a label of Take-Two Interactive.
- Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, Zynga's teams span North America, Europe, and Asia.
- Zynga crafts unforgettable gaming experiences with a diverse portfolio including FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, and many more.
Equal Opportunity
- Zynga is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds.
- Employment is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic, not on protected characteristics.
- Zynga provides necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments.
- Zynga does not conduct interviews or make offers over third-party messaging apps and does not engage in financial exchanges during recruitment.
- Zynga's in-house recruitment team only contacts individuals through official Company email addresses.