UX Designer - Games

17 Minutes ago • 5 Years +
Game Design

Job Description

As a UX Designer, you will join a cross-disciplinary team on one of Embark Studios' game projects, taking ownership of UX design for game features and driving initiatives to enhance the end-user experience. This role involves designing and shipping new features for live service products while also maintaining existing functionalities. The ideal candidate will have experience in games, designing for various platforms and input methods, and an interest in UX Research.
Good To Have:
  • A portfolio showcasing a couple of relevant projects from previous work.
  • Experience working data-driven to inform design decisions.
  • Experience working with live service cross-platform products.
  • Systematic approach to design.
  • Experience with Unreal Engine is a plus, but not required.
  • Familiarity with user research methods.
  • A creative and curious mind with a passion for user-centered design.
  • An interest in games and player experiences.
Must Have:
  • Collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams and align stakeholders around design decisions to ensure shared understanding and designs.
  • Create designs using user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, that adhere to design systems and style guides.
  • Work proactively, identifying gaps in the user experience to inform improvements
  • Think in systems, considering edge cases early on, flexible design solutions, and drive consistency with creativity.
  • Help leveling-up UX understanding and skills at Embark, drive the discipline forward in the studio.
  • Foster a culture of design sharing, feedback, and critique within the team, to leverage the team’s combined expertise in finding the best solutions.
Perks:
  • competitive salaries
  • passionate colleagues to share knowledge with
  • a journey into the unknown to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together

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As a UX Designer you will be working on one of our Game Projects in a cross-disciplinary team, taking ownership for UX design of game features and driving initiatives within those to improve the end-user experience. You will be part of designing and shipping new features for live service products, while balancing maintenance of existing features.

To thrive in this role we think you have experience working with games, designing for multiple platforms and input methods such as PC, console or mobile, and an interest in UX Research. The bar for UX in games is rising, and we’re pushing to stay ahead of the curve. Join us and help shape what comes next!

Example of responsibilities

  • Collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams and align stakeholders around design decisions to ensure shared understanding and designs.
  • Create designs using user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, that adhere to design systems and style guides.
  • Work proactively, identifying gaps in the user experience to inform improvements
  • You don’t think of just screens, you think in systems. Consider edge cases early on, flexible design solutions, and drive consistency with creativity.
  • Help leveling-up UX understanding and skills at Embark, drive the discipline forward in the studio.
  • Foster a culture of design sharing, feedback, and critique within the team, to leverage the team’s combined expertise in finding the best solutions.

We would love if you have

  • A portfolio showcasing a couple of relevant projects from previous work.
  • 5+ years of experience within UX/UI or product design, or similar.
  • Experience working data-driven to inform design decisions.
  • Experience working with live service cross-platform products
  • Systematic approach to design
  • Experience with Unreal Engine is a plus, but not required
  • Familiarity with user research methods
  • A creative and curious mind with a passion for user-centered design
  • An interest in games and player experiences
  • Fluency in English

At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability.

Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!

Team

Design

Role

UX & UI

Locations

Stockholm

We empower everyone to create games

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To realize this dream of ours, we explore and apply the latest technology, and we reimagine what games can become and how they should be built. All of us at Embark take part in shaping our culture. We succeed together, we fail together, and we learn together. If you’re passionate about games and our mission, bring your expertise, your enthusiasm, your crazy ideas, and let’s change the games industry forever. At Embark we offer a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

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