UX Designer - Pokémon GO

Niantic's UX Design team builds innovative mobile experiences for tens of millions of users worldwide, encouraging discovery, exercise, and meaningful social experiences.

Responsibilities

• You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and can help teams shift and re-focus efforts as needed
• Support UX design efforts from concept to implementation for multiple key projects
• Develop mockups, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design documentation to clearly describe interaction flows and design concepts
• Clearly communicate UX designs to internal and external partners
• Lead team rituals to conceptualize and brainstorm new features
• Improve and extend existing UI design system patterns and brand guidelines
• Partner with user research to incorporate player insights throughout the development process, including leading user studies as needed
• Proactively make contributions towards UX team rituals and process improvements
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and partners, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings
• Required in-office min 2 days a week

Skills

• We’re looking for someone who is a strong voice for the player, applying both intuition and data-informed research to drive creative solutions for existing and new experiences
• We value adept storytellers, that can translate complex use cases into simple, scalable designs that can be implemented by the team
• 3+ years or equivalent experience in UX design for consumer-facing products, with a portfolio of shipped features/titles and personal projects
• Portfolio of work showcasing examples of consumer-facing mobile UX, covering both interaction and UI design
• Experience working on gaming and non-gaming products
• Experience with wireframing and prototyping in Figma collaboratively, using shared design libraries and patterns
• Familiarity with mobile UX design patterns applied in gaming, fitness, or live-service applications
• Strong visual design, motion design, and UI art skills
• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to develop novel UX patterns as needed
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others

Benefits

• 💼 For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below
• 💰 In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off
• Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
• CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range
• $120,600 - $174,000 USD

Are you interested in helping craft the future of real-world interactive experiences? We'd love to hear from you!

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