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About the Role

NaturalMotion Games is seeking a talented and visionary Lead UI/UX Designer to shape the player experience for an unannounced mobile title. This role involves leading the end-to-end UX and UI vision, managing a design team, and overseeing the creative process from wireframes to implementation in Unreal Engine.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX vision for Hacienda and future projects.
• Create and provide feedback on wireframes, prototypes, and design briefs.
• Present the UX vision to the team and external stakeholders.
• Oversee the design process from concept to implementation, ensuring high standards of quality.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to create cohesive and user-friendly designs.
• Utilize data and frequent testing to confirm the effectiveness of UX flows and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and maintain design guidelines, standards, and best practices.
• Stay updated with industry trends and incorporate new design techniques and tools.
• Work alongside the Art Director to ensure UI art style is appealing, accessible, and matches the overall Art style of the game.
• Execute the UI style at quality across all platforms.
• Support Marketing and rendering in presentation.
• Collaborate with Design Director to ensure UX aligns with Design pillars and vision.
• Guide development of features and systems using deep UX/UI knowledge.
• Ensure design cohesion and best practices across the team.
• Communicate design cohesion and best practices via documentation, presentations, feature reviews, and mentoring.
• Ensure efficient, futureproof systems built on component re-use.
• Review and provide feedback on UX systems, features, and UI art.
• Provide guidance to other leaders and designers.
• Lead and manage a team of UI/UX designers, both internal and external.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to the design team.
• Ensure team members are on track in their career path.
• Conduct mentoring, regular one-to-ones, and create development plans.
• Impart experience and methods to the team.
• Leverage team strengths and backgrounds to build a versatile team.

Requirements

• An experienced UX Lead/Manager/Director with shipped titles.
• Experience in Mobile development, supporting live-operations, rapid iteration, and agile development.
• Experience with live-service design methodologies and building a living game for a large community.
• Deep familiarity with developing and shipping a live-service title on time and at quality.
• Mastery of design systems, workflows, and process.
• Excellent verbal and visual communication skills.

Skills

• UX/UI vision
• Wireframing
• Prototyping
• Unreal Engine implementation
• User flow design
• Data utilization
• Testing
• Design guidelines
• Industry trend analysis
• Leadership
• Creativity
• User experience principles
• Interface design principles
• UI art style
• Design cohesion
• Mentoring
• Live-ops methodologies
• Mobile development
• Agile development
• Live-service design
• Design systems
• Workflows
• Process
• Verbal communication
• Visual communication

Location

• London, UK
• Remote

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Lead
• Manager
• Director

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays & 2 paid personal days
• 6 months fully paid maternity/adoption leave
• 16 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Pension plan, with a double matching employer contribution
• Private medical & dental insurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Life insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Income protection
• Mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Fitness reimbursement plan, worth £600 per annum
• Flexible working hours
• Weekly happy hours
• Seasonal parties
• Monthly social events
• Annual rail season ticket advance
• Cycle to work scheme

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.
• Zynga's games have been downloaded over 6 billion times, connecting players in 175+ countries.
• Zynga's diverse game portfolio includes FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, and many more.
• Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, Zynga's teams span North America, Europe, and Asia.
• NaturalMotion makes games that wow people and innovates to create previously impossible experiences.
• NaturalMotion takes pride in making titles that reach a large audience and creating communities that last.
• NaturalMotion has been recognized as one of the UK's Best Places to Work in games for eight consecutive years by gamesindustry.biz.
• NaturalMotion is part of the Zynga and Take-Two Interactive family.

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 is committed to providing necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments.
• Contact accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request accommodations or for support related to your application.