\n \n\nSenior UI/UX Designer\n\nWho We Are:\n\nMAKE LIFE EPIC\n\nFounded in 1996, Firaxis Games is a world-renowned game development studio with an unwavering mission to โbuild games that stand the test of timeโ. The name Firaxis, a fusion of โfieryโ and โaxis,โ communicates the companyโs dynamic development process that results in the creation of ground breaking titles with unparalleled gameplay delivered to gamers around the world. Under the creative direction of industry legend Sid Meier, Firaxis has released dozens of hit games on multiple platforms and is recognized as an industry leader in game development.\nCORE VALUES\n \nGAMEPLAY FIRST\nLet gameplay drive decision making\nBE ACCOUNTABLE\nDeliver great work for the studio, the team & yourself\nPEOPLE FOCUSED\nMaintain an environment where people are happy\nEMBRACE ENTHUSIASM\nFind opportunities to contribute and collaborate\nWORK SMART\nPut effort where it pays off the most\n\nJob Summary: We are seeking a talented Senior UI/UX Designer to join our dynamic team at Firaxis Games. The ideal candidate will be responsible for assisting in the design of intuitive and visually stunning user interfaces and experiences for our games. This role will involve collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including their Lead UI/UX Designer, Project Art Director, Game Designers, Artists, Engineers, and Producers to create engaging and immersive user experiences. You will be creating interfaces for some of the most complex strategy games around, so be prepared for opportunities which are both challenging and unique! \n\nResponsibilities:\n\nConceptualization, design, and implementation of user interfaces for video games across multiple platforms. As well as working in the game engine. Create wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, animation and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas and concepts. Gather feedback to iterate and improve upon existing designs. Work closely with game designers to ensure that UI/UX design aligns with gameplay mechanics and overall player experience goals. Collaborate with artists to ensure consistency in visual style and branding throughout the user interface. Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the UI/UX design team. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in UI/UX design. Advocate for the player by championing usability, accessibility, and player-centric design principles.\n\nQualifications:\n\n5+ years game development experience focused on UI/UX. Proficiency in UI/UX design tools such as Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, or similar software. Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies. Experience using CSS for implementation. Experience designing for various platforms including PC, console, and mobile. Excellent visual design skills with a keen eye for typography, color, and layout. Experience with motion graphics and animation for UI elements. Ability to effectively communicate design ideas through wireframes, mockups, and prototypes. Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Knowledge of game development processes and an understanding of gameplay mechanics.\n\nSkills That Would Be a Plus:\n\nFamiliarity with game engines such as Unreal Engine and/or Proprietary engines. Understanding of front-end development technologies such as HTML and JavaScript. Experience with Coherent is a plus. 3D software such as 3D Studio Max or Maya for creation of 3D elements into the UI.\n\nThe Senior UI/UX Designer plays a critical role in shaping the overall user experience of our games, ensuring that players are immersed in intuitive and visually appealing interfaces that enhance their enjoyment and engagement. If you have a passion for gaming and a talent for creating exceptional user experiences, we encourage you to apply and join our team of passionate professionals in the video game industry.\n\nSTUDIO LEGACY:\n\nNamed Worldโs #1 Developer of the Year by Game Informer Magazine in 2012, Firaxis is very proud of its legacy of developing award winning titles. We have won multiple BAFTAs, D.I.C.E Awards, Game of the Year titles, and category awards (from โBest Strategy Gameโ to โBest PC Gameโ) across our products.\n\nAdditionally, our company was also featured in SmartCEOโs โBest-Run Bookโ for company culture and praised for a focus on โfamily, fun and flexibility.โ Firaxis was also named a finalist in SmartCEOโs Healthiest Company Awards for 2016.\n\nFiraxis Games prides itself on maintaining a quality of life inside and outside the studio โ when our team members are happy and healthy, creativity can flourish. We offer boot camp fitness and yoga classes at the office, a free gym with shower, regularly catered lunches and breakfasts, biweekly Friday Happy Hours, company events and parties, and a โFunZoneโ complete with billiards, foosball, video games, and tabletop gaming space. We are also a philanthropic studio and offer employees the chance to volunteer with local charities and nonprofits throughout the year.\n\nFulltime employees can also take advantage of Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, 401K retirement savings, a wellbeing initiative with the opportunity to earn cash rewards, an Employee Assistance Program, and paid time off and paid holidays.\n\n \n\nPlease note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com and hangar13games.com accounts.\n\n#LI-Remote \n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, CSS, Senior and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n
