Twitch is hiringSenior UX Designer

Twitch’s community of broadcasters and viewers are at the heart of everything we build. The Subscriptions team create products that help viewers support our creators in a fun and authentic way. 

The Seattle team is seeking a a thoughtful, empathetic, and creative designer that can own big product initiatives. We offer a series of stimulating problems, an environment that's exciting, motivating, fun, and new. You’ll craft experiences that simultaneously delight our viewers and help our creators monetize, all while deepening the relationship between them.

Our ideal Senior UX Designer exhibits a strong passion for building best in class web and mobile experiences using a highly refined set of design skills that range from wireframes to full fidelity design comps and prototypes.

You are involved in every step of the process, from early ideation with Product Managers and Feature Teams to help define the products we build through to working with engineering to ensure the final product meets the highest quality bar. If you succeed, you will have created work that impacts millions of users and played a role in shaping how content creators monetize on the web.

Responsibilities

• Help shape and lead planning and brainstorming sessions with product managers, engineering, and other designers
• Take full ownership of the cross-platform user experience for projects from start to finish, including wireframes, mockups, and prototypes
• Own the production of world-class designs and documentation for presentation to engineers, managers, peer design teams, and senior executives
• Develop and iterate on concepts for Twitch experiences in a fast-paced team environment
• Create customer-centric designs by using data, market analysis, partner feedback, and a deep understanding of our community
• Seek out and surface qualitative and quantitative feedback on your designs and iterate
• Assist in the development and evaluation of user stories and usability studies
• Collaborate with a top-notch engineering team to implement solutions based on your design
• Act as a design leader for our team and represent our team’s design thinking throughout Twitch

Requirements

• 7+ years experience as a UX designer, product designer, or interaction designer
• 4+ years of experience working in a collaborative team and directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Strong portfolio showcasing your past work and process, including prototypes or highly detailed wireframes for complex web and mobile applications
• Fluency in best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, as well as strong knowledge of user experience principles and techniques
• Ability to communicate complex design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization, including executive leadership
• Strong written skills with the ability to present a clear rationale for design decisions

Bonus Points

• A bachelor's degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related UX degree
• Twitch, gaming or live streaming enthusiast
• Demonstrated history of personally acquiring user data (e.g. conducting usability studies, performing user research) is a big plus
• Experience designing products where revenue is a KPI
• Used Figma and Principle
• CSS & HTML knowledge is a plus

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Commuter Benefits
• Amazon Employee Discount
• Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)
• Lunch Served Daily
• Free Snacks & Beverages

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, with more than 100 million visitors per month. We connect gamers from around the world by allowing them to broadcast, watch, and chat with each other. Twitch’s live and on-demand video platform forms the backbone of a distribution network for video game broadcasters including pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in gaming culture, turning gameplay into an immersive video experience. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.

 

 

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