UX Designer

Want to be a voice of our customers? As a UX Designer you'll utilize your expertise, working closely with products, game teams as well as platforms to create smooth, frictionless user experiences matching design conventions and targeting audience requirements.

Using your knowledge you'll enhance the team’s understanding of UX and user-centric design. You'll collaborate closely with data analysts, visual design and user research to gather and understand raw data in order to make informed design decisions that meet user needs. In addition to this you'll maintain and optimize user flows on products, websites, internal tools, new software, and feature sets.

What you'll be doing:

• Work as part of a team supporting live and emerging products, platform, or game development
• Successfully apply data, user research and analysis to the product, platform, or game
• Identify target audience needs and requirements and map out their journey
• Define and follow design processes resulting in easy-to-use, scalable interfaces and experiences
• Create prototypes and wireframes to deliver intuitive, efficient, and frictionless user flows
• Operationalize feedback and iteration cycles within product development
• Create and drive accessibility standards on a product, platform, or game
• Partner with art, design, and engineering to successfully implement UX designs
• Perform competitive analysis of other products in the same space
• Apply testing best practices to ensure robust decision making and challenge assumptions
• Produce documentation as required to clearly communicate research, data, feedback,frameworks, or processes
• Constantly look for new opportunities to improve customer experiences

What we're looking for:

• In-depth knowledge of interaction design and graphic design fundamentals
• Expert proficiency in craft software (e.g. UXPin, Balsamiq, InDesign, Figma)
• Strong portfolio of work demonstrating user-centric design
• Previous experience of numerous full cycle product development (including prototype and pre-production)
• Understanding of UI system design and information architecture
• Fluency with using analytics, user testing & research to inform creative processes and decision making (quantitative and qualitative analysis methods, biometrics, user questionnaires etc.)
• Professional competency in UX technologies, theories, architecture, and development techniques
• Able to collaborate closely with engineers in support of implementing designs in a robust and standards-compliant way

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk