[Remote] UI/UX Director, Unannounced Super Fun Video Game

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Second Dinner is a game development company known for their hit game MARVEL SNAP. They are seeking a UI/UX Director to lead their UI/UX team, create a compelling vision for the game's interface, and ensure an intuitive player experience.


Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership for the mobile game's UI/UX, ensuring alignment with the game's creative vision and player experience goals
  • Lead and direct the UI/UX team
  • Collaborate closely with game designers, artists, and developers to integrate UI/UX seamlessly into the overall game design. Work with the team to redesign things that you think are going to make the UX bad. Or help them redesign it
  • Implement player feedback to refine and optimize the UI/UX throughout the game development process
  • Develop and maintain design documentation for UI patterns and elements
  • Document and communicate design decisions, rationale, and guidelines to ensure a shared understanding among the development team
  • Create interactive prototypes and wireframes to test and iterate on design concepts
  • Design tests and utilize data to refine and optimize the UI/UX throughout the game development process
  • Direct motion design through storyboards or prototypes for fun and intuitive UI transitions and interactions
  • Make it look and feel great
  • Put it in the build

Skills

  • You have crafted intuitive and fun User Interfaces on Mobile
  • You have experience in Match-3 or other puzzle games
  • You can render high quality UI elements
  • You get people •psyched• about your bold new ideas
  • Everyone who works with you says “oh wow, they've got this”
  • You like working directly in a game engine

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Potential for discretionary performance bonuses
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
  • 401(k) contribution with no waiting period
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
  • Home office improvement bonus
  • Paid Vacation & Sick time
  • Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
  • Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT
  • Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)
  • Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)
  • Company Events - In-person all-hands gathering, and virtual events throughout the year

Company Overview

  • Second Dinner is an award-winning independent game development studio that is here to make the most fun games in the world. Not super fun games. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is

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