Senior UX Designer

Relic; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 94,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended benefits

RRSP/DPSP matching

Annual studio closure holidays

Health and Wellness Spending Account

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Relic is seeking a Senior UX Designer to join our Vancouver studio and help shape UX/UI for our strategy games. You will translate complex systems into intuitive interfaces and prototype front-end HUD interactions for PC, handheld, and console.

Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to guide information architecture and ensure accessibility and clarity. This role offers an opportunity to influence world-class titles and contribute to Relic’s ongoing success.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and prototyping control schemes for PC, handheld, and console.
• Experience taking titles from concept to completion.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to produce clear designs.
• Strong working knowledge of UX methods such as user journeys, personas, and wireframes.
• Foundational graphic design skills including spacing, layout, typography.

Responsibilities

• Define front-end, in-game HUD and gameplay interactions through wireframes and prototypes.
• Design the logic, layout, and flow of in-game UI elements for ease of use.
• Balance design, art, player expectations and gameplay for engaging UX.
• Understand game systems intent and translate to UI.
• Champion user experience across the game and stages.
• Collaborate across teams to share and receive feedback.
• Architect how information is organized and presented to players.

Skills

Wireframing

Prototyping

Interaction design

User research

Communication

Documentation

Collaboration

Graphic design

Tools

Figma

Adobe XD

Job description

Relic isan award-winning developer of genre-defining strategy games including Warhammer: Dawn of War, Homeworld, Company of Heroes, and Age of Empires IV. Newly independent, we are positioned to better serve our players, experiment with exciting new game ideas, and continue delivering the rich interactive experiences players have come to expect from us over the last 25 years.

We have a unique opportunity for a Senior UX Designer to join our Vancouver studio and work on our UX/UI team supporting Relic’s existing and future strategy titles. As a key member of the UX/UI team, you will help shape how players experience our games by translating complex systems into intuitive, engaging, and accessible experiences.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will…

• Define front-end, in-game HUD and gameplay interactions through wireframes and prototypes

• Design the logic, layout, and flow of in-game user interface elements to make them easy to understand and navigate

• Balance the needs of design, art, player expectations, and gameplay to create an engaging player experience

• Understand the intent of various game systems and bring that vision to life through UI

• Champion user experience at every level of the game

• Collaborate across teams to give and receive feedback

• Be the architect of how information is organized and presented to players

You're a great fit if you have...

• Experience designing and prototyping control schemes for PC, Handheld, and Console

• Experience taking titles from concept to completion

• Excellent communication and documentation skills, and the ability to produce clear designs that describe the experience

• Strong working knowledge of interaction design tools such as Figma or Adobe XD

• Proven skills using various UX design methods: contextual inquiry, card sorting, user journeys, personas, wireframes, etc.

• Foundational graphic design skills (spacing, layout, typography, imagery)

• Curiosity and a desire to learn and grow with us

It’s a bonus if you have…

• Experience working on a strategy or RTS-like title

• Experience working on a live service game or supporting a title post-launch

• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools such as Excel and Tableau

• Experience with WPF, XAML and Microsoft Blend

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and value our diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from women, Indigenous and racialized peoples, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, and people with disabilities. Our studio is made up of people with a wide variety of backgrounds and life experiences because it makes us better and helps our games tell stories to our whole audience.

Compensation

The salary range for this position located in British Columbia is between $93,500 - $127,500 CAD a year. The salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, knowledge, skills and competencies, and business or organization needs.

Relic offers an extended benefits package, RRSP/DPSP matching program (subject to eligibility requirements), and annual paid holiday studio closure. We put a huge priority on mental and physical wellbeing: each Relican has access to an annual Health and Wellness Spending Account, as well as an Employee and Family Assistance Program providing access to resources and support around mental health, financial well-being, family care, elder care, and more.

Relic respectfully acknowledges thatwe'relocatedon the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), andsəlilwətaɬ(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.