Senior UX Designer – Poker

Zynga; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Zynga Poker seeks a Senior UX/UI Designer to shape end-to-end experiences for a live, social, real-time game enjoyed by millions worldwide where clarity, trust, and delight matter every hand played.

You’ll collaborate with product and design teams to define features, create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and UI layouts, and document design decisions. Start-up pace with strong collaboration and game-UX emphasis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design or related field.
• 5 years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI on at least 3 titles.
• A portfolio with relevant industry/personal work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to define features for players.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes and design docs.
• Apply the design process from research through validation.
• Create UI layouts and design functional animation.
• Work with art to align to thematic style and with engineers to ensure feasibility.
• Lead usability testing, market research and heuristic evaluations.
• Mentor team members and set UI/UX standards for the game team.
• Participate in community events, critiques and product reviews.

Skills

UX/UI design

Portfolio

Communication skills

Prototyping

Game UX

Usability

Design documentation

Information architecture

Color theory

UI layout

Prototyping software

AI tools adaptation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HCI/Design

Tools

Figma

Adobe XD

Sketch

Job description

Position Overview:

We are looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer to join the Zynga Poker team. As a Senior Designer you’ll shape the end to end experience for a live, social, real-time competitive game for millions of players globally where clarity, trust, and delight matter every hand played.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with the product and design teams to conceptualize, define, and develop features that yield extraordinary experiences for our players.

• Create user flows, interface wireframes, prototypes, and design documentation.

• Employ the classic design process of defining problems, researching, analyzing, designing, and validating results.

• Create UI design/layouts.

• Collaborate with the art team to define/adhere to a thematic art style.

• Design functional animation for user interactions.

• Participate in the planning and moderating of user testing.

• Conduct market competitor research and deconstructs.

• Conduct heuristic evaluations of internal & external products.

• Partner with technical artists and engineers to ensure designs will work well in the game engine.

• Set examples, guides, and standard methodologies in UI/UX for others in your game team.

• Lead and participate in company-wide UI/UX community events, critiques, product reviews, and feature retrospectives.

What You Bring:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related area required. A combination of education and experience may substitute for a Bachelor’s degree.

• 5 years of experience in the game development industry specializing in UX/UI, having worked on 3 different game titles.

• A portfolio with relevant industry/personal work.

• Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced setting. Be able to rapidly develop new skills and behaviors in response to changing circumstances.

• Ability to present complex ideas to diverse audiences and articulate a convincing point of view.

• Highly proficient written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing.

• Ability to utilize new tools and technologies as they evolve with AI.

• Ability to prioritize tasks, work efficiency, handle time effectively, and complete your work with minimal oversight.

• Proactive self-development and interest in leveling up personal, interpersonal, and craft skills.

• An authority on the UX Design process: Defining usability challenges, researching the problem space, analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, designing appropriate solutions, and validating ideas through testing.

• Experienced expert in designing for games vs. task completion, specifically supporting fun and engagement.

• High degree of competence in assessing and addressing product usability and applying user psychology.

• An accomplished expert with prototyping design software.

• An accomplished expert in user interface layout design, hierarchy, color theory, and information architecture.

• Can consistently produce high-quality visual assets for user interfaces.

What We Offer You :

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site