Senior UX Designer

3 Days ago • 4-5 Years • UI/UX Design • Product Design • $117,200 PA - $229,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

343 Industries seeks a Senior UX Designer to lead the user experience design for future Halo games. Responsibilities include crafting best-in-class UX designs, information architecture, prototyping, and contributing to design process efficacy. The role requires collaboration with various teams (User Research, Engineering, Management), iterative design cycles, and presenting designs to stakeholders. Experience with User Research methodologies and high-quality entertainment product design is crucial. The ideal candidate will be passionate about gaming and creating sustainable, scalable experiences for millions of players worldwide. The role offers a hybrid work model with up to two days a week working from home.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in product/service design
  • 2+ years with User Researchers
  • High-quality entertainment product UX design
  • Proficient in Figma and prototyping
  • Excellent communication & presentation skills
Good to have:
  • Unreal Engine experience
  • AAA game experience
  • Experience with large fiction-rich games
  • Passion for games

Job Details

Overview

343 Industries is the developer of the blockbuster Halo series of video games. As part of Xbox Game Studios, the Halo franchise encompasses games, television series, novels, comics, licensed collectibles, apparel and more. We are looking for talented new voices to join our team to build the next generation of games and experiences in our award-winning sci-fi universe. Do you want to closely collaborate with teams to drive inspiring, cohesive gameplay experiences? Are you interested in both celebrating and evolving Halo’s legacy to create a new generation of stories that millions of players love? If so, the Halo team would love to speak with you about becoming our next Senior UX Designer! 

 

Join the UX/UI/Tech Experience Design team and create engaging user experiences that are regularly engaged with by fans around the world. The UX/UI team is responsible for user-friendly experiences, engaging user interfaces, performant UX/UI technical implementation, content, branding, and much more across multiple Halo game titles. Teamwork and collaboration are part of our team's success - we communicate and creatively solve problems. We strive to make our experiences, designs, and content inclusive. 

 

UX/UI is looking for a Senior UX Designer for the future of Halo video games. As a UX Designer on the team, your designs and UX process will spearhead future Halo gaming experiences that are sustainable and scalable. You’ve worked closely with User Research (UR) and are familiar with various UR methodologies and limitations. You are an empathetic UX designer, who advocates for the best user experience and understands the value of being data informed. You seek to understand the audience. You are comfortable articulating the user’s needs and presenting thoroughly thought through, end-to-end UX solutions to teammates, partners, and leadership. You are obsessed with digging into user scenarios. You are flexible and can collaborate and help define overall strategy and quickly switch gears to focus on the details. You work to create clarity when there is ambiguity. To you, no design task or detail is too trivial. 

 

The Senior UX Designer will be accountable for delivering best-in-class UX design, information architecture, prototyping, and contribute to the overall efficacy in the design process, maintain great stakeholder relationships, and help to drive a center of design excellence within the studio. The candidate has hands-on experience crafting large-scale digital products and interfaces, who sees design challenges as opportunities, has a demonstrated track record of craft and embraces a culture of growth mindset, mentorship, and coaching. This candidate will collaborate and thrive within multi-disciplinary teams operating in an environment of innovation and excellence. Roles at our studio are flexible, and you can work from home up to two days a week in this role. 

 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design
    • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
  • 2+ year experience working with User Researchers and methodologies 
  • A history of successful user experience design for high quality entertainment products, websites, native applications, or software 

 

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: 
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

 

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience working with Unreal Engine 
  • Previous experience with console/PC titles with at least one shipped AAA game 
  • Passion for games a plus 
  • Previous experience with large, fiction-rich games or entertainment franchises 
  • You are comfortable working in an exciting, fast-paced, deadline-driven working environment 

 

Product Design IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:    

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 23, 2024.

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the vision and best practices of Halo's user experience with the goal of being “UX Led” 
  • Produce best-in-class, accessible, user-friendly experience designs catered towards Halo fans the world over 
  • Own and contribute to UX Design Systems with tools like Figma 
  • Rapidly prototype UX Designs in Figma and in-engine 
  • Refine your designs through iterative design cycles that include testing and evaluation 
  • Collaborate with both internal and external partners to ensure user experience excellence throughout the entire the gaming experience 
  • Communicate and present your design ideas, user flows, wireframes, and specification documentation to Designers, Producers, Engineers, Partners, User Research, and Management 

 

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