Senior UX Designer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • UI/UX Design • $183,900 PA - $215,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Niantic's UX Design team seeks a Senior UX Designer to lead design efforts for Pokémon GO, from concept to implementation. Responsibilities include developing wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation; communicating designs to internal/external partners; leading brainstorming sessions; improving the UI design system; and collaborating with user research to incorporate player feedback. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of UX design experience for consumer products, proficiency in Figma, and strong visual design skills. The role requires close collaboration with game design, art, product, and engineering teams, demanding adaptability and effective communication in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment. The successful candidate will champion player interests and translate complex use cases into simple, scalable designs.
Must have:
  • 5+ years UX design experience
  • Figma proficiency
  • Strong visual design skills
  • Lead design efforts from concept to implementation
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Good to have:
  • Unity UI implementation
  • Japanese language proficiency
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Niantic's UX Design team builds innovative mobile experiences for tens of millions of users worldwide, encouraging discovery, exercise, and meaningful social experiences.

The Pokémon GO team is looking for a well-rounded Senior UX Designer to help us deliver the next wave of experiences for our players. Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll partner closely with peers across game design, art, product, and engineering teams to champion the best interests of our broad player base through the design of intuitive, engaging, and usable game UX.

We’re looking for someone who is a strong voice for the player, applying both intuition and data-informed research to drive creative solutions for existing and new experiences. We value adept storytellers, that can translate complex use cases into simple, scalable designs that can be implemented by the team. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and can help teams shift and re-focus efforts as needed.

Are you interested in helping craft the future of real-world interactive experiences? We'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

  • Lead UX design efforts from concept to implementation for multiple key projects.
  • Develop mockups, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design documentation to clearly describe interaction flows and design concepts.
  • Clearly communicate UX designs to internal and external partners.
  • Lead team rituals to conceptualize and brainstorm new features.
  • Improve and extend existing UI design system patterns and brand guidelines.
  • Partner with user research to incorporate player insights throughout the development process, including leading user studies as needed.
  • Proactively make contributions towards UX team rituals and process improvements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members and partners, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
  • Required in-office min 2 days, on Wednesday and Thursday.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years or equivalent experience in UX design for consumer-facing products, with a portfolio of shipped features/titles and personal projects.
  • Experience with wireframing and prototyping in Figma collaboratively, using shared design libraries and patterns.
  • Familiarity with mobile UX design patterns applied in gaming, fitness, or live-service applications.
  • Strong visual design, motion design, and UI art skills.
  • Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to develop novel UX patterns as needed.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.

Plus if...

  • You can implement and manipulate UI in Unity.
  • You have Japanese language proficiency.

The total compensation package for this position includes a new hire offer base salary range of $183,900.00 - $215,000.00 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Individual pay within this salary range is determined by work location and additional factors, including assessed job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can answer any questions about new hire total compensation during the hiring process. An overview of benefit offerings for your location can be found on the careers page.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich. 

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