Senior UI/UX Designer - Data-Driven Card Games

Pipeworks; Eugene (OR); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401K with employer match

Paid Time Off

Relocation

Job summary

Pipeworks Studios in Eugene, Oregon seeks a Senior UI/UX Designer II to be the primary experience designer for a high-profile digital collectible card game. You will define information architecture, interaction models, and player flows for data-driven actions across core gameplay, progression, and metagame systems.

You will translate complex rules and data states into cohesive player experiences, owning UX strategy and production-ready specs while partnering with UI art and engineering.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional UI/UX, product design, or game design experience.
• Contributions to two or more shipped games or comparable production releases.
• Portfolio showing ownership of complex interaction flows and design rationale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end UX for data-driven actions and player flows across core card gameplay, persistence, progression, and metagame systems.
• Translate game design goals, rules, and system data into information architecture, user journeys, screen flows, wireframes, prototypes, and specs.
• Define interaction behavior, content hierarchy, states, transitions, data requirements, and acceptance criteria for implementation.
• Collaborate with design, UI art, engineering, production, QA, and external partners from concept to delivery.
• Lead UX reviews, communicate rationale, and maintain a consistent player experience across features.
• Validate designs through playtests and telemetry, iterating based on findings.
• Establish reusable UX patterns and documentation practices to reduce rework.
• Scope and plan owned work, surface risks early, and guide other designers.

Skills

Interaction design

Information architecture

Wireframes & prototypes

Figma

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven UX

Accessibility & usability

Documentation

Tools

Figma

Prototyping tools

Job description

Pipeworks Studios in Eugene, Oregon seeks a Senior UI/UX Designer II to be the primary experience designer for a high-profile digital collectible card game. You will define information architecture, interaction models, and player flows for data-driven actions across core gameplay, progression, and metagame systems.

You will translate complex rules and data states into cohesive player experiences, owning UX strategy and production-ready specs while partnering with UI art and engineering.