Senior UX/UI Designer

Summary

The New York Times is seeking a Senior UX/UI Product Designer to focus on new game demos, betas, launches, and improvements. The role involves designing, prototyping, and improving game experiences for apps, partnering with various teams, and ensuring journalistic independence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design and UX for digital games
• A portfolio of work that showcases your design process along with finished design work
• Proficient in gameplay affordances, with expertise in creating clear, satisfying, and delightful UI/UX
• Experience working with low-fidelity designs and creating detailed, production-ready work in later project phases
• Experience designing high fidelity UI assets

Responsibilities

• Partner with game designers, engineers, producers, and product management to bring new game ideas and products through all phases of the green light process
• Enhance demos and concepts by creating clear UX, providing satisfying feedback, and designing refined, beautiful UI, resulting in fun, user-friendly games
• Create high-quality, production-ready designs and collaborate with engineers for seamless implementation
• Partner with user researchers and data analysts to identify pain points, develop research-backed hypotheses, and surface opportunities for improvement
• Support high-level game strategy from a visual design and UX perspective, ensuring we're asking the right questions and solving for distinct needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in app design
• Experience in a product design/UX role working on social play component games
• Experience documenting and delivering UI screens and specifications to engineers
• Experience working with less defined constraints and across varying levels of project completion

Benefits

The annual base pay range for this role is between: $116,000 — $140,000 USD