As Mid-level User Experience (UX) Designer, your role is essential in creating player-centric game experiences that are engaging and delightful as well as aid in reaching the business goals. You will support the game team in different phases of development by gathering player insights, visualizing, prototyping and documenting the UX design. You will ensure the UX design is in line with the overall vision of the game and help execute on that vision. You will also need to actively engage with other disciplines, such as product management, tech, game design, player research, marketing, and art.

You will have impact and fun at work by doing:

Owning the UX design of specific game design elements, such as core game mechanic or event.
Actively engaging in feature/game design meetings with game designers, game lead, product manager, analysts, and UX researchers to help in shaping and understanding the goals/problems of the feature or game.
Helping in visualizing, communicating, and documenting a UX/UI design to the team through paper sketching, wireframes, UI flows, mock-ups, and prototypes
Helping in observing and annotating playtest videos and communicating finding to the team alongside User researchers
Actively in deconstructing, documenting, and communicating competitor features and games from a UX lens.

Experience and skills we are looking for:

Passion and strong knowledge of UX, UI, interaction and emotional design in casual F2P mobile puzzle games.
Strong understanding in mobile game usability principles and best practices.
Understanding and identifying the needs and motivations of the diverse target audiences.
Able to craft well-thought player journeys and design joyful and memorable game experiences.
Process-oriented, familiar with Design Thinking and other UX methods, tools and processes.
Utilize quantitative and qualitative data for identifying challenges and opportunities and to form hypotheses.
Ability to communicate complex ideas through verbal, written, and visual means.

We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.

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Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company’s shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO. Sega Europe Limited has acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares and will delist the company from NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange as soon as permitted under applicable laws.