Lead UX Designer (Apex Legends)

If you have experience developing streamlined interaction systems for games, managing a team of UX designers, and you are familiar with the live service model, we are looking for you!

Reporting to the Director of Experience Design, You will:

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with, and take direction from, the Experience Design Directors and feature team members to take important UX-heavy features from concept to completion on a large project

  • Work with other designers and engineers, to understand and determine UX goals for evolving features

  • Guide the career development of reporting UX Designers, ensuring the team is challenged, growing, and productive.

  • Independently design solutions: concepts, wireframes, and prototypes while iterating based on your research, team feedback, and user feedback

  • Work with Production to coordinate schedules, and ensure the right designers are on the right tasks

  • Create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups to conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors for multiple environments and audiences

  • Build rapid prototypes for iterative design, ensuring they make for the best possible player experience

  • Document and promote awareness of UX standards, and push to improve UX design workflow processes

 

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in UX design

  • 2+ year of management experience

  • Shipped at least 1 game or large-scale non-game project, in a UX design role

  • Experience with user-centered design, and a fascination for understanding how users experience a product

  • Proficient in user experience design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe XD, Axure, or Omnigraffle)

  • Experience with the User Research Lab process, and understand how to use it.

  • Understand the importance of documentation and teaching others

  • Enjoy creative problems, and value respectful feedback processes

  • Broad taste in games

 

Valuable Additional Skills

  • Experience developing UX for AAA games, multiplayer games, live service games or FPS genre

  • Knowledge of Apex Legends, or other competitors in the AAA Battle Royale space.

  • Understand interaction design problems across and input constraints across consoles and PC.

  • Degree in Interaction Design, Psychology, Human Factors, Industrial Engineering or related HCI discipline


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Electronic Arts


Job Type : Full Time
Job Location :     Los Angeles, United States
Job Posted :    20 May 2024