At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
YAHTZEE is one of our casual free-to-play mobile games and is a classic board game with a new look. The team is based in Europe and the US, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.
What You Will DoAs a Senior UX Designer, you will work as a key pillar of the team, connecting Product, UX Research, UI Designers, Game Designers, Art, Devs… following a Player Centric approach and ensuring the best quality and experience for our players.
- Apply your UX knowledge and player feedback to help improve and evolve the current game experience.
- Improve existing features to ensure they are easy to understand, fun, and engaging for our players.
- Lead UX workshops to influence and facilitate a co-design methodology among your colleagues.
- Be a key person during the ideation and pre-production process for new features, taking a hands-on approach to the development process to ensure we deliver the best user experience.
- Follow the latest UX design thinking practices during the ideation/design process.
- Stay updated with industry trends to go beyond our competitors.
- Work closely with UI, Art, Product, Game Design, and UX leadership to define and establish a cohesive identity and language for the game.
- Collaborate closely with UI designers in creating UI frameworks that lead to visible, accessible, user-friendly, and engaging features.
- Apply and advocate for a unified user flow throughout gameplay features and systems.
- Iterate using player and team feedback to aim for simplicity, comprehension, and seamless experiences.
- Develop the player journey for each feature to ensure a delightful end-to-end experience for players.
- 4+ years of proven experience as a UX Designer in the gaming industry.
- Ability to lead the design of useful, usable, and desirable products in a cross-team environment.
- Player-first mindset, considering our players in every part of the design process and advocating for them in the team.
- Ability to develop and communicate complex systems on different layers using wireframes, customer journeys, user flows, mockups, prototypes, and storyboards.
- Understand player needs by independently conducting customer research, user testing, and establishing feedback loops.
- Ability to work well within a dynamic, cross-discipline, and iterative team environment.
- Self-motivated and collaborative, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both in-person and remotely.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment while maintaining a positive and humble mindset.
- Awareness of current trends in casual mobile games.
- Deep passion for creating polished and innovative gameplay experiences for casual mobile games.
- Strong eye for visual design and understanding of visual communication.
- Strong understanding of game design and design theory.
- Proficient in Figma and the creation of Design Systems.
- Experience in casual social games with deep customization and meta-progression systems.
- Consistent record of creating impactful features on live games.
- Experience in all phases of the design process, including concept development and prototyping.
- Experience in Live Operations (ideally in casual games) in a data-driven game organization.
Please include a portfolio/reel or PDF/links to examples of your work in the application.
At Scopely, we believe in creating a supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect and inclusivity. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other protected status.About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!", “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC, and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
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