Blizzard Entertainment is hiring: Lead UX Designer in Irvine

Team Name:

Job Title:

Lead UX Designer

Requisition ID:

R024667

Job Description:

We Need You

The minions of Hell are growing stronger...

Are you passionate about building a highly talented UX design team and crafting successful user experiences in games?

The Diablo IV team is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Lead UX Designer to come work with us and help us craft something extraordinary for social, customization, and cross-platform experiences.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Albany, NY, or Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with UX/UI Director and key game development stakeholders to ensure all Diablo IV features achieve game goals and improve player experience.
• Coach, mentor, and support your team members to grow and advance.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with game development stakeholders.
• Work as part of Diablo UX/UI lead team, develop Diablo UX/UI maturity, and create a healthy team culture with lead peers.
• Continually evaluate the UX/UI based on feedback from users, user research, game designers, product managers, etc.
• Identify opportunities to improve implementation standards, process, and collaborative workflows.
• Support interface screens implementation using efficient and flexible layout design.
• Review and iterate with your team to ensure features are built to design specifications and presentation/interaction to both look pixel perfect and feel great.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a UX designer, interaction designer, or similar on public products.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a lead or people manager in the design field.
• Experience with UX implementation in a modern engine or platform (e.g., Unity, Unreal, or HTML5).
• Ability to adhere to a project’s existing visual and interaction patterns.
• Experience with designing for multiple control schemes (e.g., Controllers, Mouse & Keyboard, and/or Touch Screen).
• Positive attitude around receiving and providing objective feedback.
• A passion for video games, user experience design, and user interface design.
• A portfolio showing a solid grasp of usability design principles, user flows, and prototypes you have created for UI screens, as well as samples of your visual design ability.

Pluses

• Passion for the Diablo franchise and ARPG genre.
• Interests in nurturing a healthy game community.
• Experience designing interfaces for a variety of platforms and/or control schemes.

And yeah, you will need these things to apply

• Resume.
• Portfolio demonstrating relevant skills. Only online work submissions, please (e.g., website, blog, or online album).
• Willingness to complete a test if requested to do so.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.