$77,500 — $117,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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Octopus Energy is hiring a Remote Senior UX UI Designer
\nKraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group. \n\n\nOur team\nAll technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 300 people globally. Our engineers work in โsuper teamsโ which are focused on key areas of our platform as well as other innovative products. This also includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers. \n \nWe're looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer who is passionate about designing simple, elegant user experiences, and using human-centred design as a source of inspiration to solve complex problems on behalf of our current customers. You'll be joining our design team, to help bring clarity and consistency to Kraken Technology's products...\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team with different stakeholders (developers, PMs, users, clients) when designing new features and products\n* Youโll be contributing to building and maintaining our Design system, its library, documentation and patterns\n* Collaborate on other projects across the company such as; improving the user experience and interface of different areas of our support site and helping with design requests and conducting UX audits of Kraken partner journeys\n* Work on User research, UX and UI end-to-end\n* Share designs for feedback early & often and offer design feedback to other team members\n* Plan and facilitate workshops, user interviews, usability testing and discovery activities to understand how we can best meet our energy specialistsโ needs\n* Confidently delegate smaller tasks and projects to more junior designers, to better prioritise your time\n* Refining and adding to our design process documentation, onboarding materials and trying out new design processes with the team where possible\n* Communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues, successfully defining roadmaps for projects with big picture strategy\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll need\n* At least 4 years of professional experience designing digital products\n* Experience working with Design Systems and component libraries\n* High proficiency with Figma - It is our main design tool\n* Design processes, knowing what steps are needed and which ones can be skipped based on the specific project or problem you are working on\n* The ability to clearly communicate and motivate design decisions to team members and stakeholders\n* Experience working with teams composed of designers, PMs, Front-End and Back-End developers\n* Attention to detail when designing, being precise and ensuring something is done well rather than fast but poorly\n* The ability to focus on user needs and knowing how to improve usability/UX\n* A focus on accessibility and inclusion when designing components, interfaces and interactions\n\n\nYou'll also need to a have at least a basic understanding of/experience with:\n* Considering front-end frameworks (Bootstrap, Reactโฆ), HTML and CSS to be able to communicate your designs with devs and find workarounds when feasibility issues occur\n* Participating in project stand-up meetings with developers\n* Usage of project management software like Asana or Jira, knowledge of the agile process and organising work with tasks\n* Knowledge of web accessibility and designing for accessibility\n* Using analytics tools (Google Analytics, Hotjarโฆ)\n* Performing user interviews and user testing\n\n\n\nSome of the things you'll love\n* ๐ Your new team: working as part of the Kraken design team with other passionate and super friendly UX/UI Designers\n* ๐ The wider Tech team: everyone youโll meet is friendly, kind, collaborative and knowledgeable\n* ๐ The Operations team: the wonderful people from the Ops team (aka our users) are always available for user interviews, testing sessions, contextual inquiries and sharing feedback on our designs\n* ๐ Level-up days: everyone in the team can pick a full day every month to dedicate to learning something new and making use of our learning resources\n* ๐ฟ Design talks: share something cool that you know, do or learned with the rest of the team, or simply sit back with some popcorns and enjoy\n* ๐งโโ๏ธ Spa-days: one day every month where you can work on something small and fun or quick wins for our users outside of your daily tasks (and get a free lunch from Deliveroo)\n* ๐ฏ Team socials: we have team socials regularly (both remote and in person, previous activities have included jewellery making, drink and paint nights, VR games to name a few) as well as occasional team lunches!\n* ๐ Regular 1-1s: youโll have bi-weekly 1-1s with your manager to discuss and monitor your personal goals and growth and team and company goals\n* โจ โฆ the list goes on, why not join the team and find out for yourself?\n\n\n\nWhy else you'll love about us\n* Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!\n* Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people \n* Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits\n\n\n\n\n\nWe would prefer someone who can work in our London office but will consider remote candidates. However, you do need to be able to work in the UK. \n\n\nWe're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.\n\n\nIf this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. \n\n\nStudies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Designer, Testing, CSS, HTML, Mobile and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n
$50,000 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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