Principal UX Designer - Diablo IV

About the position

The Diablo IV team is looking for a motivated and experienced UX/UI Designer to come work with us and help us craft something extraordinary. This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Albany, NY, or Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Generate UX/UI designs that both achieve game experience goals and improve the player experience in the form of mockups, prototypes, flows, and layouts.
• Implement interface screens using efficient and flexible layout design and collaborate with engineers to ensure features are built to design specifications.
• Iterate on presentation and interaction to both look pixel perfect and feel great.
• Continually evaluate the UX/UI based on feedback from users, user research, lead social designer, product managers and UX/UI leads.
• Integrate within the UX/UI team and system design team, contributing to the gameplay UX/UI experience roadmap with relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a UI/UX designer, interaction designer, or similar on public products.
• Experience with UI implementation in a modern engine or platform (e.g. Unity, Unreal or HTML5).
• Ability to adhere to a project's existing visual and interaction patterns.
• Experience with designing for multiple control schemes (e.g. Controllers, Mouse & Keyboard and/or Touch Screen etc.).
• Positive attitude around receiving and providing objective feedback.
• A passion for video games and user interface design.
• A portfolio showing a solid grasp of usability design principles, user flows and prototypes you have created for UI screens, as well as samples of your visual design ability.

Nice-to-haves

• Passion for the Diablo franchise and ARPG genre.
• Interests in ARPG gameplay and nurturing a healthy game community.
• Experience designing interfaces for a variety of platforms and/or control schemes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• Relocation assistance if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job.