UI/UX Product Designer

Reports to: Sr. Product/Project Manager

thatgamecompany is best recognized for creating award-winning, enriching, and meaningful game titles such as Journey, Flower, and flOw. Our most recent game, Sky, is our most complex undertaking to date. It is a social network built around the values inherited from a powerful humanistic story. It is a live experience continuously evolving inside a global online theme park.

Sky has an amazing and vibrant community of socially minded players, and we are tirelessly working to ensure that players feel safe and supported. As with any online system, we are not immune to bad actors attempting to undermine our game ecosystem and platform. While we do not request identifiable information from our players and we make significant efforts to protect their privacy, we do track certain events in Sky in order to improve our player experience.

We are looking for a creative UI/UX product designer to come up with novel ways to use, interpret, and/or visualize this data, potentially in the service of identifying positive social gameplay, evolving player sentiments over time, threats to player safety (negative behavior, harassment), or other bad actors (such as hackers or bots).

Responsibilities

• Design innovative user interfaces for data-driven applications & dashboards in an Agile environment
• Optimize usability & scalability of product solutions with multiple game studios in mind as the audience
• Collaborate closely with developers on UI/UX concepts & implementation
• Work with users to gather requirements and feedback
• Participate in usability tests
• Produce engaging storyboards, wireframes, user flows, and prototypes
• Help maintain & further shape design system best practices for internal tools
• Analyze existing applications and propose re-designs with specifications & guidelines

• Contribute to thatgamecompany’s unique culture & vision

Required Skills

• 3+ years professional experience in UX roles (this can include positions like UX Designer, UI Designer, or Product Designer)
• Experience & ability to iterate through multiple design solutions
• Expertise with Figma (preferred), and/or adjacent UI/UX design & prototyping tools such as Sketch or Adobe XD
• Strong communication, presentation, collaboration, and time management skills
• Possess an understanding for working in an agile team environment

Preferred Skills

• Experience & fluency with front-end web development technologies (HTML, CSS)
• Experience in other creative visual mediums, particularly in 3D rendering & motion
• Experience with Atlassian Development and Collaboration Tools
• Experience in the video game industry

Perks & Benefits:

• Paid time off, holidays and a two-week winter break
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on the first day
• FSA and HSA accounts offered as voluntary benefits
• Pet insurance for those who need it
• Compassionate leave for employees to care for a sick loved one and/or their pet
• Wellness stipend
• Work-from-home stipend
• Access to our retirement savings plan (401k program) with company match
• Reimbursement for video game purchases
• Mental health resources including Headspace membership and Employee Assistance Program
• Discount portal for everyday goods and services
• Employee diversity and inclusion initiatives such as Grow Together
• Support for personal growth development
• Work away from home support such as WeWork membership across the United States and internationally