Senior UI/UX Designer
Metatheory
Posted 1 year ago
Metatheory Inc. is a technology-driven entertainment company. With a focus on blockchain, we build games, interactive multi-platform stories, and virtual world experiences imagined across innovative story franchise IPs. We are a remote-first dynamic team of builders, developers, and entrepreneurs that include key founding members from Twitch, as well as Emmy and Peabody Award winning producers and storytellers.
Our flagship IP is DuskBreakers, an eccentric, interactive sci-fi saga set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious alien ship (The Dusk) becomes a beacon of hope for humanity. The franchise spans games, video, NFTs, and other media formats.
We’re looking for a senior UI/UX Designer to help us define, shape and create incredible player experiences for both current games in development and future experiences. You’ll be an advocate for our players and community, solving problems, driving innovation, setting a high bar for user empathy, usability and quality and ultimately defining a fun and intuitive player experience. You will be responsible for the end-to-end design process including research, design, prototyping, iterating and testing. You’ll collaborate with a talented team of Producers, Engineers, Artists, Designers, Writers and Product Managers across our games. You’ll report to the Chief Design Officer.
Responsibilities
- Design high quality and consistent UI assets and user experiences across our games from zero to one
- Collaborate with game designers, producers, artists, engineers, product managers, and QA to implement a high quality and intuitive interface
- Help to scale and maintain our Design System working closely with other designers
- Be an advocate for fun, accessible, future-proof UI design and put our players and community first
- Explore how to level up our experiences and innovate; drawing inspiration from broad sources and the design community
- Provide honest and constructive feedback to other designers and teammates to help us foster a culture of openness, trust, and creativity
- Collaborate with product to conduct user research and analysis; incorporate qualitative feedback and quantitative insights to improve the player experience
- Become our game UI/UX design subject matter expert and help us raise the bar for best practices in UI/UX by staying on top of industry trends
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of experience working as a UI/UX designer in the game development industry
- At least two shipped games and experience working across multiple platforms – PC, consoles, mobile
- Strong portfolio that showcases both visual and problem solving skills
- Familiarity with any game engine (Unity, Unreal Engine)
- Proficient in multiple design tools (Adobe Suite, Figma)
- Strong user empathy and a user-first approach
- Able to work well with a team in a dynamic, cross-discipline, and iterative setting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively
- Self-directed ability to manage multiple projects, embrace ambiguity, estimate and meet deadlines and adjust priorities
- Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment. Experience working with remote teams and willingness to work across time zones
- A positive attitude, excellent collaboration, and ability to work and have fun under pressure.
- Passion for gaming, future of online communities and web3
Candidates should be comfortable working in a remote, fast-paced, fluid, and ever-changing startup environment with a globally distributed team. We are currently remote first and will always embrace work from home culture, although we may have some more offices in the future. Candidates should be excited about the future potential of blockchain, but no prior experience is required.
Metatheory is committed to fair and equitable compensation for all of our employees. The salary range for this role is $90,000 - $120,000 annually plus equity. Actual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and specific work location.
We were founded to challenge the ways that we all relate to games and storytelling, and in doing so change how we relate to each other. As an equal opportunity employer, we aim to create a culture of safety and belonging from how we hire to how we build communities.
Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications listed above, but feel you could add a valuable perspective to our organization, we’d still love to hear from you!