Senior UX Designer - Poker

Position Overview:

We are looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to join the Zynga Poker team. As a Senior Designer you’ll shape the end to end experience for a live, social, real-time competitive game for millions of players globally where clarity, trust, and delight matter every hand played.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield extraordinary experiences for our players.
• Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation.
• Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results.
• Create UI design/layouts.

• Collaborate with the art team to define/adhere to a thematic art style.
• Design functional animation for user interactions.

• Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing.
• Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs.
• Conduct heuristic evaluations of internal & external products.

• Partner with technical artists and engineers to ensure designs will work well in the game engine.
• Set examples, guides, and standard methodologies in UI/UX for others in your game team.
• Lead and participate in company-wide UI/UX community events, critiques, product reviews, and feature retrospectives.

What You Bring:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area required. A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI, having worked on 3+ different game titles.
• A portfolio with relevant industry/personal work.
• Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced setting. Be able to rapidly develop new skills and behaviors in response to changing circumstances.
• Ability to present complex ideas to diverse audiences and articulate a convincing point of view.
• Highly proficient written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing.
• Ability to utilize new tools and technologies as they evolve with AI.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, work efficiency, handle time effectively, and complete your work with minimal oversight.
• Proactive self-development and interest in leveling up personal, interpersonal, and craft skills.
• An authority on the UX Design process: Defining usability challenges, researching the problem space, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, designing appropriate solutions, and validating ideas through testing.
• Experienced expert in designing for games vs. task completion, specifically supporting fun and engagement.
• High degree of competence in assessing and addressing product usability and applying user psychology.
• An accomplished expert with prototyping design software.

• An accomplished expert in user interface layout design, hierarchy, color theory, and information architecture.

• Can consistently produce high-quality visual assets for user interfaces.

What We Offer You:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site